Bliss: A Practical Guide to Tango Euphoria

Bliss offers ideas, perspectives, and exercises to help you dance more, dance better, and enjoy your tango to the fullest. It’s written for both leaders and followers who are learning or dancing Argentine tango socially—whether you’ve been dancing for five days or five years.
The book touches on tango technique, focusing particularly on stability and axis. Aleksey highlights the concept of spirals, which manifests in many subtle ways throughout the dance. Understanding and applying these principles can help you improve the technical aspects of your tango.
Perhaps even more importantly, Bliss suggests that the path to truly enjoying your experiences—whether in dance or in life—leads through healing. Social tango can be a powerful catalyst on your healing journey, revealing precisely what you need to work on. The author aims to offer perspectives and insights that enrich both your dance and your personal life.
There are countless paths to euphoria in social tango, and Bliss explores many of them in depth. But no matter which roads you take, reaching tango bliss requires a specific combination of psychological and physiological skills. By unpacking and studying each one—and by providing practical exercises to help you improve—Aleksey invites you to identify your blind spots and discover precisely what to work on, in order to begin experiencing tango bliss systematically.