Technique Tips - Easier Pivots
Followers:: sometimes the leaders need just a little help to get you going:
- Artist Name:
- Zully Goldfarb
- Song Title:
- Ciudad De Nostalgia
- Album Title:
- Ciudad De Nostalgia
- Artist Website:
- http://www.zully.com.ar/
Complex tangos sung in both spanish and yiddish with great authenticity.
From artist's website about one album: Tells the story of piringundines, from German cabaret to the Buenos Aires tango venue, and with the tango it will take us through a history of crossed destinies, and misunderstandings, love, and forget that we identifys as Argentinians.- 00:05
- Some quick tips to make pivoting much easier.
- 00:10
- First, for the leaders, two things.
- 00:12
- One thing is sometimes the follower will get,
in some sense, stuck… - 00:16
- ..either because the floor is very sticky or
just because of how she pivots. - 00:20
- And, in either case, I want you to think
of two things. - 00:22
- First thing is the way that you can stabilise in your hips,
because that will give you strength. - 00:27
- D. So, if you watch my hips and I’m pivoting her and I’m doing this…
N. Strength, grrr. - 00:31
- ..that’s a lot stronger than if I do this.
- 00:34
- And, you see this sort of loses the strength
in the hip. - 00:35
- And then, you’ll also notice, if it’s a hard pivot,
I have an outrigger foot. - 00:40
- So, for example if we’re doing front ochos
and we go… - 00:44
- ..side, he changes - here I’ll cheat,
pivot, step, we’ll step... - 00:50
- ..here, I pivot her leaving the foot out there
so I can stabilize myself. - 00:54
- Number one.
- 00:55
- For the followers, as you pivot,
there’s a right way to help. - 01:00
- And so, I don’t want you to help by doing this…
- 01:02
- I knew what he didn't want.
- 01:04
- D:Yes, that’s what you don't want to do.
N: I think I do a really good bad. - 01:08
- So, instead as we’re going to pivot,
you’ll notice that I’m here and I’m saying… - 01:13
- ..pivot and she’s not moving
and then it pivots. - 01:16
- So, he goes us both.
- 01:18
- So, don’t help the wrong way.
- 01:20
- On the other hand, if you watch the foot,
and I’m the follower, if you pivot like this,… - 01:30
- ..you see the whole flat of my foot is on the floor,
that’s a hard way to pivot. - 01:35
- So, instead, I want you to think you pivot like this.
- 01:39
- So, there’s very little surface area of the foot.
- 01:41
- Now, you can tell he’s a scientist.
- 01:44
- The idea being that if there’s less surface area
there’s less friction... - 01:48
- ..which I think is kind of cool and kind of crazy.
- 01:51
- But because - so it fits with the tango look,
which is that we’re always on the balls of our feet. - 01:56
- But, it also makes it a lot easier to pivot because...
- 01:59
- ..we don’t have so much that has to rub
against the floor. - 02:02
- The other thing is you can sometimes get stuck,
in some sense, if you have a sticky floor... - 02:06
- ...and so, don’t try to go slowly.
If you sort of pop past that hard place... - 02:09
- .., it becomes a lot easier.
- 02:11
- And that’s kind of confusing because
we say that the followers should not go... - 02:15
- ..and that the leaders should go us…
- 02:16
- ..and most of the time that’s correct.
- 02:18
- But, what David's saying is that, in the very beginning,...
- 02:21
- ..we just give it a little bit of a fast start
in order to get it past that sticky place. - 02:27
- Yes. So, for example, if this were a sticky floor,
we might go: and, pop, and then go on… - 02:35
- ..or pop, and then go on,
and that will help you get past it. - 02:39
- And this is something that the leaders
can do, as well. - 02:42
- So, you can give the follower extra momentum.
- 02:44
- So, if I lead a slow ocho, it might be - and turn…
- 02:50
- But, if it’s a sticky floor, I’ll say, and turn.
- 02:53
- So, you see that “Ah” at the beginning.
- 02:56
- And so, this is something that both people can do.
- 02:59
- You can both do “Ah” and then go on.
