Milonga Combinations to Build Essense - Rock and Side
- Tango dancers should do well on a conga line.
- Those, or actually we should call them checks to the side, are most notable because they don't really shift that much. I know David says this in the video, but it is worth repeating.
- A little bit of contra body as you go from side to either forward or back really helps a lot in adding shape to the body.
- Artist Name:
- La Chicana
- Song Title:
- Baldosa Floja
- Album Title:
- Ayer Hoy Era Mañana
(From a review): La Chicana is a wonderful small tango band with an original, creative composer (Estol) and a captivating singer.
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- So this chapter and the next, uh,
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- couple chapters are all about, uh, particular essence
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- that I want you to get in malanga.
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- This particular one has to do
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- with the, the stop of the body.
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- And so I want you to think about, uh, my body
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- as I rock later on, and then I'll call it out later on.
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- And that's really, uh, like a conga line.
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- And so you see a sort of like a
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- Conga lo Sort of like a conga line.
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- It's really sort of like a conga line. Exactly.
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- And uh, for the leaders you go check
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- and cross in front, check
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- and cross in front AK check
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- and in front check.
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- And in front for the followers you have the
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- mirror opposite, right?
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- Talk about the fact that they need
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- to actually put some weight on the foot. The checks
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- You need to actually put some weight on the foot.
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- The checks mission very well done. Yeah.
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- Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it wrong in different ways.
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- So when I go side to check, I don't do this
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- because it's too soft.
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- You don't see the clear accent on one side and the other.
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- What I do is I send my body over
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- and then I stop it and I cross.
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- I send my body over the other way and then I come back.
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- So you see my center of gravity actually does move.
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- So there's a little bit of weight on my, uh,
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- left foot right now or a little bit of weight on my right.
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- How about this one? Okay.
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- And then also as you do this, you want to think
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- that it's uh, the whole body moving just a little
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- bit and then it stopped.
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- And if you move, let's say a part of the body
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- that makes less sense moving, just the part of the body.
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- And it's not me longer. So we'll demo again.
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- Halftime, you've got break with a little bit of weight,
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- come back, cross little bit of weight, come back, cross
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- so much, the half talk.
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- Yeah.
