Milonga Combinations to Build Essense - Rock and Side

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  • 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

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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.