Wednesday, July 14, 2021

A longtime tango experience!

 According to the owner of the site below, he started to dance tango 1954! So he has a quite long experience of the dance and the content!

Try to reach him via this link:

Video Instruction | Argentine Tango Syllabus | San Diego




Sunday, July 4, 2021

Monday, May 24, 2021

DarkHorse Podcast with Iona Italia & Bret Weinstein



This is a long interview so they can drill into subjects thoroughly!

Bret Weinstein is not dancing tango but he still makes good and insightful questions and summarizes the thoughts discussed nicely.


Sunday, May 23, 2021

My favorite reckless leaders with a matching follower!

 The careless freedom in their dance is a relief! 

Check it with your own eyes!                                      

Roberto Reis has been one of my top reckless leaders and Guillermina Quiroga is the perfect, adventurous match in this milonga!




Another reckless leader of a later date is Maximiliano Cristiani here with Jesica Arfenoni!




Thursday, May 13, 2021

Gavito + Maria inspired OCHO-baridas!

Around 3.40 in this video Gavito and Maria do a fantastic ocho/barida combo!

The follower's knee is resting towards the leader's and when Maria's forward ocho is advancing the leader's foot is travelling on the floor! 

You can easily modify the size of ochos and be in heaven when the pista is hardly mowing forward!
(on a fast pista use something else!  :)  )



One couple among our local teachers were intense followers of Cavito teaching that style. I participated in one of their courses in 2005. That time as a follower. Lately I have had quite a lot of spare time to spend on my videos of workshop summaries. On one of the summaries, they used this figure but more relaxed with ordinary ochos with feet smoothly moving on the floor while bodies rested in apilado light. Such a beautiful way to move!

Sunday, April 25, 2021

A visual fantasy! - Crossed sacada and rebounds

There have been so many fantastic items popping up when people have time to express their creativity!

                       I just love the way these videos have been set up! Their steps surprises me!                     


                   

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The vanishing art of the milongueros

 

The blog Tango Voice has longer, thorough articles about tango. There is a lot of interesting and important information available! 

The link below will present you with some of the most prominent milongueros and in the end, you find a list of video links to their dance.


Click here and you will travel to the posting!           




To start with here is a Ricardo Vidort, Tango: Tigre viejo; video still smooth and appreciated!




https://tangovoice.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/the-vanishing-art-of-the-milongueros-studying-recordings-of-their-dancing-that-preserve-their-legacy/ 

Sunday, February 7, 2021

How did Naveira start his tango and met his friends?

 Here you have a link to an interview with Gustavo Naveira! It gives you the story of his life with tango from the age of 20 and the years with Fabian Salas as well as the first time with Chicho, a person with the talent for painting, music, acting as well as for dancing.

Find more by hanging on to the article by clicking the link below.

Gustavo Naveira with amigos interview!


About learning Gustavo says this:

But the real point is:  if you take written notes instead of just making a video of yourself, it's true that you may never look at the notes again either.   But the ACT of making the notes will start to change the way you think about your tango. You will find a way to analyze and explain what you are doing to yourself in symbolic terms.  These symbols will become valuable tools for you to analyze the tango you do and the tango you see others do, and will remain at your disposal when you are improvising the social dance.  So the act of writing notes about your lessons WILL make you a better dancer, much more than the act of operating your camera.  


 Gustavo Gisel-Ann Chicho Juana




 

Saturday, February 6, 2021

About Ants but isn't this about NAVIGATION?


Isn' t this actually about navigating on the pista?

... but tango is much more simple. We all are advancing to same direction: aren't we?

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Passive or Active way of listening for improvement!

Leo and his wife Flor have organized the Seoul tango festival for many, many years! Their teaching reaches even further back in time!

His main idea presented here is the most effective way to improve your musicality in dance: Are you listening PASSIVELY or ACTIVELY? that is the question!



Monday, January 18, 2021

How to analyze music and listen with full focus!


She uses and teaches this as a method for choreography creation! But it is not the only possibility!

This could help me to focus and understand what kind of musical phenomenon I like and how I would like to express them on a milonga! Not as a prepared choreography but like an instant intuitive move on the dance floor!

A tango film about why we dance

  https://youtu.be/QFs1VGbTnls