An innovative system that enables you to systematically explore tango situations and combinations.

What it is

The game is a structured system that enables you to hack the operating system of tango, facilitated by a physical card deck of 24 playing cards, each embedded with one aspect of the deep structure of tango.

With practice you’ll be able to use it to generate chance combinations of tango elements to discover sequences you’ve never done before, breaking your habits and ruts and also possibly your brain — and opening up your practice.

Now, when someone asks “what are you working on,” you don’t have to waffle or make something up. Just pull out your deck and start playing!

How it works

How it works: once you familiarize yourself with the code, you use the cards to generate novel tango sequences using chance-based methods.

A 5-step sequence can reliably provides enough material to investigate for an hour+ of deep practice.

This system has the capacity to generate the following:

• For a three-step sequence: 1008 possibilities (504 per system)
• For a five-step sequence: 19,400 possibilities

Important: Prerequisite

To play the Tango Fairytale Game, you need to understand one basic principle of nuevo analysis: the difference between an open step and a crossed step. Without this you’ll be pretty lost. Also, to play it well, you’ll need to be able to do at least 180 degree pivots nicely.

Play with a partner

The simplest way to start:

1. Start by removing all the cards except the five yellow cards with orange boxes.
2. Choose two at random, and decipher them, and then dance them.
3. Repeat this until you’ve tried out a several different two-card combinations.
4. Now choose three cards at random. Learn this as a sequence.
5. Do your three-card sequence twice in a row (which means you do it on both sides.)
6. Follow a similar process with the four orange-boxed blue cards.

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💫 Some people even find that playing the Tango Fairytale Game have found that its strange rigor turns your tango practice into a lucid dreamlike experience, yielding a maximum euphoria among serious practitioners.

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Go deeper

Run a mini private playtest practica with friends

Use it to make your public practica more of a practica

Help your school or club liberate creative potential

Youth Project

If you are a young person under 24, or if you run a club or any kind that serves youth, and you are interested in bringing the Tango Fairytale Game to this audience, Yay! We want to support you 100%. Contact Mitra for discounts on decks for youth clubs and options for support in getting up and running.