Dimension: Speed - Theme: Fundamentals of changes of speed (and fun, quick steps)
To start our new theme, we focused on musicality, and studied 2 little steps that are really nice to mark the end of the musical phrase. For intermediates+, we saw a version of the baby ocho and the corte, which can be used on rhythmical orchestras or to mark the end of musical phrases.
This week marks the end of our Academic Term focusing on the Tango Dimension Embrace and on Rodriguez orchestra. Time to review what you've learned!
Dimension: The embrace - Theme: Review
In this class, we applied two important concepts that we have studied over the past month (opening & closing the embrace and grounding & lifting) to a couple of beautiful, romantic steps using ochos and a lapiz.
Dimension: The embrace - Theme: Grounding technique
The grounding technique is very useful to create a lot of steps, including barridas and planeos. Basically it is a technique used to stop the follower at a particular point in her transfer of axis. We used this step today in a pretty planeo, a 360-degree turn and a barrida. Variety is the spice of life!
The only accepted way to overtake a couple on the dance floor seems to be on the left...
