OK..I am up to my neck in Tango classes..almost every night of the week I am in
a class,
practica or milonga. It is costing me upwards of $250 a month (Astrid will
be happy).
I am taking class from three different teachers..one professes 'connection'
and 'musicality'.
other is just a darn good teacher who has taught almost all of the good
women that I've had
the luck to dance with. The third is an Argentine Tango Nuevo star who is
the real deal
and so I am in the class.
This last teacher is the one I want to talk about. When he announced that
'This is the
basic eight which you will be using for the rest of your Tango life'...I
winced but was there
for whatever he showed us.... we practised the basic eight for the first
1 1/2 hrs class..
what I liked is that we did it again and again and again and again...I
got to try it several
times with his partner a pro and she critiqued my form...I made a lot of
mistakes..
I got some of it corrected. We used a variation which included a
forward cross from
where step five would ordinarily lead to a back cross.. we followed in
the next class
with another eight count series that included back ochos and front
ochos etc etc..
very sophisticated stuff...for me.. I will continue with the next
post.
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