Gancho - Variation Principles - Interrupting Travel
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- One of the really fun things about Tango is
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- that there's a lot of choreographic freedom.
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- That it's not like there's this particular
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- step and you do that.
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- It's that instead, uh,
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- you can do essentially whatever you want anytime you want.
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- And, and this is, uh, going into that discussion.
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- So when we talk about gancho, uh,
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- first I wanna make the observation that you can do gancho
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- where the follower goes around you
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- as if it were a back ocho, but you interrupt that back OCHO
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- and then you have a gancho show
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- that same one from another angle.
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- So you're doing a back OCHO for the leaders.
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- For the followers notice we will just keep doing back
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- cocho for the followers.
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- Notice that you have to go
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- around him in the circle right here.
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- So you have to pi pivot extra
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- so you stay close to enough and
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- It's far around.
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- And if we don't go far enough around
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- and stay close to him, we're all off balance in the
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- gancho, not not pretty.
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- And you can do that on either side.
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- So we could do it on this side, for example,
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- as if she were going to do a back ocho.
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- Um, and it can be done with either leg.
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- It's either side for either partner,
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- Right? So instead of, uh,
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- so here maybe I don't change my weight.
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- Let's do a couple back ojos first. Just because
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- When you're doing back ocho,
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- make sure you get over the ball of the foot before you go
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- Followers. And maybe
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- I change weight here
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- and maybe this gancho happens if she gets out of the way
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- with me presenting my right leg
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- and notice that I have my knee faced away from where her,
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- her leg iss going to be going.
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- And, and that position is the same position
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- as if you were doing mote.
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- So you could do a monetta, for example.
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- Um, let's go to the other side just for variety.
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- You can say, well I'm gonna do a mote.
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- And likewise there's that gancho.
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- It's way fun.
