NB: If videos are flickering try a different browser - Chrome seems to cause the flicker. General Notes Music Tango Music - for practicing Here's a link to help you better understand tango music for dancing. Songs recommended for practicing... TRADITIONAL TANGOS By the orchestra of Carlos Di Sarli...
ALTERNATIVE TANGOS
TRADITIONAL MILONGAS By the orchestra of Francisco Canaro...
By the orchestra of Edgardo Donato...
ALTERNATIVE MILONGAS
TRADITIONAL VALS By the orchestra of Francisco Canaro...
By Tuba Tango...
By the orchestra of Ricardo Tanturi...
Link to 250 songs The following link will download a fabulous 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: http://www.muraterdemsel.com/250TANGO.zip This link goes to a zip file (little less than a 1 GB file). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 6 Nov 27 Vals - Part 2 of 3 lessons We continued to focus on musicality using your existing repertoire. Here's the improvisation with Petros: Week 5 Nov 20 Vals - Part 1 of 3 lessons Here are the moves we are working on - all moves we have covered in tango, and some in Milonga as well... Week 4 Nov 13 Focus on dancing tango to very rhythmic music. We can take a similar approach to choice of moves as with dancing to milonga:
Avoid slow curvey moves and pauses - e.g. Paradas, wide Ochos. Good songs to practice to are instrumentals by D'Arienzo, such as El Marne, El Internado, El Irresistible, Jueves, La Catrera. Week 3 Nov 6 Milonga - Part 3 Reviewed and linked the following moves:
This video of Sophia and Hosei taken earlier in the year demonstrates the use of C-Step and small steps (side and circular). It's possible to enjoy dancing milonga with very few steps - timing is everything! Here's another improvisation that uses many of the moves taught over these past three lessons: Week 2 Oct 30 Milonga - Part 2 We introduced the cuna (cradle.): Milonga - Part 1 Focused on dancing single and double time using the Square (a.k.a 6 Step Basic). using single time ('Milonga Lisa'): and double time (traspie): |
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