To maintain the contact . . . . . .

 To maintain a tiny contact and dance together!  

A Barbel Rücker video    

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.

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!

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!

Let’s talk about pivot - In Silent Movie way! :)

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!                     

                   

Tightrope walk in high heels - Guinness World Records

Some take the heels really high! 

   For me, the pista is high enough!

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/ 

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

 

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?

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!

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!

Insight To Tango - environment and music

The times were hard.

More about the music. The way to clean the old recordings. Check out!

( http://totango.net/  )

One simple and fast tip to give you an idea about music period!

This could maybe help me on the way to get a rough idea about the birth year!

tango a la Stockholm an odd combination

Argentine tango steps when music and song is Finnish tango! 

                                                                 But they are having a nice evening!

     

TANGO - PASSO 031 - SOLTADA

A figure for all ages!  :)

 Juan and Juana channel have a bunch of songs showing how they want to present the rhythms available. One of the pieces is a queen of simplicity with a repetitive pattern but still offering the listener a variation keeping the mind joyfully focused! It feels so to me;

How about you? after several hearings?

Los Ritmos del Tango - 12 Tresillos de Negra del Tiempo Simple - [1ay-3ay-]
https://youtu.be/UkOwsCGyTD8

Pocho Pizarro Dances With Brooms

A good time to pick up this dancing isn't it!

Roxana and Sebastian in my heart!

 I have followed them on youtube for ages and they have always been among my top favorites. In 2018, at last, I got the opportunity to see a live performance with them.  To see them dance Tormenta, a song by Carlos di Sarli my world stopped! I was so hard touched by their dance, by their art! 

Later on I thought that I will  N E V E R  be able to dance that song myself. My steps would never honer the song deep enough.  -  but - when the song was played in the middle of a tanda I couldn't leave the follower on the pista but danced it and I survived! 

https://youtu.be/03oL-SZyR_s 

Tango BA: los campeones del Mundial de Baile 2020

They have the competition even this year but in a very different form! 

Here an explanation!

There were different categories and here the playlists for the dancers for the pista and scene!

There were ten couples for the pista. Which of them was/is your favorite?

Here come the other dancers!

You will find the results here and via the Spanish link below even more information!

Estilo Tango de Pista
Puesto 1. Louise Junqueira Malucelli y Marcos Esteban Roberts / CABA, Argentina
6530 votos
Puesto 2. Raquel Makow y Maxi Copello / CABA, Argentina
6478 votos
Puesto 3) Iara Duarte y Jesús Paez / CABA, Argentina
3652 votos
Puesto 4. Mayi Yepes Arboleda y Camilo Bernal Varela / Medellín, Colombia
2952 votos
Puesto 5. Ezgi Ömüriş y Alejandro Beron / El Jaguel, Pcia. BA, Argentina
2276 votos
Puesto 6. Becky Navarro y Lucas Robañera / Bahía Blanca, Pcia. BA, Argentina
2140 votos
Puesto 7. Maureen Urrego y Carlos Urrego / New Orleans, Estados Unidos
1316 votos
Puesto 8. Valentina Bertanzon y Marco Morari / Verona, Italia
1057 votos
Puesto 9 Julia Osina y Stanislav Becker / Moscú, Rusia
771 votos
Puesto 10. Irem Öztürk Eliassen y Gøran Eliassen / Bergen, Noruega
440 votos

Estilo Tango Escenario
Puesto 1. Diana Franco Durango y Valentín Arias Delgado / Manizales, Colombia
7833 votos
Puesto 2. Lola Gutierrez Rey y Emmanuel Marin / Mar del Plata, Argentina
6310 votos
Puesto 3. Iara Duarte y Jesús Paez / San Telmo, CABA, Argentina
4433 votos
Puesto 4. Eliana Almeciga y Carlos Arias / Medellín, Colombia
3475 votos
Puesto 5. Tanya Gutierrez y Sebastian Avendaño / Medellín, Colombia
2027 votos

EXTRA information about the other categories via the link below!

https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/festivalesba/noticias/el-mundial-de-baile-2020-de-tango-ba-ya-tiene-sus-campeones-elegidos-por-el

https://youtu.be/enO1_dWnlUM