Every week, you’ll find on our blog class notes and a summary video from our Wednesday and Sunday tango group classes.
These video and notes are meant to help our students remember what they’ve done in class.
In this class, we started with the classic backward ocho. For intermediates, we looked at a double backward ocho which is very musical and nice on rhythmical orchestras or at the end of musical phrases and a mini giro which can be led at a sandwich.
Summary video
Top tips
Beginners & improvers: Backward ocho
- Leaders: Make sure you dissociate first and the step together with your partner, whilst keeping your dissociation.
- Followers: Make sure you don’t change weight in the pivots. You should be stepping with the leg far to your partner.
Intermediates & up: Double backward ocho
- Leaders: You can lift your partner to make sure she can keep the speed.
- Followers: Try and do 2 nice ochos with a proper step and pivots. Try and not merge the moves.
Intermediates & up: Mini giro
- Leaders: Open the chest to the left to lead the mini giro.
- Followers: Stay on the ball of the feet to maintain the speed.
Homework
All: No matter which level you’re at, it always pays to work on the technique of something as fundamental as the backward ocho.
