Modern Tango World #9 (Rome, Italy)

All of the sudden, I was full of silence and I was afraid
to finally get in touch with the person that I really was.
In Esquel, while rehearsing for Marsal-Marsal, I meet
Darío again, and through him I meet his teacher, the
awesome actor and tango instructor Cecilia Loffredo.
I just love her; I love her demeanor, her sensibility, her
expression. Some of her workshops take place in the
main salon of Daniel´s house, where I was actually living.
Nevertheless, I did not participaye to her tango lessons
at first. I began assisting in her contact improvisation
lessons, something relatively new to me. It was an
experience I feel connected to, since I had practiced
biomechanics.
No, no words, no brains, only movement. It was in
combination with the landscape, the quietness and cutting
the mind chatter that my healing started. Something
clicked on me. Maybe, it was only a matter of
timing. Suddenly, I felt ready and I started taking tango
classes with Cecilia.
The classes consisted in a two hour theory class, plus
an hour for practicing - almost a real milonga. She told
tango stories, she talked about how tango could help
you be free. She insisted that tango is not supposed
to hurt you, but to be your companion. Remember
she was Darío´s teacher, so we are talking again about
organic movement, about soul, true connections. One
of my biggest fears was the Southern Winter. Winters
in León are pretty funny. It is as if the Earth had a very
hectic sense of humor with our land. Sometimes, you
wear a jacket, but on a typical winter afternoon you
can be comfortable with only a t-shirt and jeans. So, I
was truly worried about how I was going to spend that
Patagonian winter. As it turnrd out, it was actually fairly
pleasant. I guess once you learn to connect with someone
through an experience that is not related to words
but through some kind of universal flow that we just
have to make conscious through our bodies, we actually
are more able to see the true essence of the world
surrounding us. And that connection brings down all
those walls of fear. Tango healed me. It was part of Cecilia
Loffredo´s instruction to spread the strong belief
that tango was made to share, to share in every way
you can imagine/ It´s not a lucrative experience/ If you
receive a gift from tango, just take it and be thankful. I
felt comfortable with the idea of giving because giving
actually makes any human happy. It´s only that most of
us don´t know that yet.
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