- Künstlername:
- Astor Piazzolla
- Liedtitel:
- Soledad
- Albumtitel:
- La Camorra
- Künstler Website:
- http://www.piazzolla.org/
Astor Piazzolla zusammen einen riesigen Körper der klassischen Musik ganz von Tango basiert. Wir sehr genießen tanzen zu seiner Musik.
- 00:04
- I didn't use to think very much of close embrace.
- 00:08
- I thought it would make things much harder to hold to your strong center and on your axis, and that's true.
- 00:15
- I thought it would make it much more difficult to step that long and in beautiful complex tango combination, and that's sometimes partly true
- 00:22
- But it's also true, and the first time I danced with David like this, that was the last time I thought that I didn't think much about close embrace.
- 00:35
- Because it sometimes can be magic in a traveling cuddle.
- 00:40
- So we're going to teach you some videos, we have two sections of videos
- 00:44
- series of videos about close embrace here, we've planned to film some more later on,
- 00:49
- and our intent is to give you the technique, because it always does start with technique.
- 00:55
- So that you can find that bliss that I'm talking about, and hopefully, we'll also hope you look good doing it.
- 01:03
- So the first thing, as you do close embrace,
- 01:07
- is a hold, a different kind of hold, the hold I like, frankly, I'm going to teach the one I like,
- 01:12
- is that the follower's breast... her central line, goes ... where the leader's front and side meet.
- 01:19
- So along this line, right here, and so her central line is right here.
- 01:24
- So when you embrace, if she's completely sideways, you'll see that I step diagonally into her here
- 01:32
- So we have an open theme, but we can be very close.
- 01:36
- Sometimes people touch with their heads,
- 01:39
- and my only advice is to take off glasses if you're going to do that.
- 01:43
- Actually, I had a teacher, brief aside, who said: "I always dance looking to my left"
- 01:50
- And then lady is, like, wow, you know, if you took off your glasses, then you wouldn't...
- 01:55
- Because I always hit her with the corner of my glasses, that's why I face to my left.
- 01:58
- So, anyway, take off your glasses
- 02:00
- As we're here, also I want you to be aware of what steps are constrained.
- 02:05
- So for example we can step... you can't see it from that angle... we can step just as big side-to-side as we always can
- 02:12
- With my right arm unwrapped all the way around,
- 02:17
- even if we go forward, the trick is to make sure your body motivates it, so that she can follow that.
- 02:24
- If my leg goes first here - bang, I just hit her.
- 02:29
- So I have to make sure that the body is followed with the leg, so that she can feel that.
- 02:34
- Finally, as we do this, I want you to...
- 02:37
- I want you to remember, that you should be forgiving of yourself. Because close embrace isn't, so you should be.
- 02:45
- Well, and finally-finally
- 02:47
- Finally-finally?
- 02:48
- Yes, that we each can maintain standing up straight with a strong center inside our own axis, and still be really close.
- 02:56
- Yeah, actually, let me show that.
- 02:58
- Show them wrong, David. OK, I'm the leader, he's the follower.
- 03:02
- This is what a lot of women do, they're like "Ohhh..."
- 03:07
- Or, they come up and over
- 03:11
- And up and over is OK, but if the butt sticks out - that's not
- 03:14
- So it's OK to be here, but you don't want to be here
- 03:18
- You want to be here.
- 03:22
- So it's up to us to defend our axis, just like we always... it's always up to us to defend our axis.