Argentine Tango class: chair exercise with forward ochos
Argentine Tango class: chair exercise with forward ochos
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Practice with a chair. It is a wonderful way to improve your Tango.
Argentine Tango class: chair exercise
Argentine Tango class: chair exercise
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Practicing by yourself is essential to your Tango.
One of the most complete exercises is the chair exercise. Practice this exercise often. You will achieve great improvement of your dance.
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How to practice and improve your 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 dance technique 14: Boleo – Technical details and exercises
Since our legs move like pendulums, a back and forth movement of the leg without change of weight is possible. We call this “boleo”. This pendular movement of the free of weight leg is more often combined with the spiral movement of the leg described above in relation to pivoting.
- Keeping your free of weight foot inside edge in contact with the floor, pivot back and forth, letting your free of weight leg to pendulum, carefully keeping the details described above about knees and legs.
- Make forward and backward ocho moves and practice the back and forth pendulum at each instance of pivoting.
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Argentine Tango dance technique 13: Boleo
Reverse the rotation of the pivot and return forward with your free of weight leg to the previous position.
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