Reflection on Tango Unity Project
by Ivana Stankova (participant)

Life was never meant to be understood, it was meant to be felt” is my definition of tango. Life is a game of improvising, isn’t it? Tango can be your tutor and lead you to your best way of life. Simply, trying to control everything causes an immerse amount of stress and anxiety in our ways of living. Tango- one move at a time, follow the flow and just be! The only way to live a happy life is to just be, because happiness, at the end of the day, is a decision. And if i had to use only one word to describe this presence is serendipity
[the fortunate finding of valuable or agreeable things by chance, or an aptitude for making such discoveries]
Communication is where the foundation lays, something that’s always in the back of my mind when I’m the follower, is the fact I learned once I just started. The men who are usually the leaders, they firstly learn to be the follower. This brings us to another aspect of life and that is all about communication. The definition stated “listen to understand, not to respond” is more than relevant. In life instead of thinking about what you’re going to say next while you’re having a conversation, you should just simply listen to the other person to really understand, and what you’re going to say comes naturally. The conversation that way is far more meaningful. On the other hand in tango, instead of thinking of the next step or ornament you’ll do, when you’re the follower, just understand what the body language of the other person speaks and your next move comes naturally! So tango is life, life is tango. You can find a lot of correlations and learn the one from the other. I heartily recommend to all the people in the world to at least try and see if they find themselves in tango. Or don’t, it’s a trap. Cause once you start you’ll never want to go back!