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Any advice for improving my lead in Argentine Tango?
Do you have any suggestions, tips or helpful advice ? I’m taking a class that covers a lot of material in Tango and sometimes I can’t soak up everything. I would like to hear any helpful info from people in the know !
Intimate and personal, a good tango dancer cannot be seen but felt. Completely focused on their partner, warm and sharing, concerned for how their three-minute partner feel, protecting them, making them look good at the expense of themselves. Like any relationship, it is the actions magnified 10-fold by the caring. Take a moment during the embrace to quiet and sigh and when ready, begin.
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December 23rd, 2009
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Take as many classes anywhere you can. From beginner to advanced, whether it’s too easy or too hard, you gotta try. Work on your flexibility everyday anytime you can, watching tv, etc. If you have no money to take classes, watch how to videos and study them on YouTube all the time. Get family/friends to help too. With anything, there’s always something to work on
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Traditionally, in the early days of tango in Buenos Aires men weren’t allowed to dance with women until they’d learned the woman’s part well (via dancing it with more experienced men). And that’s in a society in which homosexuality was not tolerated! If you haven’t danced the woman’s part, and if you can find a male instructor who’ll do it, try to learn the figures from the woman’s perspective. It helps some. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of repitition. As a ballroom dancer trying to learn Argentine, I’m having trouble with it, too! It’s a heck of a lot different from ballroom dances.
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You can start by attending as many tea socials as possible – the best way to learn is by doing. Leaders are always at a premium so finding partners will be easy. The hard part will be finding followers who will not back lead – ask your followers (especially friends) not to move at all unless the lead is clear.
Now that is the trickiest part of Argentine – unlike ballroom where the frame is oblivious, Argentine is intimate and subtle.
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I do a mass of ballroom, latin and swing dances – I can’t Argentine to save my life even though I know the mechanics of it.
Practice the simplest stuff you know, maybe just walking. Practice as much as possible, with a lot of different partners. Practice following; it’s very enlightening, it will make your leading much better. Find a "milonguero" style teacher in your town and take classes from them.
More than anything you just need to practice a lot. "You have to walk your miles" as they say. So relax and enjoy the ride; it’s going to take a long time to be good at tango. You may as well enjoy the process while it happens, no need to hurry. Tango rewards patience and stubbornness, which may be the same thing, I don’t know!
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Intimate and personal, a good tango dancer cannot be seen but felt. Completely focused on their partner, warm and sharing, concerned for how their three-minute partner feel, protecting them, making them look good at the expense of themselves. Like any relationship, it is the actions magnified 10-fold by the caring. Take a moment during the embrace to quiet and sigh and when ready, begin.
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15 years of Tango