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Your First Dance
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Additional Beginning Elements
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Mixing Beginning Elements
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An Intro to Technique
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Tango is Easy
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From One Ocho To Another - Beg/Int
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Intermediate Elements
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Ganchos, Boleos and Kicks - Intermediate
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Basic Variations - Beg/Int
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Vocabulary - Take 2 - Leaders
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Vocabulary - Take 2 - Followers
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More About Molinette
Intermediate - Vocabulary
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Combinations Commonly in the Body of Tango Lore
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Expanded Intermediate Vocabulary
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Media Vuelta - Intermediate
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Walking - Intermediate
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Kookie Crosses - Int
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Cool Ways to Travel - Adv
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Fun With Momentum - Int/Adv
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More in the Lean
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Advanced Elements
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More With The Gancho - Advanced
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Putting Lots of Stuff Together - Adv
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Big Pivots - Advanced
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Classic Sacada Combinations - Adv
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Practicing at Home
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Exercises to Create Body Integrity
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Controlling the Free Leg
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Take 3
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Technique Tips
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How to Learn Tango
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Profound Thoughts
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Take 4
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Linear Vocabulary
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Cross System at Right Angles
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Exploring Possibilities
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Making Possibilities Work
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Easy Transitions
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Milonga Introductory Vocabulary
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Milonga Style
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Milonga Typical Combinations
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Milonga Combinations to Build Essense
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Double Time & Traspie
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Vals Timing
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Vals Essence
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Vals Vocabulary
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First Pass at Performing Tango
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Lifts
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Lifts - Sit
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Lifts - 2
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A Sample Choreography
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Performance for Those Willing to Suffer
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Embellishments
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Embellishments - Take 2
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Embellishments - Taking the Lead
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Leader's Embellishments and Molinette - Adv
Lead, Follow & Connection
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Compensating for Your Partner
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Connection
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Lead
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Creating Magic
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Touch
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Musicality
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Making Music With Dance
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An Intro to Close Embrace
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Close Embrace - Additional Elements
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Milonguero Style Close Embrace
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Salon Style Close Embrace
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The Basic
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Weight Changes
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Back Ocho
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Front Ochos
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Pivot
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Small Pivot
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Facing
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Mapping
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Connection in Body
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Alignment
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Lengthening Off & Through the Hips
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Grab bag :)
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Basic & Ocho
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Freno
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Lunging
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Drag
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Gancho
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Freno Gancho & Drag Together
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- 00:14
- Where again, and this is the quote,
- 00:17
- traditional eight count basic.
- 00:28
- And for the leaders, or just let's say to learn the step,
- 00:32
- uh, I like, let's do it this angle.
- 00:34
- I like to break it down into two halves.
- 00:35
- This is the first half where I go side rotate slightly.
- 00:38
- So I out step her one, two, this is in the line.
- 00:42
- And then as my left foot touches
- 00:43
- and her right foot touches, that is when the cross happens.
- 00:48
- And I'm looking to try
- 00:49
- to get my toes without even with each other.
- 00:53
- And so that's the first half. One more time side.
- 00:57
- One, two, rotate shift up. She crosses, he changes weight.
- 01:02
- Part one. Now part two.
- 01:04
- After that, uh, start from the cross.
- 01:08
- We have through side,
- 01:12
- we both change and exit. And
- 01:15
- We call that the tango close.
- 01:17
- And we can use it at the end of other steps as well. Whoops.
- 01:20
- It's okay. And so now if we look at the followers part in
- 01:24
- that cross, as we take that step to that cross right here.
- 01:34
- One more time. So notice that it just slots in.
- 01:37
- And importantly, notice that her toes are even,
- 01:40
- I made it. Yay.
- 01:41
- 01:43
- One more time just because we were a little out of camera.
- 01:48
- Uh, scoot forward towards me there. Here.
- 01:52
- So once again, slots in
- 01:55
- toes even she's on the ball of her foot.
- 01:57
- And then we exit together.
- 01:59
- So that's for the followers
- 02:01
- and then for the leaders, uh, I want you to imagine that,
- 02:05
- uh, this, actually, let's do it with this angle
- 02:08
- that this happens, uh, this cross,
- 02:11
- because she's over here to one side of you.
- 02:13
- You go one, two steps forward,
- 02:15
- and then as you shift up, you rotate back
- 02:18
- to front. It's, and
- 02:19
- At the same time he's doing that, we're rotating de face.
- 02:22
- So ideally we mirror the rotation.
- 02:27
- So let's show it one last time.