Classes for Beginners
ARGENTINE TANGO for Beginners -5-classes Series Each level has 5 classes.
Program:
Program:
- Basic information about Argentine Tango:
- Tango, Tango–Waltz and Milonga
- Leading and following
- Basic floor craft (navigation skills)
- Tango ethics and rituals
- Styles of tango dancing
- The history of tango
- Movement:
- Body axis and posture in tango, separation of the upper and lower body
- Contact with floor in tango
- Changing weight and walking in tango
- Parallel and cross-system walking
- Forward, backward, side and rock steps
- Forward and backward ochos (pivoting)
- Cross in tango
- Cambios de frente
- Ocho cortado
- Pasadas, barridas
- El molinete
- Basic combinations of steps, improvising with flexibility
- Connection:
- Tango Embrace (close, half-open, open)
- Frame
- Connection between partners, listening to each other, sensitivity
- Emotional involvement in tango dancing and sharing positive energy
- Musicality and Rhythm:
- Music for tango (traditional, electrotango, neotango and alternative music)
- Rhythm (single and syncopated, dramatic, hard and soft/smooth)
- Playing with rhythm
- Open-minded improvising to the music