{"id":19777,"date":"2026-09-14T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elonga.net\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:24:30","slug":"deborah-tango-musikalitaet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elonga.net\/en\/deborah-tango-musikalitaet\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah \u2013 the art of listening in tango"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b7xmJutnI9U\" title=\"Isabella &amp; Iwan | Deborah | Eros Tango Logo Show 2026 Part 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7xmJutnI9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the first step is born, we listen.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cDeborah\u201d is not a song you simply dance through. It carries a silence that first wants to be filled \u2013 with attention, with breath, with the courage not to anticipate anything.<\/p>\n\n<p>Perhaps you know the film \u201cOnce Upon a Time in America\u201d, the source of this composition by Ennio Morricone. It is the music for the girl who dreams of becoming a star, a famous dancer. She practises her dance in her father\u2019s storeroom, while the four boys who will later become the four famous gangsters watch her through a gap in the wall of the toilet next door. What is so enchanting about the scene is how completely connected she is with herself as she practises \u2013 and yet she senses exactly that she is being watched, and these gazes shape her dance. A very special feeling of longing arises: the dusty light of the storeroom, her awareness of beauty, the yearning looks of the boys.<\/p>\n\n<p>Khatia Buniatishvili\u2019s interpretation heightens this feeling even further. That yearning tension created by the extremely swaying timing and the endless pauses. To connect with a piece of music like this \u2013 to feel the story it awakens in you. Simply by listening, but also by going deeper: what did the composer want to express? What touches me in this music? How can I connect with it \u2013 and express it through my own movement in space?<\/p>\n\n<p>That is why we never begin our workshops with steps. We begin with the music: connect with it first \u2013 then with your dance partner, then with the movement. This order changes everything. What unfolds in this excerpt from the Eros Tango Logos Show 2026 is not a choreography set to music, but an answer to it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Tango in the here &amp; now means: the song decides, not the plan. And exactly this listening \u2013 this awake, curious listening \u2013 is one of the most important skills we want to pass on. Not only on the dance floor.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"elonga-related\">We also start with the music in our <a href=\"https:\/\/elonga.net\/en\/workshops\/\">tango workshops<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/elonga.net\/en\/privatstunden\/\">Private Lessons<\/a>. Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/elonga.net\/en\/paris-mist-tanzlust-vals-milonga\/\">Paris Mist \u2013 joy of dance between vals and milonga<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"elonga-outro\">More about our tango trips: <a href=\"https:\/\/elonga.net\/en\/tangoreisen\/\">elonga.net\/tangoreisen<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bevor der erste Schritt entsteht, h\u00f6ren wir zu. \u201eDeborah&#8220; ist kein Song, den man einfach abtanzt. Er tr\u00e4gt eine Stille in sich, die erst gef\u00fcllt werden will \u2013 mit Aufmerksamkeit, mit Atem, mit dem Mut, nichts vorwegzunehmen. Vielleicht kennst du den Film \u201eEs war einmal in Amerika&#8220;, aus dem diese Komposition von Ennio Morricone stammt. 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