Practicing at Home - Intermediate Vocabulary for the Leader
Just remember: Practice makes perfect.
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. Ashleigh Brilliant
- Artist Name:
- Orchesta El Arranque
- Album Title:
- Tango
- Artist Website:
- http://www.orquestaelarranque.com.ar/
(condensed from their website): Started in 1996 with young musicians, Orchesta el Arranque has performed in 250 cities internationally.
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- Leaders, for some of your intermediate vocabulary,...
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- ..here are some different things you can do by yourself.
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- First for the gancho: gancho, bang, she hits,...
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- ...there's two different co-ordinations.
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- The first co-ordination is where you're taking her,
from center to back,... - 00:26
- ...and the second co-ordination
is when you're pivoting her on her axis. - 00:32
- And you're doing these two co-ordinations
at the same time. - 00:35
- So you're doing - that.
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- And so, what I'd like to do at home,
is to practice one, the shift,... - 00:43
- ...and then, two, the pivot. And then, three, putting them together.
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- Now this is remarklably similar to boleo.
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- And so, doesn't everyone have, at home,
a folding chair? - 00:55
- They're all like, "no."
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- Well, we have them in dance studios.
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- And so, you get something that's akin to a folding chair;
it doesn't have to be the same. - 01:01
- And, in boleo, there's this idea that you're going to
throw the woman and stop her... - 01:05
- ..when she's balanced on one leg.
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- So she starts out, if I'm the girl,...
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- ..on two legs and you throw her back, bang.
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- So, here's the girl, balanced on two legs...
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- ..and you're going to throw her back and stop her
when she's vertical. - 01:19
- And, the instinct is to stop her too late
and she's off her axis. - 01:23
- So, I want you to do this with a very female chair.
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- And go: wham.
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- And then stop, and ideally stop
when the chair's vertical. - 01:32
- And this is also very much the same with the gancho.
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- So you can do two for one.
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- The final thing, and you have better equipment than I do.
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- I only have a chair. You have a wall.
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- So what I want you to do, is I want you to go
and put your back to a wall. - 01:45
- And so, for the freno, the basic idea is that
I want you to isolate in your right leg... - 01:51
- ..and then turn.
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- Where the turn is you're pulling
your right hip back. - 01:56
- And so, as you do that,
I want you to have the wall... - 01:58
- ..or in my case, the chair's feet back.
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- So that your butt or hips, and your shoulder blades,
at least one... - 02:05
- ..is touching the wall the whole time.
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- Because the instinct is to invade her space.
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- So, tools for feedback. Go and practice.
