Body Awareness Method® is a pedagogical approach created by Marcela Trapé for teaching about body and movement. Through embodiment and intuition, it invites people to explore, develop, and expand their movement possibilities.

The material began to be organized and documented in 1998 and, since then, it has remained in constant evolution—always in motion and in dialogue with new experiences.

This approach is deeply personal: in the early years, most students—especially tango dancers—would say “I’m going to Marce’s classes” without being able to fully explain what they were about, yet they felt their dancing improved thanks to this training. Over time, this experience was consolidated under the name Body Awareness Method® (BAM).

Later, together with Alberto Catalá, the Tango Body Awareness Method® was developed, where Alberto integrates and contributes with his tango—authentic and rooted—completing the other half of the sphere and achieving full integration.

1)Recognize your limits and transform them.
Learn to sense whether a difficulty comes from a technical challenge (a sequence proposed by the teacher) or from a lack of body awareness. From there, open the door to overcoming both.

2)Discover a natural and elegant posture.
Instead of forcing your body into rigid shapes, cultivate flexibility, lightness, and presence that arise naturally from feeling at ease in yourself.

3)Embrace with freedom.
Release unnecessary tension in the abrazo, allowing movement to flow with greater ease and connection to feel more alive.

4)Flow through spirals.
Use the natural rhythm of your spine and the balance between tension and release to move in spirals without effort, with vitality and flow.
 

5) Free your legs from your hips.
When your legs move independently, they become more responsive—allowing you to integrate with the rhythm of the spine in boleos, to play with speed changes, or to create ganchos with ease.

6)Feel grounded in every step.
Strengthen your balance so that whether standing on one foot or walking in motion, you feel secure and supported from the ground up.

7) Communicate with clarity.
By developing the expressiveness of your body, your intentions become clearer, making communication in the dance fluid and precise.

8) Learn with ease.
Understanding how your body works allows you to learn new sequences more naturally, finding the shortest path regardless of the technical challenge.

9) Shine with presence.
A more expressive body enhances your stage presence. Managing your energy allows you to move fluidly between subtlety and intensity, creating a more powerful impact.