Big Pivots - Advanced - Touch Back Ocho Entrance
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For Followers: There is a forward step, a pivot, a side step and a pivot. Basically, that is this combination, as she goes around him. While it does not really look it, that is half a molinette. We say this, because we wan to call your attention to how very common molinette technique is in a great many combinations. It's there even when it doesn't look that way.
- Artist Name:
- Zigatango
- Song Title:
- Tango from Scent of a Woman
- Album Title:
- Zigatango
From cd baby writeup: Zigatango reworks Argentinean tango and traditional Gypsy music with a rare youthful flair exposing a burning intensity of emotion, often combined with a wild, almost demonic energy.
- 00:05
- So, this is going to start: side, forward,
I pivot, so she steps… - 00:09
- ..turn her around me, pivots more, back ochos.
- 00:13
- If we’re breaking it down, I'm tempted to say,
“See we broke it down, you got it.” - 00:17
- D: No not quite.
N: It’s just magic. - 00:20
- So first two steps: leader, side, forward,
follower side, back. - 00:23
- Right here, I’m going to pivot to my left
so she can go around me. - 00:28
- And I’m not going to step too big.
And I’m not going to open my hips. - 00:31
- So it’s not this, and it’s not this.
- 00:37
- Right, so it stays in the circle around me.
- 00:41
- Now, as she steps forward,
the same side step as all the others. - 00:44
- Don’t go too small.
- 00:45
- I’ll step forward to her back foot,
well, actually a little bit less in this case. - 00:49
- Taking around.
- 00:54
- Push off with the back foot
so she can step side around me... - 00:56
- ..step in place, here are our back ochos.
- 01:02
- Once again, showing just for the leaders, side,
forward, pivot her, step as you make her step… - 01:12
- ..pivot through, change weight, back ochos.
- 01:17
- For the followers, it starts, side, back.
- 01:22
- As he pivots without stepping, you step around him,
he’ll go with you as you step... - 01:27
- .. forward, side, back, like a molinette into back ochos on that back step.
- 01:38
- We can show, but I wanted to say for the followers...
- 01:41
- ..no matter how fast the leader is going
make sure you’re over the ball of your foot... - 01:45
- ..and you're balanced before you take the next step.
- 01:46
- Otherwise, you can pull both of you over.
- 02:01
- From another angle.
