How to improve your Argentine Tango lesson 2

How to practice and improve your Tango: Lesson 2

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Here you will find more exercises and guidance to learn, practice and improve your Tango.

You must always start with the most important move in Tango: walking.

1- Walk (forward and backward):

For followers:

With partner:

Also with partner:

Here you can watch how walking becomes the dance of Tango:

Some words about the meaning of walking in Tango:

Walking, in Tango, is more than basic: it is what we are.

For some time now we have stopped walking, instead sitting all day long in front of screens, steering wheels, and other people.

That’s why we feel so at home dancing Tango, in good company, creating something with our body that is real and objective, something that ceases to exist immediately after dancing, leaving us in a state of relaxed pleasure and untranslatable wisdom.

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2- Forward/Backward move

For followers:

With partner

4- Backward ochos exercises:

5- Basic backward ocho

Here you can see how to integrate the backward ocho making it become part of your walking:

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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 15: Continuing backward ocho

Continue pivoting the same direction of your established rotation and move your free of weight foot backward, aligned with your lower sagittal plane, your torso torquing according to counter body movement, orienting the center of your chest to the central axis of the couple (backward ocho).

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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 14: Backward ocho

Once you get your legs together, reverse your movement, bringing your free of weight leg back to the starting point in which it was behind you.

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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 13: Forward-side

Pass your free of weight foot, inside edge in contact with the floor, behind the heel of your standing/pivoting foot, and continue to a step to the side around your partner.

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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 12: Forward ocho

After the “collect/inside edge position”, we research in these possibilities: Forward ocho: Pivot more continuing on the same direction of your stablished rotation and move your free of weight foot forward, aligned with your lower sagittal plane, your torso torquing according to counter body movement, orientating the center of your chest to the central axis of the couple.

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