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By rusty, December 9, 2009

I have been watching Susana Miller teach tango all week. It is amazing how easy she makes the style of milonguero available to everyone. She is crisp and clear – but then that is what milonguero is about.

It strikes me when someone is struggling within their body, that is when they need milonguero the most. It is more organic and easily accessible because it moves closer to the heart and the rhythms of the heart.

The milonguero style is such a strong foundation, I can see now why I struggled with some movements for so long in the early years of my dancing. If I had had this foundation under my feet back then, I feel like I would have gotten the clarity I reached after five years in only three years of dancing; but how can I ever know.

With this in mind we shall make this available for any and all to discover by teaching it every Thursday night @ 7:PM. Susana has been kind enough to donate a huge part of this past week to teaching me to teach in her style/method of teaching. At the end here she told me she is excited that I will do this because in her words: “You have everything you need to do this, you have the experience, the talent, the techniques and steps to keep the community interested in milonguero.” But of course I don’t call this final, I call this as I move into my ninth year of dancing, a stepping stone to the next decade!

Susana said a milonguero with 60 years of dancing approached her the other day and said: “You know, Susana, this past year, I really think my walking is improving!”

That is and will be me, the perpetual student. I am and will be the perpetual student.