- 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.
- 00:19
- And the, the luxury of that step is,
- 00:21
- 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
- and what we do first, um,
- 00:29
- let's talk about the transition to get into it.
- 00:31
- Normally you're doing some sort of milongas step, whatever,
- 00:33
- let's say the crab
- 00:39
- and then right here, instead
- 00:40
- of stepping forward, you wanna step side.
- 00:42
- But when you step side, you don't wanna step
- 00:44
- straight side for the leaders.
- 00:46
- You wanna step side and open her, right?
- 00:49
- So I'm turning her as I step
- 00:50
- side and that's our prop.
- 00:56
- And then we can go inside leg for the followers.
- 00:58
- As you turn, make sure you keep your, uh, right arm, uh,
- 01:00
- full forward enough so you can use that.
- 01:03
- So keep forward pressure on
- 01:04
- 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
- 01:10
- doesn't really move, it's just her arm.
- 01:14
- So that's your, uh, prep.
- 01:16
- Now, once you're here, uh, for, for both people really,
- 01:20
- I want you to realize that there can be
- 01:21
- this, uh, wonderful snap.
- 01:23
- So if you see in our arms, she's gonna resist here.
- 01:26
- And this will let her pop her body.
- 01:30
- And so there's this pressure. And then you let
- 01:31
- the, the spine bend.
- 01:32
- So the hips go all the way to one direction,
- 01:35
- then all the way to the other,
- 01:36
- Which David is more bend than
- 01:38
- I've, right. Which I'm, I'm
- 01:39
- sort of doing almost
- 01:39
- 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 gonna pull with my left arm.
- 01:49
- She's gonna pull with her, right? Snap and come back.
- 01:54
- And when we come back, we switch weight.
- 01:56
- Yes. And that's hard.
- 01:57
- Um, the snap comes
- 02:00
- because the body reaches its natural end, right?
- 02:03
- So as you watch the body go,
- 02:04
- it's like the spine twists all the way.
- 02:06
- And then when it can twist no more, it rebounds back.
- 02:13
- So we have open forward pivot, pulse, 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, change weight, um, this is, oh,
- 02:26
- so milang is a very different dance from Argent tango.
- 02:29
- And in Argent tango,
- 02:30
- it's like the follower doesn't change weight
- 02:32
- unless the leader leads it in Milonga,
- 02:34
- that's like halfway is true.
- 02:35
- So when in doubt in Milonga, you go
- 02:39
- Two. Well, I think when in, yeah,
- 02:40
- when in doubt in me longer,
- 02:41
- you change weight on every beat.
- 02:43
- So that's all we're doing in that step is we're snapping
- 02:45
- and that's the end of a beat. So we change weight,
- 02:47
- Right? Whereas in,
- 02:48
- in tango, when in doubt you do nothing, right?
- 02:51
- So we have,
- 02:59
- or from the other direction.
