Basic Variations - Beg/Int - Basic With Delayed Weight Change
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There's something that feels especially "tango" about movements which have a pivot and then a perfectly timed breath to the leaders stepping back and the follower stepping forward. There needs to be a sense of suspension at that moment where he steps around and she doesn't step and a sense of moving through at the end of her pivot where the leader steps back and the follower forward.
- Artist Name:
- Alex Krebs
- Song Title:
- Bailemos
- Album Title:
- New York Tango Jam Session
- Artist Website:
- http://www.tangoberretin.com/
From website: (Alex Krebs) Has been studying the bandoneon since May 2001, directed the tango band "Conjunto Berretin." (with 2 CD's recorded) from 2003-2008, and currently is arranging/directing a tango sextet and arranging/directing an Orquesta Tipica for the Portland Tango Festivals in Feb. and Oct.
- 00:04
- This is actually - it’s my favorite of the basic steps.
- 00:08
- And we call it David’s basic.
- 00:09
- But we decided not to name it that
because... - 00:11
- ..most of the combinations we’re teaching
are David’s combinations. - 00:14
- So we didn't want to make this -
- 00:15
- Stand out - "Oh what? The other aren’t."
- 00:17
- Right.
- 00:19
- It’s got this really cool squiggle in it
that’s very fun. - 00:37
- And it can turn any degree.
- 00:38
- Right now I’m turning it at 180,
so it’s good for the camera. - 00:42
- Really what we’re doing,
the first part is we’re delaying the weight shift. - 00:46
- Normally -
- 00:47
- The weight shift for the man.
- 00:48
- For the man.
- 00:49
- Normally when we do a basic, side, one, two…
- 00:52
- ..she crosses and he’ll shift weight.
- 00:54
- But I’m not going to.
- 00:55
- I’m going to step with my right foot
and then I would shift here. - 01:00
- But instead of shifting,
I step around her and then we go on. - 01:06
- And for the followers, this gives you the opportunity
to have a beautiful styling with your foot. - 01:11
- So after that cross, he takes you back
and then he goes around you. - 01:17
- And you see that beautiful tail that my right foot makes,
as it goes to step forward. - 01:36
- So once again, showing the last half slowly.
- 01:46
- It goes through for the leader, back for the follower.
- 01:49
- He goes around her. She pivots,
foot makes a tail, we extend. - 01:55
- Now I want to make one comment for the leader
about going around the follower. - 01:58
- This comes up pretty frequently.
- 01:59
- I’ll say he goes around her, but what happens is,
your body is wider than it is narrow. - 02:06
- And so if I go - think what I did
into the camera. - 02:10
- This is wider than this.
- 02:14
- And so if I go around her and I put my feet here,
but I go straight forward... - 02:18
- ..I’m going to bump into her.
- 02:20
- See that? Can you stand right here.
- 02:25
- So if I go this, straight that way,
I’ll hit her with my right chest. - 02:30
- Actually let’s do it this way.
- 02:31
- You think I just like moving her.
- 02:33
- So right here if we go forward,
I’d hit her with my chest. Don’t move. - 02:36
- But if I rotate sideways as I go there -
- 02:39
- Then I have room.
- 02:40
- I can go by.
- 02:41
- And so when I say go around,
you have to rotate the body as well... - 02:46
- ..so you don’t knock the follower
off her axis. - 02:48
- I think that’s probably the single
most important thing for the leader... - 02:51
- ..and the thing that makes it fun for the followers.
