Tag: Technique 76 videos
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The Embrace
Video which teaches the leader and follower how to hold each other for Argentine Tango. This video focuses on a slight open embrace. There are many different distances. -
Musicality
A video which discusses when to step and how to interpret the music relating to tango. There's a lot of freedom. As long as you make a choice, it's hard to go wrong. -
Line of Dance
A beginning video to introduce dancers to the skills they need to navigate the social floor. -
Honoring Axis
A key technique especially important when the follower is pivoting. A skill important to both leaders and followers. -
He's Pulling Me Off Balance
An int/adv topic that will enable the follower to dance beautifully despite the leader's not letting her have her axis. -
She's Pulling Me Off Balance
An int/adv topic that will enable the leader to dance beautifully despite the follower's pulling him off balance. -
He Doesn't Have a Lead
An int/adv topic that will enable the follower to dance beautifully despite the fact that her partner's lead is too light or ambiguous. -
She Has Noodle Arms
An int/adv topic that will enable the leader to dance beautifully despite the follower's lack of frame. -
He Rushes
An int/adv topic that will enable the follower to dance beautifully despite the leader's going too fast and pulling her off balance. -
She Rushes Ahead of My Lead
An int/adv topic that will enable the leader to dance beautifully despite the follower going too fast and therefore not following. -
No Slack in the System
Level: everyone needs this. Works on developing a crystal clear understanding of the mechanics behind a physical connection. -
Creating Chemistry Through Distance
Special topic. Discusses how you use intention to create chemistry and dispels 2 myths about chemistry. -
Moving the Body as One
An all levels video which explains one of the most important concepts behind tango, dance movement and more. -
Detailed Technique for 2 Embellishments
An int video which describes two embellishments in great detail. There is information is very transferable. -
Why They Look Good and We Don't
An all levels video gives the most common reasons performances look mediocre. -
Acting
An all levels video which discusses and demonstrates the importance and use of acting in a tango performance. -
Orientation
An all levels video describing how a few core ideas inform all of the steps. -
Deriving Front Ocho
An all levels video describing which core ideas shape front ocho. -
Deriving The Basic
An all levels video describing which core ideas shape the basic. -
Deriving Freno
An all levels video describing which core ideas shape the freno. -
Deriving Wrap
An all levels video describing which core ideas shape the wrap. -
Tango Possibilities: The Look
An int video which breaks down styling which is particularly relevant to Argentine tango. -
Take 2 - Sit in the Air
An int/adv performance oriented video which gives more technique for the execution of this lift. -
Dancing To The 1
An all levels video which teaches how to make the 1 more accented, that your movements should be bigger/stronger most of the time on the 1 beat of the music. -
Double Time
An int video which introduces techniques which enable fast movement and musical applications. -
Dancing Slower
An int video about letting the music inspire and inform your dancing, especially when slower. -
Metronome or Music?
All levels video about dancing to the music rather than just dancing to the beat. -
Singing Your Dance
An all levels video about how your dancing should show the accents in the music. -
Interacting With The Music
An adv video which shows how you don't only have to mirror what the music is doing. You can also have opinions about the rhythms in the music and show that in your dance. -
Not Stopping By Moving Through The Foot
An int video about not stopping by moving through the foot. -
How To Hover And When To Release
An int video which discusses the sense of suspension involved in dancing the vals. -
Comparing The Hover in Tango and Vals
An int video which compares the control in tango with the release in vals. -
Ebb and Flow
An int/adv video which discusses the way the variation in timing and the sense of the build and release of momentum can add to the dance. -
It's All About The Center
A video for all levels which shows how to make movements come from the center to make movements more true. -
Spiral Around The Center
A video for all levels which uses a rotation of the body as an example to help people be more integrated in their movement. -
The Center Moving
A video for all levels which focuses on the way that the center can initiate movement through space. -
How Space Gives Meaning
Special topic: Discusses the need for the partners to be aware of the space in between them and to send their energy toward their partner rather than away. -
On Being Present With Your Partner
A beg/int video which discusses practical concerns when you want to stay present when dancing socially. -
A Shared World
A beg/int video which discusses maintaining both follower and leader energy and some attention to their partner when dancing. -
Doing It With Your Whole Body
An Int video which discusses and demonstrates moving with the entire body which enables lead/follow. -
Raw Sexuality
An all levels video which teaches the phycial techniques which communicate raw sexuality. -
Tenderness
An all levels video which teaches the phycial techniques which communicate tenderness. -
Stillness And Listening
An all levels video teaches the use of attentiveness to enable a different kind fo connection through incredibly small movements. -
Exercises For Awareness
An all levels video which gives exercises to encourage awareness of what your partner is doing and of the mechanics of the movement. -
The Free Leg - The Basics
An int/adv video which clarifies the mechanics between the leader and follower involved in moving the follower's leg in any direction. Core technique. -
Circles And Cool Differences
An adv video which builds on the earlier videos in the series. It shows how the movement of the follower's free leg can create many exciting possibilities. -
Being More Profoundly Together
An int/adv video which breaks a step into 3 pieces, extension, propulsion and collection. Sounds mechanical, feels divine. -
Float To Through
A int video which shows an small intermediate walking combination designed to have a clear character. -
Ochos To Not
A beg/int video which teachs a zigzag back ocho combination. -
Ochos
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' ochos. -
Basic
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' basics. -
Media Vuelta
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' media vueltas. -
Freno
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' frenos. -
Boleo
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' boleos. -
Gancho
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' ganchos. -
Drag
A beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for leaders' drags. -
Ochos
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' ochos. -
Basic
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' basics. -
Media Vuelta
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' media vueltas. -
Freno
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' frenos. -
Boleo
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' boleos. -
Gancho
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' ganchos. -
Drag
An beg/int video which teaches more in depth technique for followers' drags. -
Basic Essence
An all levels video highlighting what the basic is about for the leader and the follower. -
Ocho Essence
An all levels video highlighting what ochos are about for the leader and the follower. -
Media Vuelta Essence
An all levels video highlighting what media vuelta is about for the leader and the follower. -
Freno Essence
An all levels video highlighting what freno is about for the leader and the follower. -
Gancho Essence
An all levels video highlighting what the gancho is about for the leader and the follower. -
Drag Essence
An all levels video highlighting what the drag is about for the leader and the follower. -
Boleo Essence
An all levels video highlighting what the boleo is about for the leader and the follower. -
Easier Pivots
An int/adv video which helps followers pivot more easily. -
Larger Lunges
An beg/int video which teaches how to make lunges look and feel larger. -
Powerful Walking
An int video which shows how a dancer can have power behind his walk the way a singer can have support underneath his breath or a golfer can have drive in his swing. -
Follower
An int/adv video for the follower which teaches things the followers can do to help both leader and follower with their balance. They help make the molinette feel controlled and clear. -
Leader
An int/adv video for the leader that helps give balance and control in the molinette enabling much fancier things. -
Close Embrace
An int/adv video which updates molinette technique for close embrace some of which changes substantially.
