While walking seems simple, it is composed of many interconnected more fundamental mechanics. With these exercises we seek to understand them (in a non abstract way), and to offer you a training method to improve.
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One time you have your sequences ready, study segments of them that could be reorganize as new sequences or as connectors between single elements. Prepare your sequences with elements from our video lessons at
Today, chatting over the phone with my brother, Carlos Solis, who lives in Argentina, about how to improve your Tango, he asked me if I think it is good to create a choreography, choosing a song and placing elements in order accordingly. While this is not a bad option, I suggested him instead to create brief sequences of 2 or 3 elements that you can do in a small space, like the ones we usually get at milongas, so when milongas resume, he can use them and adapt and reshape them as he moves on the line of dance. You can try the same. Here is one element to start. For more, go to http://escuelatangoba.com/marcelosolis/argentine-tango-resourses/classes-reviews/
To have control on the pace of your moves is a fundamental skill to dance Tango. By being able to slow down your walk, you become able to move at any speed.
How to give a sober response and gauge correctly among freedom, responsibility, emotions and desire? How to match a sense of duty with respect for the decisions of others? We always find out later what was wrong and what was correct. None else could be held accountable for our course of actions.
I accept your decisions and support you. I will be there if you want me to be there. I will have no recriminations if you decide to pass. I am not going to ask you anything if I don’t give you anything. If I don’t see you for a while, I will miss you; we can stay in touch and let each other know about us, our health and what worries us. I like to know about you. In the meantime, we can reflect on life and our own existence, and fundamentally, to improve.
How better your dance gets, is what I will always encourage myself to value in you.
I would like to seeing you emerging from this crisis as a better dancer, as a better being.
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Miranda's desire to learn Tango brought her to the Argentine Tango group Cambalache, over seventeen years ago, in her home-country Sweden. It was with them that she started to dance, learn the poetry of the Tango music and the culture of Tango, and later on how to transmit this art to others. At this point, Tango became a fundamental part of her life and who she is. In 2008 she moved to Paris, France...
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The positions can be called in Tango by the order they appear in the basic step. To change the speed at each position is a wonderful way of train and improve your dance.
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This exercise is very important to your Tango training. There you have all possible movements of Tango: forward step, backward step, forward and backward pivots, isolation of the torso, counter body movement, and turns.
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Mimi began her journey dancing Tango in 2013, under the training of Marcelo Solis. Today she continues her training with Marcelo, while also assisting him in group and private classes on an as-needed basis. Mimi travels frequently to Buenos Aires and has trained with several Maestros/as and Milongueros/as there.
As Tango requires many virtues, Mimi practices yoga to encourage growth in patience and self-awareness. And to become more attuned to the sense of self in motion with another, she has trained the Brazilian martial art, Capoeira.
More Argentine Tango at http://escuelatangoba.com/marcelosolis/. We are conditioned by our culture and education, and by our own experiences. When dancing, we put that on the table and observe. We see which changes we could make to improve ourselves, not only for the time we dance, but for all our existence.
A time that does not have time to dance is not worth it.
For those who do not dance: Some of them want to pretend to dance.
This is how most people live: they prefer to pretend to dance/live instead of dancing/living for real, although dancing/living exposes yourself transparently, while everybody else pretends to believe this pretension.
You can't dance Tango any other way than being passionately in love with your dance partner for the duration of a song.
When we were younger, much younger, in our childhood or when we were teens, we were free from all the commitments -choose by us or otherwise imposed-, those that we acquired later in life.
It was a good time to learn to dance, like the milongueros from the past did.
It would be good to free ourselves from all restrictions and mundane commitments every time we learn about anything in general, and Tango dancing in particular.
