Different Kinds of Good Stuff

 

Beginning

Your First Dance - Core basic steps all beginners need to know - this will get you started dancing

The Basic

Front Ochos

Back Ochos

Weight Changes and Walking

Putting it Together

Additional Beginning Elements - Common and useful more advanced beginning elements

Rocks

Media Vuelta

Six Count Basic

Mixing Beginning Elements - You don't have finish one move before starting the next

Interrupting the Basic With Front Ochos

Interrupting the Basic With Front Ochos - More Practice

Interrupting Media Vuelta With the Basic and Front Ochos

Free For All Demo

An Intro to Technique - Place to start with technique - not only for beginners

The Embrace

Musicality

Line of Dance

Honoring Axis

Lead, Follow & Connection

Compensating for Your Partner - How you can make the dance work when your partner doesn't

He's Pulling Me Off Balance

She's Pulling Me Off Balance

He Doesn't Have a Lead

She Has Noodle Arms

He Rushes

She Rushes Ahead of My Lead

Connection - Techniques to help understand and improve connection

Breath and Fluidity in the embrace

Arm Tone & Placement

No Slack in the System

Creating Chemistry Through Distance

Lead - Techniques to help understand and improve lead

Rotational Movement

Linear Movement

How to Make a Woman Swoon

More Vocabulary

Intermediate Elements - A first intro to int. tango elements - good place to start after the beginner material

Freno

Gancho

Drag

Boleo

The Lean

Molinette

Wrap

Sacada

Vocabulary - Take 2 - Leaders - A second path at core intermediate tango vocabulary to improve leader's technique

Ochos

Basic

Media Vuelta

Freno

Boleo

Gancho

Drag

Vocabulary - Take 2 - Followers - A second path at core intermediate tango vocabulary to improve follower's technique

Ochos

Basic

Media Vuelta

Freno

Boleo

Gancho

Drag

More About Molinette - Additional videos about molinette technique

Follower

Leader

Close Embrace

More in the Lean - Advanced combinations which take things you might do standing and translate them into leans

Volcada

Lean and Gancho

Walking Around in the Lean

Advanced Elements - Challenging and fun steps

Sit

Spinning Sit

She Drags Him

Colgada

She Flies and Then She Swoons

Profound Thoughts

How to Learn Tango - How to think so you improve faster and more

Thought

Feedback

Videoing and Critiquing

Practicing at Home - Things you can do to get better at home typically without a partner

Leg Exercise Sequence

Front and Back Ochos

Intermediate Vocabulary for the Leader

Intermediate Vocabulary for the Follower

Practicing the Lean With a Partner

Profound Thoughts - Some of the things we think are really important beyond vocabulary and technique

The Power of Active Stillness and Willingness to Wait

Moving the Body as One

Be Kind

Milonga

Milonga Introductory Vocabulary - Intro to milonga which is a rhythmic attitude filled dance which involves, typically, stepping on every beat

4 Count Basic

6 Count Basic

8 Count Basic

Crab

Linear Steps and Weight Changes

Milonga Sample Dance

Milonga Style - Isolating the elements that make milonga look like milonga

Contra Body Motion

Up-Down

Heavy Landing

Playful

Solo Milonga Example

Milonga Typical Combinations - Common milonga combinations that involve more than "just walking"

Pivot, Inside Leg

Pivot-Cut

Va y Ven

Milonga Combinations to Build Essense - Combinations designed to help develop attitude and style

Rock and Side

Hover Step

Quick Leg Switch

Milonga Sample Dance 2

Embellishments

Embellishments - Extra flavor that the follower (typically) can add to the dance - not led

At the Freno

Turning

As Compared to Styling

For Leaders

Detailed Technique for 2 Embellishments

Close Embrace

An Intro to Close Embrace - Close embrace: dancing body to body

Orientation to Close Embrace

Left Foot Basic

Back Ochos

Ocho Cortado

Walking to Go Nowhere Ochos

Close Embrace - Additional Elements - Some vocabulary which is not often done in close embrace but which works very nicely

Basic

Wrap

Trap

Performing

First Pass at Performing Tango - Performing tango: not the steps but everything else

First Step:  Music Choice

Choreographic Structure

Why They Look Good and We Don't

Acting

Putting It All Together

Lifts - Steps which involve taking the follower off the floor and associated body mechanics for both leader and follower

Easy Sit in the Air

Easy Sit - Moving in the Air

Lunge to Lift

Architecture of Tango

Linear Vocabulary - Finding breadth and variety inside simplicity

Introduction

Example Combo 1

Example Combo 2

Using Dice to Put Together a Combo

Navigation

A full dance

Cross System at Right Angles - Most tango has leader and follower facing on natural and opposite feet (one on left, one on right foot, etc.). This series: dancing tango in cross system (both on same feet with the bodies typically at a right angle). Front and back ochos are 2 examples.

Ocho, Stairstep

Rocks

Adding Turn

Cross System is Like Legos

Demo Dance & Discussion