Tango Tips by the Maestros

I am totally blown away by the quality, quantity, and diversity of the magnificent advice in this book!

I urge you to visit Amazon's "Look Inside" for the paperback edition. Check out the Table of Contents. Visit any pages. I feel certain that you will find, as I did, that the writing here feels like a warm, comfortable tango embrace.

This is NOT a book to read through. This is a book to dip into from time to time, to find inspiration, to find comfort, to help to understand. I first read the Introductory material, and Dimitris has such a warm, helpful way of writing. …

How did I keep myself focussed on tango throughout the endless lockdowns of the COVID pandemic? Although I could not attend classes, festivals or milongas, I could read as many books on tango as I could get my hands on. Two of the most important of these were Dimitris Bronowski's Tango Tips by the Maestros, and its companion volume, Tangofulness.

These books encouraged me to think about tango as a deeper artform and as a way of life. …

It would take me years to find out even quarter of what is written in these pages, but now I just hold in my hands a whole book, full of priceless advice, experience and wisdom of Maestros. I was taking my first steps in tango when I bought this book drawn to desire to learn more about it, take a look through the slightly opened door to the great teachers and maybe hear the words they said. Instead of this, the door opened wide and I was greeted with warmth, sincerity and open-handedness of amazing dancers. So many great tips. So many valuable thoughts about tango. So much help, supportive and useful information. …

There is a lot of useful information in the collaboration of Argentine Tango Maestors/Maestras collected by Dimitris Bronkowski. Although there is some overlapping information they all reinforce the importance of Axis and Balance. I am a fan of Helaine Treitman as well as Detlef Engel and Melina Sedo and their chapters did not disappoint. I am a new fan of Pablo Gomez and Ludmila Srnkova. If you watch Ludmilla's videos on the Readers Online Environment (a great benefit when you buy the book) regarding the step after the sandwich Pablo is hilarious. They contributed some technical information about musicality which is very useful. …

As a new tango dancer, I thought that this book would be about technique. It is so much more, and I feel lucky that I choose this as my first book to read on the subject. It is about the philosophy, psychology and inner journey of the dance with lots of factual elements on history, music, anatomy interwoven throughout. In short, it explains the zen quality if the dance, and I understand now why I became addicted at my first class.

I was living in a tango desert with basically no good teacher who could help me progress, so I turned to the Internet searching for tango books-honestly, before, I did not believe books could help me with dance, but after reading this, it equipped me with certain angles of understanding that later struck me during actual dance-ah, it is what this means!

The title tells you exactly what to expect, tips from maestros. These tips will undoubtedly be subject matter for many tango workshops. The maestros write with a clarity that allows their insights to shine, resulting in a text that is both informative and easy to read.

Tango is much more than just a dance and there are so many paths and viewpoints on how to grow into it as a dancer. What didn't speak to me in this book may well be "gold' to you. Be sure to check out the online portion as there's a lot of information there as well.

Very well written book, didn't expect that a book could be helpful to dance. I'm a Tango teacher and there are interesting tips for dancing and teaching.

It's structured in little chapters, that may be interesting for non-readers tangueros.

A bailar!

All I can say is: just buy it! I found the answer to that puzzle piece I had been looking for so long and I can't imagine that there will be someone who won't find at least one precious sentence to him in that book.