Milonga Introductory Vocabulary - Linear Steps and Weight Changes
- This should be the main component of your milonga.
- It's very easy for it to look like you're just shuffling around aimlessly.
- Keep in mind that each one of these steps becomes very clearly defined - that your steps don't veer off 5 degrees. When you change weight in place, your feet really are exactly together. And, if they are not, make sure this is on purpose.
- One way you can work on this precision on your own is to use a board as a guide wire.
- Alternatively, you can have a friend watch. We emphasize getting this feedback, because it's really common for people to think they are doing one thing and actually be doing something subtly different than their intent.
- Artist Name:
- Electrocutango
- Song Title:
- Retrolonga
- Album Title:
- Felino
- Artist Website:
- http://www.indris.net/electrocutango
(From the website): Sverre Indris Joner, a creative remarkable tanguista, has with Electrocutango obtained a solid, irreproachable and refined version of new tango in this 21st century. This admirable Norwegian pianist, composer, arranger and director demonstrates that the tango still can keep its youthful aesthetic and challenging courage like in the old times.
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- So one of the really cool things about me long
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- is that you don't have to do a lot.
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- I remember when I was first learning salsa
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- and then later on we were doing bachata.
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- I was so relieved as a beginning leader to do bachata
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- because you didn't really do anything.
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- And uh, that's sort of like, uh, this chapter where really
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- to do me longa, all you need to do is walk forward,
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- back inside, and change weight.
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- Actually, that's true of tango too, but
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- Yeah, that's true of tango too,
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- but it's even more true of me.
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- Longa. Yeah. So we're gonna do a brief demo
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- and then we'll talk about it,
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- and then the music ends.
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- It'll come back
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- and you'll see that what we're doing is we're walking side
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- and changing,
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- walking forward and changing
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- or going back change, forward change.
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- But they're all, uh,
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- so I'm gonna call it linear steps, right?
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- I can go side or side or side or change or change.
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- And so you can almost get a, a six-sided dye rolling.
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- You're gonna say what direction?
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- I'm gonna go forward or back
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- or side. And then eventually weight
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- Change. That doesn't come to
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- six. Well,
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- Well, you can't weight change maybe more than once.
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- I don't know if this analogy is working. You get
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- A four sided die, a gaming store, oh, there we go.
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- And you row it and it says forward.
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- And so you go forward for a while and then do some changes,
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- and you go side and maybe change, or maybe it says back
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- and change, but you as leaders,
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- you don't wanna go back too often, um,
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- because you'll go back, back against line of dance.
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- So at most one step.
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- So if I go back, I would usually always
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- change weight immediately.
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- And so this look very varied.
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- And the, the, the trick as we do this
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- is how I say this.
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- If you have to think about it, it's too late
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- because the music bam, is fast. It's fast,
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- But it not only looks very, it feels fun.
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- So this is really more
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- of a demo than explicit instructions.
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- But I'm gonna give you homework.
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- And in your homework for the leaders, I want you
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- to think about just one combination.
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- Go side change, side change, side change
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- or go forward, forward, change back,
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- change forward or whatever.
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- You know, just some steps and then some weight changes.
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- And for the followers, uh,
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- you unfortunately the followers, you need a partner for this.
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- You, I want your leader just to, uh, grab your hand here.
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- She's my leader right now and she's gonna pull me
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- and I just sort of push or take me in any direction.
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- Gee, moving David around is fun.
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- So on that note, We.
