- Artist Name:
- Juan D'Arienzo
- Song Title:
- 9 de Julio
- Album Title:
- RCA Victor 100 Años - Juan D'Arienzo
Known as "El Rey del Compás" (King of the Beat), his music is played often at milongas. The instrumentals are the classic rhythmic tangos with a strong staccato dance rhythm.
- 00:05
- Guys, as you lead the boleo, we’ll talk about
some of the details that we didn’t get to earlier…
- 00:10
- ..but you’ll see that there, my right arm is free.
- 00:14
- So that, the instinct is to do the boleo like this...
- 00:17
- D: ..where you throw it.
N: I'm not going to like this.
- 00:20
- But I don’t let go of my right arm
until my body is very distorted.
- 00:23
- And so you want to make sure that as you throw the boleo...
- 00:26
- ..you move the right arm in,
so she has full range of motion in her hips to pivot.
- 00:31
- But that you also can keep your own axis.
- 00:36
- So if you watch my right arm,
I’ll go here but I’ll slide it in.
- 00:43
- Or alternatively, as I send her out...
- 00:45
- ..then I’ll let go and let it slide
and then grab her again.
- 00:50
- That’s feels really powerful when you do that.
- 00:52
- Well that’s not about the let go,
that’s about the sending.
- 00:57
- Also for the guys, there’s often this instinct of going...
- 01:00
- ..backward or forwards into her space.
- 01:02
- And so if I lead a boleo like this, ...
- 01:04
- ..invisible woman, I'm..
- 01:06
- .. not going to inflict it on.
- 01:08
- So we go here. If I do this,
you can imagine that the lady...
- 01:12
- ..who’s right here would have a hard time
being balanced.
- 01:14
- Likewise, if I’m like this.
- 01:15
- So I want you to think that you’re going to
maintain your own axis...
- 01:18
- ..and you’re going to throw it
and then bring her back.
- 01:21
- And you see that I have the vertical line.
- 01:31
- Now there are many kind of boleos.
- 01:34
- So if I’m the follower, that’s a boleo
or this is a boleo.
- 01:42
- Or...that’s a boleo or this is a boleo.
- 01:48
- Right so all these different kinds of boleos
and you can’t...
- 01:53
- ..you can’t really say to her,
“I want this one particular boleo.”
- 01:56
- I mean you can, so you can lead
and in your lead request a specific boleo.
- 02:02
- But it’s very hard. It’s a very subtle thing.
- 02:04
- So I’m going to talk about some of the different leads
for the different boleos…
- 02:06
- ..realizing that in real life, you’ll be lucky
if you get exactly what you ask for.
- 02:11
- You want something even vaguely similar
and that’s a success.
- 02:15
- So first one, if I want her to do boleo along the ground,
instead of kicking up…
- 02:19
- ..I’ll push down and out.
- 02:21
- So the air boleo, if you look at my right arm
and my energy…
- 02:24
- ..I send it that way and I stop.
- 02:28
- But if I want it along the floor,
I’ll push down a little bit.
- 02:37
- So that was the air.
- 02:42
- That’s the floor.
- 02:43
- Yes, and I didn’t know which one
he was going to do first.
- 02:45
- Right, so that’s how it works.
- 02:46
- So there’s that versus that.
- 02:54
- There are other kinds and
we’re going to skip them for now...
- 02:57
- ..and we’re going to jump topics
and mention that…
- 03:00
- ..leaders, you’re responsible for the navigation.
- 03:03
- So as you’re dancing follower around the room...
- 03:06
- ..and you’re carefully not running her into people
and chairs and walls and stuff.
- 03:11
- You also want to be careful of running her foot
into people or chairs or walls.
- 03:15
- So when you lead a boleo, make sure that there’s sort of
nothing in the path of destruction and death.
- 03:20
- Path of destruction.
