Tag: Vocabulary 69 videos
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Possibilities: Wacky Examples
An int/adv video which illustrates the generality of this approach. -
Dancing to 4 8's
An int video which discusses the way a typical song is put together with the idea that you can have your dancing mirror that. -
Turning Six Count Box
A beg/int video which turns the six count box and teaches doing it with vals rhythm. -
Turning Left Foot Basic
An int video which adapts the left foot basic to vals rhythm. -
Floating Through Ocho
An int video which teaches a back ocho combination which accents the sense of hover and suspension. -
In Honor of Tete
An adv video which teaches a turning lean that Tete did. He is our favorite vals dancer. -
Push Cross To Rock
An int video which teaches a close embrace combination which involves rocks and the leader pushing the follower's thigh to get her to cross. -
Double Time Separate And Together
An into video which is about playing with rhythm in close embrace. -
Rhythmic Direction Changes
A video which teaches a really cool combination about changing direction with some double time thrown in. -
Side Trap And ...
A beg/int video which shows a lyrical close embrace figure. -
First Rhythmic Molinette
An intermediate+ step where the follower goes in a molinette to the leader's right as he also steps rhythmically. This combination is about the couple moving together in rhythm around each other. -
Va Y Ven
A beautiful intermediate combination about travelling, turning and then unwinding. Literally translated, it means: go and come -
360 Degrees - We Each Do Our Part
An intermediate combination where the full turn starts with the leader's sacada and ends with the follower stepping back around the leader. -
Gancho Inside
An int video showing the follower in front of the leader regardless of which leg is doing the gancho or being gancho-ed. -
Gancho Outside
An int video showing the follower more to the leader's side or towards behind and can be done for either leg. -
Forward Sacada Basics
Int vocabulary to enable beautiful forward sacadas so that the couple moves together and is balanced. The leader takes the follower's space going through her leg. -
Calecita
An int step where the leader walks around the follower while the follower is on one leg. -
Hook Behind
An int idea which describes the mechanics to get the follower to do a back cross. -
Gancho - Overturned Outside
An adv video which shows an unusual gancho possible only because the follower pivots a huge amount. -
Gancho - From Her Side
An adv video which shows a logical place for gancho but one that is rarely taught because there is less time separation and the foot placement is even more critical. -
Gancho - Overturned Inside
An adv video which shows a gancho from a normal position with an unusual leg Because the followers are almost back to the leader's front, it's both more dramatic and more requiring of consciousness of her axis. -
Gancho - Is It Boleo Or Is It Gancho?
An adv video which shows a gancho with the 'funny' leg enabled by a ridiculously large pivot. -
Kicks: It's All One
An int video which explores the sameness of both the lead and the dynamic behind ganchos, boleos and kicks. -
Boleo And Gancho
An int video which highlights the principles of the earlier video as they apply to boleos and ganchos in greater detail. -
Linear Boleo
An int video which highlights the principles of the earlier video as they apply to a linear boleo. -
Kick Between The Legs
An int video which highlights the principles of the earlier video as they apply to kicks between the legs. -
Kick Between The Legs, Back Boleo
An int/adv video which explores the similarity in the throw/catch of the boleo and of a kick -
Trading Vueltas
An int/adv video which is about having the partners rotate around eachother, each of them in turn doing a media vuelta. -
Shared Vuelta
An int video which exaggerates the follower's pivot and the leader/follower twin the media vuelta. -
In Honor Of Orlando Paiva
An int/adv video which shows a media vuelta that goes to an unusual freno variation with an amague exit. It's choreography by our favorite tango choreographer. -
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. -
One Becomes Two
An int video where the leader takes one steps while the follower takes two. -
About The Cross - Not Crossing
An intermediate concept crossing the follower without a weight change and then exiting. -
Right Side Basic
An intermediate combination which turns to the leader's right (to the dark side) and is a quirky winding variation ispired by the basic. -
Basic With Delayed Weight Change
A beg/int combination which is another turning variation on the basic. It replaces the leader's weight change with a step and then turns, smoothing out the edges. -
Trapped Cross In Place
An int video where the leader drags the follower's foot into a cross. -
Lending A Helping Foot
An int video which teaches a variation on the basic where the leader leads the cross with his foot. A very different take on an old favorite. -
Push Cross
An int video which teaches another variation on the basic, this time leading the cross with the leader's thigh. The use of interpersonal space is fun and fascinating. -
Pivoting Through Eachother
An adv video which teaches a complex combination with pivots emphasizing togetherness, molinetes and sacadas. -
Varied Going Around Eachother
An adv video which teaches a complex combination with parts of media vuela, sacada, drag, basic and freno. -
Weaving Back and Forth
An adv video which teaches a complex combination with media vuelta, freno and front ocho. -
Touch Back Ocho Entrance
An advanced combination based on molinette where the exit of the molinette blends into an overturned back ocho. Nancy likes it because it flies. -
Turning Woven Lunge
An advanced combination starting with a large turn blending into a spiraled lunge. -
Man's Shaping
An adv video which teaches some advanced styling and embellishments that leaders can do during a molinette. -
Molinette With Kicks
An adv video which teaches kicking between the follower's legs during a molinette and the techniques which allow the leader and follower to move together and be safe. -
Man's Free Leg In Molinette
An adv video which teaches the leader a series of different advanced styling and embellishments which can be done during a molinette. -
Pivoting From Front Ocho To Back Ocho
A beg/int video which shows how to use a pivot as a transition between front and back ochos. -
Walking From Front Ocho To Back Ocho
A beg/int video which shows how to use a step as a transition from front ochos to back ochos. -
Front Ocho Around To Back Ocho
A int video which shows how to interrupt an ocho with a step and then go back into ochos where the follower goes around the leader. -
Lunge Step Lunge
An int/adv performy combination which falls into a lunge which travels. -
Lunge To Lean To Lunge
An int/adv combination which uses a lean as an unexpected transition in and out of the lunge. -
Walking In Colgada
An adv video where the couple walks in various directions while leaning away. -
Prep For Cadena - Man's Gancho
An int combination where the leader displaces the follower's leg as he goes around her and then the leader ganchos the follower. -
Prep For Cadena - Drag
An int combination where the follower displaces the leader's leg followed by a drag. -
Cadena
An adv combination where the partners alternatively displace each other as they go around each other. A typical performance combination. -
Trading Back Sacadas
An advanced combination where the leader and the follower alternatively back sacada each other, frequently done by performers to show off. -
Walking Sacadas Into Front Ochos
An advanced combination where the follower crazy over pivots the front ochos and the leader front sacadas. -
Sacadas In Molinette
An advanced combination exploring taking of space by the leader as he steps through her as she does the molinette. The last video exploring standard advanced sacada combinations. -
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. -
Push Pull
An int/adv video which discusses the dynamic between the leader and follower which can create a soft lean towards the leader (volcada) and then away from the leader (colgada). -
Dodging The Bullet
An int/adv video which has the leader diving past the follower as she steps forward in order to slingshot her around him. -
Riding The Wave
An int/adv video which shows the leader giving the follower a ton of momentum as she goes around him and then taking it back so the leader can rider this momentum to pivot around.
