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Sep 16, 2020 · Colgadas vs Single Axis Turns: a fascinating journey into the conquest of gravity in Tango! Finally master the mighty Colgadas and their nemesis the Single Axis turn, understand their differences, how to achieve stability, and practice to create that out of axis effect.
Mar 3, 2015 · Keeping your axis, maintaining your balance and having the right twist, dissociation in your body is hard but with practice this can be greatly improved. The following video of Jorge Torres helps with this. The exercise strengthens muscles even in the deeper layers.
OFF AXIS BUNDLE: master all these mighty off axis movements! ABOUT your pack: each lesson includes two parts, the first for beginners and improvers, and the second for intermediates and up. Intermediates, we recommend you watch the first part as a solid introduction.
- Giving You Keys to Adapt Your Dancing
- I. Tango
- II. Vals
- III. Milonga
The trick is that there are no new steps to learn – it’s only a matter of changing the quality of your dancing. Our goal in this blog post is that you understand how you can adapt the steps you learn in your tango classes to the vals and milonga rhythms. So, we will focus on: 1. The type of movements each rhythm suggests 2. How to step 3. What you ...
Walking:
One of the key elements of the tango rhythms is the walk. The tango rhythm is asking us to walk a lot. We ‘show off’ with our walking:grounded, slow, making sure that we unroll the foot and gradually transfer the axis from one leg to the next.
Circular vs. Linear movements.
Also, in the tango rhythm, we mix circular and linear movements. Linear movements are movements that make us travel across the dance floor, such as the walk, the cross, the ocho cortado… We dance them when the music is choppy, rhythmical. When the music is soft (for example with the violin, singer), we do circular movements: giros, half-giros, ochos, planeos…
Long pauses
The tango rhythm is also inviting us to pause a lot (a pause is when we are on one foot, decorating or slowly collecting with the free leg): in the walk, in the parada, after a pivot, etc…. The pause is a wonderful moment for connection. We, the dancers, want tolisten to the phrasingin the music to hear the moments of suspension, of pausing, and take the time to fully enjoy them.
Circular movements
By comparison with the tango rhythm, there is less walkingin the vals. The music is inviting us to do circular rather than linear movements: the vals is the time to play with the turns, and show off your beautiful giros! So, play with the girosin the close and open side of the embrace, the cross-system with ochos forward and backwards, etc.
Flexible axis:
With all these turns, you can play with a flexible embrace. Keep a close embrace for the walk, and release the embrace when the woman goes back to her axis (during the giros or ochos for example).
Fluidity/Short pauses
The Vals rhythms has much less pausing than the tango rhythm. So, it suggests a lot of fluidity, and movements that do not require pausing and big embraces. For example, we keep the paradas, the sandwichitos, the long decorations…. for the tango rhythm!
Small steps
In milonga the steps are much smaller than for both the vals and tango. The embrace is ‘tighter’ than for the other rhythms, which allows only for small steps. The milongarhythm is so sharp that if we don’t do smaller steps and a tighter embrace, we can lose the connection.
Simple steps
The milonga is so quick and sharpthat it doesn’t allow for complicated movements and sequences. A lot of dancers think that milonga is ‘too difficult’ whereas actually it is quite the contrary: keep your steps simple and your movements sharp, and you have a milonga dance!
Linear and sharp movements
In the milonga, we avoid the soft, fluid circular movements of the vals. Our movements are linear and choppy. The ‘basic 6 steps’ and ‘basic 4 steps’ of tango – a simple combination of forward, back and side steps – work well for the milonga rhythm.
Apr 7, 2021 · The tango is a dramatic, passionate progressive dance which is danced to staccato, marching tango music. Learn more about the music of the tango and find out 10 songs you can tango to.
An Intro to Technique - Honoring Axis. If you take your time, and you hold on to a counter (or a ballet bar), then it is usually not too difficult to get over the ball of your foot. If you're in a milonga (tango dance) and you take a step in the middle of a combination and suddenly need to stop, it's usually pretty hard.
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Mar 23, 2013 · Axis is a critical component of proper tango technique regardless of whether the axis is vertical or maintained at a controlled angle. Anything that compromises our or our partner's axis makes the dance physically much more challenging.
