Good habits for tango dancers
Spotify Check out Sophia's spotify lists: Tango (Trad) Best for practicing musicality - walking to single, double and half time. Tango (Neo) contemporary songs (good for practicing technique) Link to 250 songs The following link will download a collection of 250 of the most popular songs (tango, vals and milonga) played in milongas around the world! Focus for now only on the tangos. Also focus on instrumental songs as opposed to vocals as these are easier to find the beat. Di Sarli is one of the better orchestras to start with: 250 songs download This link goes to a zip file (little less than a 1 GB file). Here's a link to help you better understand tango music for dancing. Week 7: starting March 18 Reviewed all steps from previous weeks: Plus we practiced:
Please look again at videos from Week 1 for improvisation and linking of Level 1 moves. Week 6: starting March 11 Reviewed all steps from previous weeks:
Week 5: starting March 4 Reviewed:
Introduced: How to turn Forward Cross Steps into Back Cross Steps (also meaning how to turn Forward Ochos into Backward Ochos) Week 4 : starting February 25
Here's a preview of what we're covering in Week 5 - converting Forward Ochos into Backward Ochos. This is achieved by not pivoting at the end of each step: Week 3 : starting February 18
Leaders: Note the first two steps of C-Step and Parallel Cross are the same. As with the C-Step the first side step, due to dissociation, causes the follower to under-step the leader. Leaders and Followers: The Parallel Cross and C-Step introduce the concept of 'Inside and Outside' positions. Note that when the follower is lead to Outside position her back leg (left leg) has stepped slightly to her right - to stabilise behind her front leg, crossing to the right of, or behind, her spine). In Inside position her back leg (left leg) has stepped in a straight line behind her - parallel to her front leg and not behind or crossing to the right of her spine. Two backwards steps (follower) in Outside position leads to the Cross. The first Outside position step is the Leader's right leg stepping forward (Follower's left leg stepping back). The second outside step is the Leader's left leg stepping outside (Follower's right leg stepping back). Week 2 : starting February 11
The first side step of C-Step, which requires dissociation, can be described as a 'Blocking' step: The leader angles his torso to his right to lead follower to under-step him. The follower angles similarly to her right (to connect with her partner 'heart to heart') as she steps to the right. Improvisations in Week 1 To give you an idea of what is covered in our Beginner and Intermediate series : North Sydney Redfern Glebe Improvisation in Week 2 - focusing on just Level 1 moves: Drill for practicing between classes: Homeplay
Week 1 : starting February 4 The focus was on:
The move introduced was the 'C Step': We worked on musicality, walking to single time and pausing. We used the count 1-2-3-4 walking on the strong beats of 1 and 3. Counting can also be 'I and 1 and...' 1 here is for the strong beats of 1 and 3 while 'and' is for the soft beats of 2 and 4. Here are some end of class improvised displays from previous terms this year. Display from this term to be uploaded shortly. End of class displays: |
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