Close Embrace - Additional Elements - Wrap
We think, as you do this, you should go a little slower and be a little more subtle with the emphasis more about eachother. Then, not only will the step happen, but it will happen more true to the point of the step.
- Artist Name:
- Bernard Potock
- Song Title:
- Yiddish Tango
- Album Title:
- Yiddish Tango
Bernard Potock led the band who played Jewish music in Dave Cash's cabaret in Paris in the 1950's. His music has an authentic folk song feel in very danceable tango music.
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- And once again, this is one
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- of those steps which is incredibly subtle in the lead.
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- So once we're here, what I'm doing, um, let's do this
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- fundamentally, once, uh, I have my, uh, my foot track
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- between hers, I'm pulling in
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- and up that direction.
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- So it's there in my lead,
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- but you don't actually see movement.
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- All there is is there's this pressure which
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- causes her leg to move.
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- It's kind of like magic.
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- Yes. And so, uh, actually you'll notice the same pattern
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- with a lot of these close and embrace steps.
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- It is very subtle. And so I just do this little thing
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- and then I get out of her a lot more movement.
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- They, we say that in tango.
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- The man asks the woman a little and she gives him a lot,
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- Breaking down the step a little
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- bit more, but not a lot more.
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- I'll start side trap.
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- So my foot has to beat her foot in,
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- Which is somewhat similar to the open brace.
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- Yes. Same concept.
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- Then here, I'll pull her a little bit forward
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- and up diagonally and I,
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- and when I pull, I'm not pulling just in any place,
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- I'm pulling on the, uh, left side of her back.
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- So I want you to think that this side of her back
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- is controlling that leg
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- and this side of the back controls the other leg.
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- So this back is connected to leg.
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- If I pull up here that moves her, uh, left leg
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- last time, I'm gonna exaggerate it.
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- Whoa. That's some exaggeration. Yeah, it's
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- A lot of exaggeration. What we gonna even
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- See.
