The English Versions of My Articles on Tom Tabaczynski’s “Somatic Milonguero”
Over the past few days, I have published several articles dealing with Tom Tabaczynski’s book Somatic Milonguero, his criticism of tango teaching, and his ideas about motor learning and learning tango without formal instruction.
Since I also published English versions of these texts, they have begun to take up quite a lot of space on my blog. I have therefore decided to collect them here in one place. The individual articles will remain available through the links below.
• Thoughts on Tango Teaching | Part 63
Somatic Milonguero by Tom Tabaczynski – Is Teaching Unnecessary, or Does It Need to Be Fundamentally Different?
This was the starting point of my examination of Tabaczynski’s criticism of conventional tango teaching and of the central question raised by his book: Is teaching really unnecessary, or does it simply need to be organised in a fundamentally different way?
• If We Don’t Have to Think While Dancing – How Do We Learn It?
An Addition to Tom Tabaczynski’s Theory of Motor Learning
This article looks more closely at the relationship between conscious learning, motor learning, automatisation and the fact that experienced dancers no longer have to consciously think about every movement while dancing.
• Learning Without Lessons?
A Practical Test of the Learning Model in Tom Tabaczynski’s Somatic Milonguero
Here I examine Tabaczynski’s learning model from a practical teaching perspective. What can actually be learned without instruction, and at what point do structure, feedback and guidance become useful or even necessary?
• Save Yourself the Trouble of Reading This Book!
Much Ado About Nothing
My considerably more critical conclusion after examining the book and its arguments in greater detail.