Partnering Technique. How it Works to be in Connection with Someone Else

A lesson full of exercises that will make you understand, feel and train your tango posture or your verticality. Followers, they will help you check the state of your axis after each step you make. Leaders, these exercises will help you work on your own verticality as well as help you have consciousness of your partner’s axis. Plus you’ll find here exercises to become more grounded in your dance, to develop awareness of your center of balance and of your transitions between steps. Tango is a science of its own. And a fascinating one!

A new lesson, a new set of really useful exercises to level up your interaction with your tango partner. They will help you train the frame of your embrace while focusing on leading circular motions; you’ll also focus on your dissociation in pivots which you will create from different parts of your body. Enjoy the process!

Every time you dance, a bit more is added to your expertise as a dancer. Your body's muscles have memory. When you do something over and over again, they remember. So, take advantage of every moment available to you and dance! Even if you’re doing it by yourself in your practice room.

It’s the last lesson in the series that will train your lead awareness in circular motions. In this one you’ll focus on leading and following planeos, and on leading and performing enrosques both for leaders and followers. You’ll learn to feel the difference between the lead of a normal pivot, an enrosque and a planeo. With these tips in your portfolio, there will be no more confusions on the dance floor!

Every time you dance, a bit more is added to your expertise as a dancer. Your body's muscles have memory. When you do something over and over again, they remember. So, take advantage of every moment available to you and dance! Even if you’re doing it by yourself in your practice room.

Since tango is a meeting; since it’s the action of being and communicating without words with someone else, following and leading determine really the success of this encounter. That’s why Carolina proposes more exercises to develop leading and following awareness. How blissful it is to get to feel that you and your partner are transferring your centers of balance at the exact same moment. In technical words it’s this what gives us that flawless feeling of pure connection!

Let yourself be enchanted by a simple, yet effective warm-up, that you can use in order to prepare your body for a performance, a milonga or do it just for fun. What better introduction to a night of dancing?