'Travel Sketches: the illustrated observations of a tango dancer in Buenos Aires'
 by JAN RAE  published 2019 (85 pp./40 full colour plates/ descriptive prose/$25)
this book is available for purchase 
contact janrae7@gmail.com

'Drawing the Dance 'workshops with Jan Rae
these are experimental and experiential workshops designed for tango dancers or for non dancers
each workshop is an original concept based on movement and connection. See www.janrae.com.au
contact janrae7@gmail.com         

Jan started dancing tango in 2000 and she travels to Buenos Aires each year 
to deepen her understanding of tango and to train with some of the best teachers there.
In 2007 George and Jan won the Australian Salon Tango Championships and
represented Australia in the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires
She started organising regular practicas and milongas in Byron Bay in 2006
and has been teaching regularly since 2010 

​THE ART OF TANGO
..the following words describe something of my ideas about tango as a creative endeavour in my teaching and in my painting...
"Dance is pure creativity.
Each step can be deconstructed into many parts, and each movement offers freedom into the unknown by insisting on spontaneous or considered choices.  It is this limitlessness that is felt as joy.
Tango can be seen as a moving meditation. In dance, aspects of time, form, direction and space are further enhanced by the connection with music.
And it is the timelines - the stretching, overlapping and bending of visual and aural rhythms - that is so intriguing.
It is part of the human condition to express ourselves through dance and movement and there is a spiritual aspect to the connection between body movement and music; especially when we share the experience with another person.
I find this a fascinating concept and, as a visual metaphor for life and relationships, an endless source of inspiration"
 Jan Rae 
​ www.janrae.com.au