When Women Kept the Balance at the Milonga: A Tango Meditation (or possibly a rant) There was a time when women actually kept the balance at the milonga. A time when culturally if a man did not dance at a certain level the woman would turn down a cabaceo without thinking about it. The women, […]
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This is Video #5 in my series for increasing flexibility, stability and mobility to improve your technique in the dance. This video includes a Mini Summary of the previous videos with a couple additions. I have put them into a little sequence as I really want you to find them manageable and do-able. Always progressing
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Video #4, let’s get moving Up and Up and Up. This video continues our adventure in exercises to help to improve our technique in Tango. This video advances the articulation of the foot by using the floor. It might look a little bit like video #2 and that’s good. Have you been doing those exercises?
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Move you leg but not your body is the theme of video #3 in the series on how to improve Technique for Dancing. This video might look a bit like a ballet exercise and it is my lazy version of a rond de jambe. This literally translates as circle of the leg, which is what
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Are you pushing the floor to dance? “If you push you fall”, says my Maestra. This is not the quality we are necessarily looking for in our dancing. Below is a short video where I give a snapshot about this concept of pushing or dancing. Pushing is a very real feeling from either perspective of
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