Front Ochos - Dance Technique
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- When we think about what's some
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- of the key dance principles that you can port into ocho,
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- there is some for followers, some
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- for leaders, for followers.
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- The real risk, horrible risk, once again,
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- is disconnecting the top and the bottom.
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- That there's this idea that, oh, I need to pivot.
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- And now if, if someone were
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- to look at me, who is this person?
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- This person is someone who's very uncomfortable.
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- Maybe they have indigestion or something like that.
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- And you don't want to be, oh,
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- I have indigestion when I'm dancing tango.
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- You know that it looks this way. Uh,
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- and so, so the question is, well, why do I look
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- so uncomfortable when I do this?
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- And well, there's this weird distortion in my shoulder.
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- There's this over rotation in my waist.
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- Oh, my shoulder doesn't need to be uncomfortable.
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- And the rotation doesn't have to only come from my waist,
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- and now I look like a,
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- a comfortable person rather than an uncomfortable one.
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- Um, so this pivot then, uh, you want
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- to think your whole body is involved in the pivot.
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- Yes, there's your hands, there's through your back,
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- through your waist, and then
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- that lets you pivot in a comfortable way.
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- And so really learning how to pivot
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- and feel like not one,
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- one segment isn't doing too much of the work.
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- So then once again, right here,
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- I feel this twist through the whole thing.
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- And you can feel your whole spine like a
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- coiled serpent you could call it.
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- Um, and then your shoulders are relaxed.
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- They don't have to work too hard.
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- Um, and then that way that the different pieces
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- of the spine correspond,
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- I'm gonna call the mapping within the spine of the pivot.
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- So that's for the followers, for the leaders.
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- Uh, once again, this pivot should come, uh,
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- primarily from your, from your, i, I assert,
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- let's call it hips center, low back, all of this area
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- rather than coming from this area.
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- And so you'll hear some pe So, so many people,
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- when they're beginners, they,
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- they lead the pivot from the arms
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- and then they get a little better.
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- Or maybe they have a teacher who says, well,
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- you lead it from your chest.
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- Um, and then you get this,
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- which is my chest, moving my arms.
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- Yes, but it's still too much.
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- And you notice my waist,
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- my hips actually are not moving at all.
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- I, I used to think that was an ideal way,
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- but I've since, since changed.
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- And then you could say, well, I'll move it
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- lower, and now it's in my center.
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- This is better, much better.
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- But it's in my center with my, uh,
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- hips not helping.
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- And now you can say, watch the hips
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- and the hip, the, the center can
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- and the hip together can move the body.
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- And then that makes it like a, a, a mack truck,
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- something in low gear, powerful.
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- And you, that that's what you want your father to say.
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- Oh, yes, Bob, he's powerful.
