Milonga Typical Combinations - Pivot, Inside Leg
- What's important to make this step work?
- The pivot needs to be somewhat snappy. Use muscles to make the pivot pull in tight and then have the looser movement in your back make the hip accent more.
- It's the stretch through the body that creates the rebound.
- Artist Name:
- Juan Carlos Caceres
- Song Title:
- Toca Tango
- Album Title:
- Tango Negro
- Artist Website:
- http://www.juancarloscaceres.com/
(From the website): Possessed by a strong magnetic tellurism, Cáceres was always to be found within the limits of the hurricane’s eye.
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- And the luxury of that step is it's not as hard as it looks.
- 00:23
- Which is always a good thing.
- 00:24
- Yeah, usually they're harder than they look.
- 00:28
- What we do first, let's talk about the transition to get into it.
- 00:31
- Normally, you're doing some sort of milonga step, whatever, let's say the crab.
- 00:39
- And then, right here, instead of stepping forward, you want to step side.
- 00:43
- But when you step side, you don't want to step straight side, for the leaders, you want to step side and open her.
- 00:48
- Right, so I'm turning her, as I step side.
- 00:53
- And that's our prep.
- 00:55
- And then, we can go inside leg.
- 00:57
- For the followers, as you turn, make sure you keep your right arm forward enough, so you can use that.
- 01:03
- So, keep forward pressure on that right arm, and use that to pivot you.
- 01:06
- If I don't press on the right arm, then nothing happens.
- 01:08
- Right, you know, her body doesn't really move, it's just her arm.
- 01:14
- So, that's your prep.
- 01:16
- Now, once you're here, for... For both people,really, I want you to realize that there can be this wonderful snap.
- 01:23
- So, if you see, in our arms, she's going to resist here, and this will let her pop her body.
- 01:30
- And so, there's this pressure, and then you let the spine bend. So, the hips go all the way to one direction, then all the way to the other.
- 01:36
- Which, in David, is more bending than I've got.
- 01:38
- Right. I'm sort of doing almost too much, so I can make the point.
- 01:42
- So, in slow motion, we've got: open side, go forward.
- 01:48
- And now I'm going to pull with my left arm, she's going to pull with her right.
- 01:51
- Snap, and come back.
- 01:54
- And when we come back, we switch weight.
- 01:56
- Yes.
- 01:56
- And that's hard.
- 01:57
- The snap comes because the body reaches its natural end.
- 02:02
- Right? So, as you watch the body go, it's like the spine twists all the way, and then, when it can twist no more, it rebounds back.
- 02:13
- So, we have: open, forward,
- 02:15
- Pivot, pull, snap, rebound,
- 02:18
- Change weight, go forward.
- 02:21
- And that weight change happens at the peak.
- 02:23
- And the reason you know to change weight...
- 02:26
- So, milonga is a very different dance from Argentine tango.
- 02:29
- And in Argentine tango, it's like the follower doesn't change weight, unless the leader leads it.
- 02:33
- In milonga, that's, like, half-ways true.
- 02:35
- So, when in doubt in milonga, you go...
- 02:38
- Nancy: Well, I think when in...
David: one, two, ...
Nancy: Yeah, when in doubt in milonga, you change weight on every beat. - 02:43
- So, that's all we're doing in that step is we're snapping. And that's the end of the beat, so we change weight.
- 02:47
- Right.
- 02:47
- Where's in tango, when in doubt, you do nothing.
- 02:50
- Right.
- 02:51
- So, we have...
- 02:59
- Or, from the other direction.
