- Nombre del artista:
- Romulo Larrea
- Título de la canción:
- Le Petit Point Defendu
- Título del álbum:
- Le Tango De Chez Nous
- Sitio Web del artista:
- http://www.ensembleromulolarrea.com/
(Desde el sitio web): Fundada en 1990 por el bandoneonista Rómulo Larrea, el septeto reúne a músicos talentosos y jóvenes que residen en Quebec. El Ensemble explora incansablemente el vibrante mundo del tango y se ha destacado como embajador excepcional del género en círculos culturales internacionales.
- 00:07
- In this chapter we’re going to be teaching
a lot of nitpicky details about the embrace.
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- And the reason we’re teaching them is
because they work.
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- D: So the nitpicks work.
N: They really do.
- 00:18
- So for the leaders, when you wrap around,
it depends on the distance.
- 00:21
- But in slightly open embrace, the style I usually teach...
- 00:24
- ..and we’ll have other chapters
about other embraces.
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- You’ll create contact with your forearm
and with the back of your hand...
- 00:30
- ..and with your left hand.
- 00:32
- So you’ll see on this side,
I create pressure with my forearm here...
- 00:38
- ..with my back of my hand here,
and then with this arm here, forward...
- 00:43
- ..And so you can say you’re sort of triangulating
and then compressing in to your follower.
- 00:49
- Notice my elbows are naturally down,
so I don’t do like this or like this.
- 00:53
- Just naturally down.
- 00:56
- For the followers...
- 00:58
- ..on this side, you think,
"Don't let your back move."
- 01:02
- When he creates this pressure,
it’s not to move you.
- 01:04
- We don't do this.
- 01:05
- We give him our backs and then
we have three places of pressure too.
- 01:11
- The elbow, the forearm and the hand.
- 01:14
- And then on the other side,
you have your other hand which meets.
- 01:17
- And so as he compresses,
once again don’t move, stay there.
- 01:20
- And this is going to sound so easy when I say it
and it took me four years to learn;
- 01:24
- ..when he pushes you push,
when he pulls you pull.
- 01:27
- So you stay in the same spot.
- 01:29
- But I want to remind you that
this is really about being human.
- 01:33
- So our embrace is to facilitate this
wonderful communication...
- 01:37
- ..this wonderful dialogue through touch.
- 01:40
- And so as we do this,
you can imagine it’s like a hug.
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- We’re here -
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- I like this part.
- 01:47
- And then we’re here
and then we’re here.
- 01:51
- And it still stays feeling
the same way to me.
- 01:55
- So it’s a hug that evolves.
- 01:57
- And so you have these mechanical aspects
which we talked about before.
- 02:01
- But I also want you to think that
you don’t want to be incredibly stiff.
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- You don’t want to be -.
- 02:06
- Urr
- 02:08
- You want to be - ahhh
and then you create pressure.
- 02:12
- So the pressure is through the touch.
- 02:14
- We go, ahhh,
but I mean through the back.
- 02:17
- So it's the back that works, but the arms
stay relaxed as if it were a hug.
- 02:23
- So that’s the first part of this
that you can have that technique;
- 02:26
- ..where to put the arms,
where to create the pressure.
- 02:28
- Part two is that there are profound truths
about the embrace.
- 02:32
- And one of them is that...
- 02:35
- ..there are fundamentals, that when I pull on her arm...
- 02:38
- ..the purpose is not to get her arm to move,
but so that I can feel her center.
- 02:42
- And because this truth is general,
it doesn’t matter how you hold.
- 02:47
- So for example, we could do this;
- 02:50
- ..we can have her hold here,
which is a very odd way of dancing.
- 02:52
- And I could hold her pinky
which is a very odd way of dancing.
- 03:00
- But we’re choosing not to let our arms move,
but instead to make it about the movement of the body.
- 03:06
- So I’m not encouraging you to dance that way.
- 03:10
- Connect his core to my core,
so he can move both of us.
- 03:14
- And that’s why we can stay so together,
which is cool.
- 03:16
- And it doesn’t really matter how you hold...
- 03:17
- ..as long as you keep that fundamental in place.
- 03:19
- So I want you to try this at home or
with a friend.
- 03:23
- Not that one.
- 03:23
- But just put an arm and have someone pull it
and don’t move...
- 03:26
- ..and I want you to feel that in your core.
- 03:28
- And likewise you pull my arm any way,
don’t move it.
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- You can do this with any limb.
- 03:33
- And that’s when you know you’re connecting
your arm to your body...
- 03:37
- ..when you choose not to let it move.
- 03:39
- And then your bodies move exactly as one.
