Video collection
Inside the Tango Laboratory
Discover the ideas, people and movement behind our Tango Laboratory. Through conversations with teachers, reflections from Valeria and short dance films, explore how we bring psychology and tango into a shared process of inquiry.
Each video offers a different glimpse into our approach and the questions that inspire our work.
Valeria Zolotco
Psychoanalyst & Founder of Psychology of Movement
Free to watch
Video Exploration · 55 sec
What You Hide from Yourself
There is more to us than the version of ourselves we recognise. Parts of ourselves we have yet to acknowledge can influence our choices, our relationships and the desires we dismiss before giving them a chance.
Video Exploration · 1 min
You’re More Than You Think
“That’s just who I am.” It can sound like self-knowledge. Sometimes it is where we stop looking.
Video Exploration · 31 sec
How Close Is Too Close?
We all have ways of managing closeness. How close can I come? How far can you move away before I follow? Is there room for both of us to want something?
Video Exploration · 19 sec
You Understand. Nothing Changes.
You can explain exactly why saying no is difficult. You know where your fear of rejection began. You recognise the urge to earn love by being useful.
Video Exploration · 31 sec
The Spell Is Broken. Now What?
Sometimes the person is still there, but the spell has broken. The image that once made them the centre of our world has lost its hold on us.
Video Exploration · 2 min
It Takes Two to Tango
It takes two to tango. Yet in a dance, as in a relationship, having two people present does not mean both are creating what happens between them.
Video Exploration · 44 sec
A Dance Disguised as a Story
Much of what I discovered through tango entered my book without being named.
Video Exploration · 38 sec
Why This Person Activates You
Certain encounters awaken possibilities we had almost forgotten were ours.
Video Exploration · 4 min
What If You Can’t Control It?
A conversation with world-class tango teacher Zaur Mamedov.
Video Exploration · 32 sec
You Said Yes. Are You All In?
There is a difference between agreeing to something and choosing it for yourself.
Video Exploration · 40 sec
Who’s Choreographing Your Life?
Sometimes a familiar reaction is already under way before we realise we have a choice.
Video Exploration · 3 min
The Whole Path in Every Step
I entered the competition with one year of tango behind me. Around me were dancers with far more experience. Their experience was real. The idea that it made me less worthy of being there was something I wanted to challenge.
Video Exploration · 5 min
Perfectionism Paralyzes Potential
Changing how we respond, one imperfect step at a time.
Video Exploration · 4 min
Stop Repeating the Cycle. Master Your Energy
New relationship, same pattern? How narrative flexibility helps you change your next step.
Video Exploration · 22 sec
To Become Music
As if it were Aria and Attar.