- Artist Name:
- Aníbal Troilo
- Song Title:
- La Milonga Y Yo
- Album Title:
- Che Buenos Aires - 1969/1970
- Artist Website:
- http://www.troilo.com.ar/
(From Wikipedia): Anibal Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, arranger and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with social dancers during the golden age of tango (1940-1955), but he changed to a concert sound by the late 1950s. Troilo's orchestra is best known for its instrumentals and also recorded with many vocalists.
- 00:09
- So, the Argentine tango has a family of dances, the same way ballroom has a family of dances.
- 00:14
- So, for example, in ballroom you've got waltz and foxtrot and quickstep.
- 00:19
- Well, in the Argentine tango, we've got tango, but we've also got milonga, which we're doing now, and vals.
- 00:25
- And, in milonga, you just step on every beat, like we're doing now.
- 00:30
- Very small and tight.
- 00:32
- And so, we'll have chapters about that, but this chapter is just to introduce the first step for milonga.
- 00:38
- 4 count basic.
- 00:39
- A 4 count basic. And so, for the leaders, what you're going to do, is you're going to...
- 00:45
- So, there's sort of this changing weight, just to get in sync, and then after you are in sync,
- 00:50
- You go back, open.
- 00:53
- And notice how my back-open, I go back, open.
- 00:58
- But I'm not taking a very big step, so I'm going to go open, and she's going to step side, around.
- 01:03
- So, the followers, what you do,
- 01:05
- Is you go forward, around him. And notice that my step is wider here, because you're going around him.
- 01:11
- If we just do that, we've got...
- 01:18
- And so she's past me a little bit.
- 01:21
- But his heels stay almost together, so I can get past them.
- 01:24
- Now, after that, I'm going to go through, so I'm going to take a small forward step to the outside of her.
- 01:30
- And I'm going to step around, as she changes in place.
- 01:34
- So, there's this sense that, at the beginning, we go back, and then she passes him, and then forward, and then he goes around her.
- 01:43
- So there's this constant switching from one person to the other.
- 01:46
- So, that's a little bit hard for people to get their minds around.
- 01:49
- The fact that you just... When this person is going around you, the person is going to be standing in the same place, just opens the front of their feet
- 01:56
- But... Yeah.
- 01:57
- And keeps their heels together. so that the other person can get around.
- 02:01
- If I took a step...
- 02:03
- So, imagine I'm trying to get around her.
- 02:04
- If I take a step like this, he has to get around me...
- 02:07
- Nancy: like that which really
David: I have to work hard.
- 02:08
- Doesn't work.
- 02:09
- But if she makes it small, then it's very easy for me to pass her.
- 02:16
- So, we've got: small, she goes around, forward, I go around.
- 02:21
- And then it repeats.
- 02:23
- So, now... Right now, we're doing it to tempo, which is really quite fast.
- 02:28
- Sometimes it's even faster, this is a medium milonga.
- 02:31
- I know, I mean, I don't want you to suffer, but... at the beginning, milonga music can be fast, and this is actually a moderate paced one.
- 02:38
- So, as you do milonga, I want you to think, "Small means fast becomes easy". So I'm going to show you that.
- 02:44
- If we're dancing large, we'll suffer.
- 02:46
- Hm.
- 02:47
- So, watch this. If I take really big steps,
- 02:50
- Oh, boy.
- 02:55
- And it feels like...
- 02:57
- That's way too hard.
- 02:58
- Yeah, it feels like the song is really fast.
- 02:59
- But if I do this, I'll be like, "Oh, look, there's all the time in the world, all the time in the world".
- 03:06
- Actually, you could probably do double-time.
- 03:09
- Right, you know, if I'm doing it that small.
- 03:17
- And that's double-time.
- 03:18
- So, the bottom line is, the faster it is, the smaller step you take. And that will make it a lot easier.
- 03:23
- Yes.
- 03:24
- We're going to show it half-time, though, so you have a chance to catch it.
- 03:27
- So, we're going to dance it, but half-time.
