The Taste of True Joy. Milonga

Is the milonga music more complex than the tango music? In this lesson, we’ll be listening to milonga beats, focusing on the stronger ones and understanding that the complexity of rhythm and music is actually the essence of its inspiring force.

In this lesson you’ll learn how to count 1-2-3 in many languages… On a serious note now, changing the focus from 1-3 to 1-2-3 is an important step in understanding the milonga music and in incoporating the rhythm in your body. After getting confortable with the count, we’ll move on to practicing how to administrate the space for traspie.

A great tool to prepare your body for the milonga rhythm is combining simple milonga steps with traspie. This is the lesson that will be your guide in this quest. And of course your complete involvement is required. The more you practice, the more you get used to the milonga rhythm and vice versa.

We already know that constant practice is what transforms us in masters of joy and play, masters of milonga that is. For a more intense practice of your milonga, just incorporate traspie in your exercises, as often as possible. In this lesson you'll find a fun and effective way of doing it.

A strong review of technical details from previous exercises will open for you the door to using circularity in milonga steps. In this lesson, the emphasize is not only on the milonga specific steps and music, but also on how individual posture and embrace help us in experiencing traspie to its fullest!

We'll start with an exercise in order to prepare the ground for introducing a little sacada in our milonga steps. Once again, a proper axis, individual posture, change of weight done right is what’s going to ensure that sacada will only intensify the feeling of joy in our dance!

When you enter a game that you like, you want to play it again and again. You become addicted. In the good way. Practice the sacadas, make them circular, reverse all these movements. Everything on milonga rhythm of course. And you’re on your way to becoming not only the ultimate milonga player, but also winner.

You can think of milonga as of the "need for speed" of tango. In this lesson, you’ll see and exercise the way to get to move fast and juicy on the dance floor. And more than that, your dance will become even more astonishing if you get to the point where you speed up only in the essential moments. These exercises and sequences will help you to do so.

This lesson brings to you a combination of steps powered by play, lots of play. Thinking in pivots, stepping together and having each other as the main focus, will only make the game more spectacular. Remember though, not every time winning is everything. But the will to win, while offering your best to your team mate, is.

After having played a lot, practiced that is, the milonga rhythm should be already feeling at home in your body. Now it’s the time to learn how to navigate the pista, on the same crazy fun milonga steps. Of course!

Milongas are more fun and juicy when lots of ochos are involved. So this lesson will offer you one more combination with ochos, for both the follower and the leader. And since you’ll be doing them at the same time, you’ll be having even more fun. The rhythm won’t slow down either. This will be a major boost to your milonga skills!

Once you're confortable with quick ochos on the same spot, we'll move on to building entire imaginary lines of ochos. On milonga rhythm. Guided by this lesson. Wait until it begins, you’ll be unstoppable!

The thing is, you should never stop looking for new combinations of steps in your dance. Because there are lots of them. In milonga, too. This lesson will offer you one more combination with ochos – a hidden treasure that will astonish not only your dance partner, but also everyone watching.