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Managing With Passion: A Tango Subversion in the
Waltz City
Paul Shrivastava
Michelle Cooper
Prepared for the European Group on Organization Studies Annual Colloquium July 5-7, 2007, on Beyond Waltz - Dances of Individuals and OrganizationWirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Passion Flower
Managing is rational, analytical, objective. Little space for subjectivity, passion, intuition (Gagliardi, 2007).
Yet, Passion as “desire and creative flow” is at the root of great human feats (Linstead and Brevis, 2007).
Tango offers a way for cultivating passion (Dey & Steyaert, 2007).
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Goals: Feel Argentine Tango as a vehicle for managing with passion.
Engage Body - Mime Introduction, Icebreaker
Engaging Mind, Body, and Emotions
Tango as a language
OutlineGetting into the body
ConceptsArgentine Tango + Demo
Managing with TangoLesson and Community
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Mime Communication
• Select a partner• Mime Introductions – No words• Stand across (line up), raise
hands• Push, pull, raise, stretch• Sequential, Orchestrated, With
Music• Count 20 (eyes closed)
Milonga Sentimental
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Three Concepts
• Embodied Learning
• Emotional Infrastructure
• Managing with Passion
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Concept 1: Embodied Learning
Cognitive/cerebral learning
To
Holistic engagement of body, mind and emotions
Brings Focus and Clarity
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Light
Music
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Concept 2: Emotional Infrastructure of Organizations
• Organizations have an “emotional infrastructure”, much like they have a physical infrastructure (land, plant and facilities, etc) and a technology infrastructure (info systems, equipment, processes, patents, etc.).
• Emotional infrastructure expresses mood, work climate, culture, goodwill, beliefs, communications, mutual trust and authenticity
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Concept 3: Managing with Passion
• Passion involves danger, risk, creativity, enduring motivation, deep emotional engagement, and extreme actions. Passion engages with body, mind, and emotion.
• “Managing with passion” includes finding your passion, learning passion skills, living passionately in organizations and managing with your body mind and spirit/emotions.
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Argentine Tango as a Metaphor for Managing with Passion
Tango - Demanding physical movements, connection, and musicality, Tango - Simultaneously engages body, mind and emotions. Tango - A dance, a music, a culture and a way of life.
It can be a vehicle for develops skills in improvisation, risk taking, communications, and team work, leadership, community building
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Three formsTango – slow, steady four-count beats, danced on 1 and 3Milonga - faster, simplified stepsTango Vals - 1-2-3 of waltz, but danced on the ones.
“Milongas” The word has three meanings-the dance milonga, - the music you dance the milonga to, - a tango dance party.
You can dance a milonga to a milonga (tune) at a milonga (party). And that's a great thing!
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What Argentine Tango is Not• NOT Ballroom or
International Tango. They are different from head to toe, in posture, embrace, improvisation, movement, balance, steps, and music.
• NOT Stage Tango (also called "fantasia") which is more theatrical and exaggerated, done for audiences.
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Puzzle of Two Bodies, & Four Legs
What is Argentine Tango Personal dance - a “sad thought that you can dance”. It is “thought
in musical motion”, “reflective meditative dancing”.Partner dance – Improvisational, walking, turning, and
embellishments while interpreting music and contrast, a puzzle that gets put together differently
Social dance – socialization and community.
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Summary
Language of physical and emotional communication.
A reflective system of interpreting music and movement.
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Short Tango Demo
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Tango Aahs - Limitless surprises, make it so addicting. The addiction is treatable, but not curable. It takes two - isn't just the man leading and the woman following. Interdependence, teamwork, mutual respect.
Tango
Essence
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Tango Essence 2
No two couples are the same.
No two dances are the same.
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Tango Essence 3 Musicality
• Essence of the dance is in being musical, - stepping to music, moving to the music, - becoming part of the orchestra- emoting with the lyrics
• Chris Bliss Juggling Musicality• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid
=4776181634656145640• http://www.sonnyradio.com/chrisbliss.html
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A culture of self-development,
A social community with mutual responsibilities
Tango Essence 4
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Tango Lessons 1 - Individual
• Connection with self, partners, & community
• Improvisation, Risk-taking• Communication (with eyes, smile,
torso, legs, arms, hands, - body language)
• Accepting diversity, difference, globalization
• Balance – bodily + mental & emotional
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Tango Lessons 2 - Group
• Leadership - Leaders suggest, Followers embellish
• Teamwork, Mutuality, Reciprocation,
• Honoring traditions, & Innovating
• Trust and community
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Tango Embodying Management Concepts
• Improvisation – Realtime choreography
• Trust - Volcada• Risk - Gancho, • Communication – body
and e-motional language
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And Finally Community
• Let’s begin creating one here and now
• 30 Min Beginner lesson– Musicality – listen to the beat– Posture, Hold/Embrace– Walk in-line– Walking to the sides,
• Tango Dancing in Vienna
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Posture and Embrace
• A frame, tilt but on-axis, and balanced
• Awareness of partner comfort, weight, security, trust
• The Tango Gaze
• Open and Close Embrace, follower’s choice
• Flexibility of embrace
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Walking• Line of dance, Traffic responsibilities• Tango Ettiquette – asking, accepting• Tango Vocabulary – steps, turns, pauses,
embellishments• Signalling – Feet/Legs and Torso • Steps – Weight Shifts, in-line steps• Walking on the sides• The Cruzada or Cross
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Tango in Viennawww.tango-austria.com
• Thursday at Tangobar, 21:00 hrs Deutschmeistersaal in der Albertgasse 43, 1080 Wien Tel: 069911985214
• Friday 22:00 hrs, Practica by Tango Almagro, Studio 0.1 (www.tanzstudio.at), Rienoesslgasse 4a, 1040 Vienna Info: 0676/318-94-68
• Saturday, 19:30 hrs Milonga "El Firulete" at Österreichischer Touristenklub, Bäckerstr. 16, 1010 Wien, 1.Stock. Tel. 0664/1736976
• Monday Tango-Salon at the CIU (Centre International Universitaire), Schottengasse 1, A-1010 Vienna.Info: (+43)-664-13-19813
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Tango and Your Brain News Item, November 15, 2005, USA Today
• Dr. Patricia McKinley, associate professor of physical and occupational therapy at McGill University, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurosciences.
• Study compared Tango dancers with walkers among aging adults 50 to 80 years old
• Results• Tango dancers got a boost in self-esteem right away• Both walkers and Tango dancers had better scores on memory tests,
but only the Tango dancers improved on a multitasking test.• Tango dancers gained improvements in balance and motor
coordination.• Explanation: Tango engages the mind, the body and emotions in complex and
changing ways. It has all elements of neurologic rehabilitation: forward and backward movement, side-to-side weight shift, one-legged stance, balanced turns, speed changes, walking in a straight line back and forth, increasing step length in all directions, and turning in a narrow space, traffic management, musicality.
• Tango satisfies the basic requirements for exercise adherence: it's fun, it's a group activity, and it has a tangible goal that can be perceived not only by the dancer, but by family and friends.
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A One-Minute & Arguable History of 100 Years of Tango
• Late 1800s, Originated in Argentina - Gauchos, Spaniards, Italians, Africans, French, Prostitutes, and Gangsters all contributed to its development.
• 1900-20s, Gained acceptance respectability in Paris and then in Europe
• 1930s-45, Golden Age of Tango, Big orchestras, Carlos Gardel
• 1960s, Tango Nuevo, Piazolla and globalization • 1980s, Broadway, Neo/Alternative Tango, and Resurgence in
Argentina
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• Collins, Jim, From good to great. Why some companies make the leap.. and others don’t, Harper Collins, NY, 2001.
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• Fineman, Steven, Understanding Emotion at Work, Sage Publication, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2003.
• Gagliardi,P. “The collective repression of pathos in organization studies” Organization, 14, 3, 2007, pp. 331-338,
• Linstead, S. and J. Brevis,”Passion, knowledge and motivation: Ontologies of desire” Organization, 14, 3, 2007, pp. 351-372.
• Savigliano, Marta, Tango and the political economy of passion, Westview Press, Boulder, CO 1995.
• Shrivastava, Paul Managing with passion. Manual for CAPS 497 capstone course, Bucknell University. 2007.
• www.tejastango.com