Combinations Commonly in the Body of Tango Lore - 360 Degrees - We Each Do Our Part

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One reason we have for offering videos of so many different combinations is that we hope people will find a small number of them that they particularly like and learn those well. They can then, slowly, add these, for them, special, combinations to their working social vocabulary.

Artist Name:: Michael Allen Harrison
Song Title:: Tango Moon
Album Title:: Tango
Artist Website:: http://www.michaelallenharrison.com/

From the artist's website: Michael Allen Harrison delivers music to the heart. His classical contemporary style carves a distinct niche of timeless music that has connected with so many during his two and a half decade career.

00:04: This is a 360 degree turn...
00:07: ..and it’s not a single axis turn
or not too much.
00:12: And I really want you to focus
on the way the first two steps...
00:15: .. are about the leader
going around the follower...
00:16: ..and then the next over pivot
about the follower going around the leader.
00:21: So we each do our part.
00:24: First half of the step, the basic, I’ll just show.
00:31: And that’s normal and then
here’s where it stops being normal.
00:40: Breaking down the leader’s part.
00:44: After the thing, she's crossed.
00:47: Actually from here, I’m rotating my chest to my left
and I’m extending my foot forward.
00:53: So she’s going to step a little off the line.
00:56: Showing that to the camera…
00:57: ..here’s the cross and so she’s going
that way as I go forward.
01:03: So I go to the inside of her leg.
01:07: From the cross, just right here.
01:09: As she extends it back, you see
I’m extending inside her leg around her back leg…
01:15: ..or her reaching leg, her right leg.
01:18: After that - after that reach,
I go there and stand up.
01:22: She’s up but leaning back,
so that sort of gives extra room.
01:26: A little bit of colgada.
01:27: And I’ll step side around her,
so I have forward, side around her…
01:32: ..she’s in one place.
01:35: I’m on my right leg and then here it over pivots.
01:38: I say to her, really pivot
and she crosses almost by me.
01:42: And what that feels like almost is that…
01:44: ..I lean back to him and
he’s gotten me around by magic.
01:49: And then I have to reach further,
almost as if it's a back ocho.
01:54: A rather extreme back ocho.
01:56: Which we're then not going to complete.
01:57: I'll start further back.
02:09: Now for the followers,
I want you to think that you go by him.
02:14: So almost, if you’re -
if this is the leader and I’m the follower…
02:19: ..I’m going to pivot,
I’m going to go past the leader.
02:23: So I’m really cutting by him
with my back step, backwards.
02:31: In the lean, remember to hold in
and pull back a little bit with your back.
02:41: Like that.

Series:: Combinations Commonly in the Body of Tango Lore
Tags:: Cross, Vocabulary, Basic, Intermediate, Turning