Tango Therapy UK

WHAT IS TANGO THERAPY

Music, Movement and Dance Therapy are powerful and recognized alternative techniques that can help to improve your health and also be applied as palliative care.

Tango Therapy is a therapeutic technique that uses the Tango dance and Tango music (such as candombe, milonga, tango and criollo waltz) integrated and/or combined with special exercises as a palliative therapy or to prevent diseases framed in a particular methodology and delivered by a trained expert with special skills

Because of the combination of this particular music, the capacity of creation in the tango dance, the tango dance as an exercise, and the philosophy of the encounters in Tango it is possible to apply this technique:

• To help people to live better as a human being in connexion with themselves, as a part of a society and with its interaction in a couple.
• To discover and solve some conflicts.
• To increase self esteem
• To improve the body image.
• To overpass conflicts and fears
• To enhance the relation between partners.
• To improve body postures and balance
• To improve aerobic capacity and coordination
• To help in the treatment of some cardiac diseases, hypertension, also Alzheimer and Parkinson’s
• To help in the treatment of depression, anxiety and social phobias.
• To prevent physiological deficiencies and to delay the natural process of ageing
• To maintain a healthy brain in old age

However, not all tango classes can be included in this therapy. As there are many ways to learn and teach tango, it is important to understand that not all the classes will be applied.

Tango Therapy needs to be led by a Teacher / Therapist with experience in understanding the meaning of communications between the participants.

Also not all Tango dances will be applied in Tango Therapy. We need to work, from the beginning with steps and structures that are important for memory and postures.

Then from here to continue with improvisations and the creativity of each person. In addition, it is necessary to separate Tango, Milonga and Criollo waltz as different dances because each of them has different meanings and will be used in different interpretations / exercises in the classes.