Your First Dance - Back Ochos
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For Followers: We know this is hard on the balance, but it's also extremely common.
Pretty shortly, after going through the beginning vocabulary, there are a lot of other chapters which should help you with your back ochos: back ochos-take 2, pivoting more easily, styling.
For Leaders: This is hard for the followers. Be ready to help them.
- Artist Name:
- Anibal Troilo
- Song Title:
- A Fuego Lento
- Album Title:
- A Fuego Lento
Anibal Troilo had a somewhat more lyrical style, and is of the "Golden Age" of tango music ( mid 1930s to mid 1950s). One of the more common people to hear played in Milongas.
- 00:04
- So now we are going to start with Back Ochos
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- and Back Ochos is the extact reverse of Front Ochos
- 00:09
- and for some background
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- it's called an odd show because
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- you make a figure eight on the floor with your feet
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- and it's back because the woman steps back
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- or forward because the woman steps forward
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- so last time we made this figure eight on the floor
- 00:20
- with the woman stepping forward
- 00:21
- and now we are going to make it with the woman stepping back
- 00:24
- which is a whole lot harder for the woman by the way
- 00:26
- Yeah!, really is, so you know woman ehh... we have empathy
- 00:30
- especially me!
- 00:42
- So it starts the exact same way
- 00:44
- it's the same for both people to edge the pivot the other way
- 00:47
- Ahhh!... for the woman,
- 00:49
- stepping backward and pivoting back are much harder
- 00:52
- for the guy to back the same even easier
- 00:55
- Ohhh, it's easier for the man, harder for the woman..
- 00:58
- Like I... ahhh...
- 01:02
- and what that means is that for the guys you have to help your woman more
- 01:05
- you have to press in a little bit more to help stabilize her
- 01:09
- so we break it down
- 01:10
- and for the woman,
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- if you hold down on him from your back or we will talk about this a little later
- 01:16
- it helps hims tremendously something like magic in getting him stable
- 01:20
- also
- 01:21
- if you don't go, you gonna step back..
- 01:23
- and then you don't go until you are balanced over the ball of your foot
- 01:26
- even if he rush you don't go until you are balanced over the ball of your foot
- 01:30
- and that helps alot
- 01:32
- so if we break it down
- 01:34
- just like the previous step it starts with a side step
- 01:34
- he changes what she doesn't
- 01:38
- now i'm going to pivot her the other way
- 01:40
- still rotating from my chest, she pivots all the way and wee step together
- 01:45
- I pivot, she pivots all the way and then we go together
- 01:52
- and in what pivot phase she will change weight
- 01:55
- that is an unreasonalble feeling amount of pivot for a woman
- 01:58
- and so I will do as much pivot it feels like a lot and then I do a little more and that's enough
- 02:03
- Yeah!, it really is alot
- 02:05
- it starts the same way as the other steps-side he changes
- 02:09
- pivots
- 02:10
- and step
- 02:19
- now, ohhh
- 02:20
- just like the other step you can do a lot of things after the Back Ochos
- 02:23
- this time instead of showing embellishments we will show variations
- 02:27
- and we will teach all these in later chapters
- 02:47
- and you know we could go on and on and on...
- 02:49
- that's fun!
