Tango Is About Letting Go

Tango Argentino
Written By Raffaele Rufo

Tango is tough

because it is about recognizing and being recognized.

It is though to find your tango

because the mind is not used to follow the body,

because it is hard to find a connection

when you are not listening.

Tango is about letting go of judgment

so that we can improvise together.

It is what we do when we stop thinking about what we are doing.

Every move is a fine balance between freedom and control.

Tango materialises in the embrace.

You give and you take, it is a fine balance.

Tango is real,

it goes as far as your courage to take off your mask

and make the first move towards someone else.

Even a stranger is no longer a stranger.

 

 

R U F O 

Raffaele Rufo

Raffaele Rufo (PhD) is a dance artist, a facilitator of artistic and cultural processes, and an independent scholar committed to community and land regeneration. His artistic background is entwined with the Australian ensemble ‘Liminal Theatre and Performance’ and with the Argentine Tango dance, which he later combined with Contact Improvisation, Body Weather and somatic movement. After focusing his performance practice on Melbourne’s public urban spaces, Raffaele has explored the questions of roots and exile in Milan and Rome through the ecosomatic relation with the nonhuman and matter. His ongoing and recent creative projects include ‘Rituali di Pa(e)ssaggio’, ‘Danced by the Tree’, ‘Return of the Centaurs’, ‘Ecokinetics’ and ‘Ecosomatic Persephone’. He is co-founder of the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA) and collaborates with Teatro del Lido di Ostia as artistic director of ‘La Selva’ Residency. Raffaele holds a Phd in dance and performance from Deakin University and his research has been published in academic journals and book collections.

www.raffaelerufo.com
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