What if the secret of Argentine tango isn't in mastering steps - but in learning how to feel?
When the Step Becomes the Dance is a gentle, encouraging guide for anyone beginning their tango journey. Written from one beginner to another, this book shows that you don't need talent, confidence, or years of dance experience - you only need curiosity, patience, and the willingness to take one meaningful step at a time.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of practice, insight, and discovery, Milos Ruzič takes you from your very first movements to the freedom of improvisation. You'll learn how to build balance, intention, grounding, connection, and musicality - the essential skills that transform steps into a dance and a dance into an experience.
This is tango explained with clarity, kindness, and simplicity. No complicated terminology. No pressure to perform. Just a practical path to understanding how the dance works and why it works - and how it can open a new sense of presence, confidence, and connection in your life.
In this book, you will learn:
how to take your first tango steps with confidence
how to understand tango posture, axis, embrace, and balance
how to connect your movement with your partner and with the music
how improvisation really works - even for complete beginners
simple practice routines that build real progress
how to enjoy tango from the very first lesson
Whether you are brand new to Argentine tango or returning with fresh curiosity, this book helps you experience the dance as more than movement - as communication, emotion, and shared presence.
About the Author
Milos Ruzič is an amateur tango dancer, tai chi practitioner, and the 2018 European amateur chess champion in standard chess (ELO Coaching by Astrology (www.coachingbyastrology.com), where he blends 30 years of astrological research with NLP coaching to develop the Astro Breakthrough Coaching(TM) method. Professionally, he is a researcher and developer at Krka, d. d., with over 25 years of scientific innovation, leadership experience, and more than 25 patents.
If you can take one step, you can dance. And if you can dance, you can grow.
