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.

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248.40 min
Ocho
Elements
Barrida

El Ocho

How much is actually the lead? Why and how do we pivot? How do we incorporate one of the most used tango elements in our dance? The purpose of this lesson is to answer all these questions.

Music: Bahia Blanca (Carlos di Sarli).

16.24 min Ocho

Ocho Cortado 1

Technical details for ocho cortado. On body memory in dance and creating the circumstances for it to happen. Music: Paciencia (Juan D'Arienzo orchesta and singer Alberto Echagüe).

13.01 min Ocho

Ocho Cortado 2

On three different forms of ocho cortado for the ladies. Now you'll have the chance to play in a new way in your dance! Music: Paciencia (Juan D'Arienzo orchesta and singer Alberto Echagüe).

14.20 min Ocho

Ocho Cortado – Insights and Variables

A lesson with insights and variables about the lead, but also about the follower's interpretation for different shapes of ocho cortado.
Music: Cada dia te extraño max (orquesta Troilo , singer Francisco Fiorentino).

14.22 min Ocho

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).

16.22 min Barrida

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).

17.16 min Barrida

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).

15.06 min Barrida

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)

14.47 min Barrida