Our Fundamentals. Embrace and Walk

Sebastián and Roxana's special embrace raises new questions and brings new answers on couple harmony, beauty and comfort in dance.
What if we add the same muscular tone in arms, chest, neck, palms and fingers? And what happens when we discover a technical definition for the intention? 

This lesson is in Spanish and it has English subtitles. To activate them, please, click on CC in the down right corner of the video, then select English.

Every movement starts in the embrace. But how does it transform from the starting point till the end point? Apart from this, you’ll discover how keeping your body inline can help you a great deal and how stretching has a significant role in achieving a relaxed balance. How to take care simultaneously of your space, her space and the leading? You’ll find the answers to these questions inside this lesson, too.

This lesson is in Spanish and it has English subtitles. To activate them, please, click on CC in the down right corner of the video, then select English.

We do know that connection is not defined by physical contact. By what then? And does sharing axes actually mean sharing our weight? Head and hands – is their movement a consequence or a cause of our entire body moving? Explore this lesson for insights on these matters.

Ocho, Parada, Giro – instead of asking how the embrace changes when performing all these elements, let’s see how our body posture helps maintaining that embrace. Isn’t the heartwarming embrace one of the main reasons why we dance tango?

Let yourself be inspired by watching the maestros performing all the elements in the lessons until now. This is a gift video, which you’ll discover inside this collection of lessons. (Music: orquesta – Tanturi Campos, “En el Salon”)

A lesson that offers detailed explanations on body posture. You’ll see what is the correlation between the upper and lower part. You’ll also discover priceless insights about followers’ forward and backward walk, as well as the most common mistakes and ways to avoid them.

If everything starts in the embrace, where does it finish? And where do the individual and the couple take their strength from? Apart from the answers to these questions, you’ll also discover in this video a beautiful secret regarding the technique Sebastián is using while walking.

A lesson that offers an extended explanation on how Sebastián & Roxana use their embrace to stay connected. Some truly great advice on how to practice “walking”, not only in couple, but also alone. The more we prepare by ourselves, the more we have to offer when inside the couple.

If tango starts in the embrace, the walk is your tool to put your signature on it, it’s what you use to make every movement you have. Find out in this lesson how to harmoniously coordinate these fundamental components you posses. Elements like sacada will only be there to help.

"Try to not think of the embrace as a tango position, but as a sensation. Only after that, bring it to tango.” – this is just a glimpse into the valuable insights you’ll get in this lesson. Tango is not only steps or technique. It’s, first of all, a culture with a strong, specific philosophy behind. You can’t say you dance tango, until you haven’t explored it.

This talk is in Spanish and it has English subtitles. To activate them, please, click on CC in the down right corner of the video, then select English.