Ingredients. Tango Elements
In order to prepare a great meal, you need the right ingredients. For a great dance, you need the right ingredients, too. Be sure, you’ll get them in this collection of lessons.
Recommended study time for this collection is 7 weeks.
Bloque
A full class about the blocking steps using at first the technique of ocho forward.
Music: Destino de flor (orchesta Carlos Di Sarli, singer Roberto Florio).
Amagues for Men
Amagues for men - repositioning the legs while maintaining the center.
Music: Bien Frappe (orchesta Carlos Di Sarli, singer Roberto Rufino).
Amagues. Detailed Technique and Complex Movements
On amagues as a way to play with intention. Leaders will learn to avoid the changing of weight for their partner.
Music: Volvamos a empezar (Alfredo De Angelis y su Orquesta Típica, singer Oscar Larroca).
Mordidas
One secret of this element refers to knowing how to play with distances – go away but come back style. You'll learn how to do it in this lesson.
Music: Gitana Russa (Ricardo Malerba Y Su Orquesta Típica, singer Orlando Medina).
Barridas 1
Technical details on changing shapes and teasing. Barridas are about connection and understanding the playful attitude.
Music: Gitana Russa (Ricardo Malerba Y Su Orquesta Típica, singer Orlando Medina).
Barridas 2
Highlights on some technical aspects that will help you understand better, the idea of the connection between the free legs.
Music: Gitana Russa (Ricardo Malerba Y Su Orquesta Típica, singer Orlando Medina).
Barridas 3
More than in other cases, in order to do a barrida, it's necessary for both partners to acknowledge it. Once you do this, the rest is magic.
Music: Gitana Russa (Ricardo Malerba Y Su Orquesta Típica, singer Orlando Medina).
Barridas 4
Bending a little bit the knee, meeting the follower’s leg on the inside and sometimes on the outside – practice, in order to see what makes the difference.
Music: Gitana Russa (Ricardo Malerba Y Su Orquesta Típica, singer Orlando Medina)
The Sandwich
You'll learn three main exits: side, side, back, while always taking care of the space you are taking and giving.
Music: Cada día te extraño más (orchesta Miguel Calo, singer Raul Iriarte).
Sandwich - Loopings
A lesson on how leaders and followers should work together with the shoulders, legs and arms for the continuity of the movement to come by itself.
Music: Cantemos corazón (orquesta Carlos Di Sarli; singers Roberto Florio, Jorge Duran).
Sandwich - Mixing Directions
A lesson about a movement that will help you when there's no space on the dance floor, available for larger structures. It will answer most of your questions related to the sandwich figure.