La Cumparsita is without doubt amongst the most famous tango tunes of all times. Dancers and non dancers alike associate the tune with tango within just a few bars of hearing it. Read on to learn about the story behind the song...
Dimension: Immersion - Theme: Steps inspired by Nito & Alba
We started one of our favourite dimension - immersion - by looking at steps from Nito and Alba, who were dancing in the Golden Age of tango. We did a couple of sacadas (including quite a challenging sacada leading the follower into a cross) and a sequence from Americana.
Special class at Negracha - Creative crosses
In this class, we had a look at how we could use the axis to lead front crosses, back crosses and back cross sandwiches. Very playful additions to your repertoire of steps.
Dimension: Speed - Theme: Changes of speed & cadencias
In this class, we played with changes of speed. We applied it to the backward ochos by adding little rebounds to this simple step rhythmical and playful. We also focused on cadencias, these littles steps that play with the pendulum technique and that are just, so salón.
Dimension: Speed - Theme: The cross and its musicality
The cross is one of tango's emblematic steps. In this class, we started with a basic cross and then played with how the cross could look and feel with different musicalities and techniques, including that of the empujadita.
