A gift of words, wisdom and insight collected by our good friend Les.

Tango is not steps... it's that blissful moment in between. The most elusive and beautiful part of the dance is the movement within the stillness.

Unless you love tango, you can't dance it. It has to be in your heart. And if it is, you can't do anything else. Juan Carlos Copes.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls, no poems to be printed; nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel really alive. It is not for unsteady souls.

Teachers can only open the door; you must enter by yourself.

Don’t just dance to the music … BE the music!

There are some short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Dance as if no-one is watching;
Love as if you’ve never been hurt.
Sing as though no-one is listening;
Live as if it's heaven on earth.

People don't stop dancing because they get too old; people get too old because they stop dancing.

Bailas como sos (you dance who you are)

Dancing is the nearest you can get to God without using words.

It is not the steps that we do that make a memorable dance, but how we step: musicality and dynamics are what really matter.

Beginners want to learn intermediate steps, intermediate dancers strive to learn advanced figures, whilst truly advanced dancers work on basics.

And the day comes when the risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to bloom.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they're great because of their passion.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.

Don't waste time trying to dance like Pablo Veron. That's his job. Your’s is to dance tango like you.

Musicality is when the dancers' movements appear to create the music - not the other way around.

Fred Astaire was good - but Ginger Rogers did everything he did … backwards and in high heels!

Dancing is dreaming with your feet.

Tango begins with the posture and ends in the legs.

Learn the changes then forget them. Charlie Parker.

The partners that women prefer aren’t thinking about themselves, they just surrender to the music and to the pleasure of dancing with a woman in their arms.

We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness in which we put movement … is the tango. Carlos Gavito.