A Sample Choreography - Part 2 - Fancy
We want to repeat ourselves and say again that this series of videos really is just to serve as an example to illustrate the concept that the easy formula for a performance is to have lots of short sections, each of which is really cool and very different from eachother. If you can make the divisions of these sections coincide with the divisions of the music, even better.
As you dance them, both of you should have a clear idea of what each section is about. Then this can be the thing that you accent in your dancing.
- Artist Name:
- Mandragora Tango
- Song Title:
- Adios Nonino
- Album Title:
- Let's Have Dinner And Go Dancing
- Artist Website:
- http://www.mandragoratango.com
From website: Mandrágora Tango is a tango band headed by bandoneonist Bob Barnes and guitarist Scott Mateo Davies, 2 Minneapolis-based musicians who are wildly passionate about tango. We have been playing tango for dancing and listening since 2001 and we are still going strong. We've played in over 40 cities all over the United States.
- 00:05
- So, in this next section, which starts after this lunge,
- 00:09
- We have two steps forward: one, two, for the leader; back for the follower.
- 00:13
- Forward on his left, back on her right. And, she'll lean back into a lunge, pointing with her leg.
- 00:18
- After these four. After that, we go:
- 00:21
- Four steps this way; and she goes into an attitude, with her right leg. Once again, off-axis.
- 00:27
- And then, finally, one lunge together. Showing that... but sketching.
- 00:31
- You've got: walk, walk; she goes off, and points.
- 00:36
- Four steps: one, two, three, four. Off, and attitude.
- 00:42
- I take her around me. We both go. We both cut; and points.
- 00:49
- And then we go into the prep for the trick.
- 00:52
- Oh, and a comment. The reason I took her around me in this section was so small was so we would fit in camera.
- 00:58
- So, when you do this, you don't have to keep it that small.
- 01:00
- So, I'm going to teach it small, the way we did it. But then, feel free to adjust it, so that it really travels.
- 01:08
- So, not being tied to the music, we've got, from our lunge:
- 01:12
- Two steps: one, two.
- 01:17
- And there's her lean away with the leg back in a lunge.
- 01:20
- Then, we come forward four. First two are together: one, two.
- 01:25
- Then, I start to turn her; three, four. And I step outside her left foot.
- 01:31
- I'm going to lift up, and back. That will correspond to her leg going back, and her body leaning away.
- 01:39
- I'm counter-weighting.
- 01:41
- It rotates. I'll step in place. We're cross-system, so I step her another time, around me...
- 01:49
- Make it even more around.
- 01:50
- ...Around me. We can both cut.
- 01:53
- And that lead is up and a little bit away, small C.
- 02:00
- And then, we have this lunge together.
