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November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 Dr. Mary Lourdes Silva

6 Things Good Dancers and Writers Typically Do

In tango, it’s the difference between dancing the tango of Chicho Frumboli or Moira Castellano or dancing the tango burrowed deep in our body where the sorrow of yesteryear surfaces and follows each shallow breath.

November 13, 2019 Dr. Mary Lourdes Silva

Critical Response Process: How to Get the Feedback You Need as a Writer and Dancer

In tango, questions from our dancer partners are almost never neutral. “Why did you step there? Why didn’t you bend your knee? Why didn’t you boleo?” Lerman writes, “When defensiveness starts, learning stops” (qtd. in McCarroll 245). When two peers are involved, it is inevitable for egos to clash or for one person to feel demoralized.

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