Our Mission
To provide therapeutic benefit, improve quality of life, spark joy, and promote social connection through Argentine tango.
Our Vision
A world where the power and beauty of Argentine tango is harnessed to enhance physical, emotional, and psychological well-being for people of all ages and abilities.
Our Values
Physical touch, social engagement, and aesthetic experience are core aspects of being human. Argentine tango invites us to embrace these and to become more whole.
Argentine tango is a social partner dance based on hugging another person and walking together. Because its essence is simple, tango is accessible to people of all ages and doesn’t require specialized physical training. Tango is improvised; dancers learn and share a movement vocabulary, but much like life, the dance emerges in the conversation between partners in the moment. Tango is a moderate-intensity activity that offers practice in countless real-life skills, including many that prove challenging for people with PD and other conditions.
Tango offers a safe environment for experiencing physical touch and forming meaningful social connections and community. As a cultural phenomenon that encompasses dance, music, and poetry, tango invites lifelong learning, a connection to the wider world, and neurological engagement scientifically proven to boost happiness and well-being.
A Time for Tango
The United States is a country with an aging population. We are suffering an epidemic of loneliness and isolation that has only grown since the onset of COVID-19. Many of us are deprived of physical contact, and we receive cultural messaging that treats the body, the senses, and the arts with suspicion. Too often, we disregard the social determinants of health outcomes in favor of medical intervention and pharmaceuticals. We need creative, cost-effective solutions to supporting quality of life at every stage, but especially as we age, alongside the technological advancements and scientific discoveries that have made our longer lives possible.
Tango Therapy Project – Non-Discrimination Policy
Effective Date: August 29, 2024
The Tango Therapy Project (“TTP”) believes that all people have the right to volunteer, work, and participate in TTP’s programming in an environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination, harassment based upon a protected characteristic, including sexual harassment, and retaliation. This policy includes, but is not necessarily limited to, discrimination or harassment based on a person’s age, race, color, disability, national origin or ancestry, political affiliation or belief, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), genetic information, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and applies to all volunteers, employees, applicants for employment, interns, contractors, participants, and persons otherwise engaging with or performing services for TTP.
Any individual who is subjected to or witnesses possible unlawful discrimination, harassment, including sexual harassment, or retaliation is encouraged to promptly report the incident to Tango Therapy Project board member, Huaou Yan, (huaouyan@gmail.com). All complaints will be taken seriously and investigated as needed, and appropriate remedial action will be taken, if necessary.
Retaliation in any form against any individual who makes a complaint under this policy or who participates in good faith in an investigation of a complaint made pursuant to this policy is strictly prohibited and should be reported under the procedure outlined in this policy.