Better volcadas

A session today dealt with ’sliding volcadas” as well as covering technique for cleaner and better looking figures.
In simple volcadas, taking a diagonal back step after the side step in which you make her rotate helps refinforce good form. I need to remember to make a weight shift from from front to rear [...]

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Contra-rotating boleos, III

In back ochos! Instead of backstepping with the follow’s forward step (out of a single boleo), do a pair of boleos (thus causing the backstep to travel in a path congruent to another back ocho). Awesome. Holding the frame is paramount, as is timing. Low cost glamour. [...]

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Contra-rotating boleos, II

Can also be done coming out of la cruz!

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Lapis and glacis

More on that class yesterday …
I must remember to “complete the circle” – and to always keep that connection and abrazo together; to avoid losing the dance in the step. Remember the secada should find the trailing edge. When placing one leg behind the other for an enrosque type [...]

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Sacadas, a bit…

Finally some success with a basic figure I should have been more fluent in long ago; simple sacadas in the context of molinetas; practice both with and without lapis today with S. in a private lesson. I look forward to making this part of my vocabulary.

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Tango in Nepal?

Well, I didn’t find any, but I did find a cheap (150 rupees, about 2$ U.S.) copy of Gotan Project in the tourist district of Thamel.

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A toast…

…a toast to the ladies of tango, who draw the dance out of us.

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Musicality, yet..

My only class this last day of the Baltimore Tango festival — On a good day, I can process one class well enough to bother — was in musicality. Again I have to reflect on how so much is lost when one does not dance with the music. One [...]

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Frozen Solid

My first exposure yesterday in class to “frozen” boleos and linear boleos. Cool. Need practice. Lots of it. Notes to follow.
General boleo advice from the instructors. Practice with your partner simply doing ochos with good form – when your chest is moving; her hips; vs. versa. Practice the [...]

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Tango therapy

People who know me “in real life” know that I am a Registered Nurse; and thus have an interest in health-related issues….
Isaac and Sharna’s weekly email contains this interesting link about the health benefits of tango dancing. You will need the ability to play streaming audio media in order to hear the [...]

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