Partnering Technique. How it Works to be in Connection with Someone Else
Tango is a meeting. Tango is to be with somebody else. The more you know about yourself, better you can be with your partner. In the previous collection of lessons, you have explored and connected to yourself in dance. It’s now time to understand how it works to be in connection with someone else, in order to reach that feeling that we’re all looking for; in order to find what we’re actually looking for in tango.
Recommended study time for this collection is 3 weeks.
- 50.06 min
- Embrace
- Ocho
- Elements
- Musicality
- Technique
- Boleo
- Decorations
Axis & Posture. Creating a Strong Presence in the Dance
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!
Music on and Practice Everything we’ve Learned until Now!
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.
Developing Lead Awareness in Circular Motions 3
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!
Music on and Practice your Circular Motions!
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.
More Exercises to Develop Leading and Following Awareness
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!
A Musical Coordination Warming Up Instead of Goodbye
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?