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Tango Ladies Balance… soooo important in tango and yet soooo frustrating! Isn’t it?!? It took me years to be able to dance in close embrace without losing my balance (because I got ahead of myself and stopped going to close after six months, ahem, then spent a fortune on private lessons to compensate for lost […]
Category Archives: Technique
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Jan
Jan
**Tango Dancers** Are you finding it hard to dance in close embrace with tall leaders? Or are you a leader who is not sure about how to adapt your embrace to smaller partner? If yes, you are not alone 🙂 Sue asked us that question on Facebook last week – how do I dance in […]
15
Jan
Jan
Confused about Projection in the Tango Dance? Wondering how to take powerful steps without losing the close embrace? Not quite sure what to do with your legs when dancing tango? Push? Relax? When I started out, I was soooo confused about ‘Projection’, and what it means, and how to take powerful steps while staying connected […]
15
Jan
Jan
The most beautiful thing about tango is probably the fact that we care more about our partner feeling good and happy than about us looking good.. isn’t it?? Now, how to do that, especially in close embrace? When we’re moving together, especially in close embrace, it’s easy to put just a little bit too much […]
Technique
Too intimate? Too challenging? Why you should learn dancing in Close Embrace from the get go
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Jun
Jun
Hello tango dancers! Struggling with Tango’s Close Embrace? Feeling that it is too intimate or too challenging? We love the Close Embrace, and make it easy so that our students can be more creative and elegant! A lot of the students who come to our classes do so because here at Tango Space we have […]
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May
May
Feeling that you are often losing your balance when dancing but not sure why? Knees hurting after a milonga? Lacking power in your pivots? It might have to do with how your dissociate! This week, we will be covering enrosques in our classes, which depend a lot on dissociation. However, dissociation is often misunderstood, which costs […]
28
Mar
Mar
This week in our classes in London we are teaching changing dynamics in the dance. It is a very important ‘concept’, as it makes our tango much more exciting. Take all the fundamentals of tango (walking, ochos, half-giro, giro, etc…), play with dynamics and a world of limitless possibilities opens up. So today we wanted to […]
14
Mar
Mar
Looking to add flavor to your tango dancing? Learn about going from close to open embrace! When you know how to switch from close to open embrace you can play with different levels of connection, various types of dynamics, with the size of your embellishments… the possibilities are limitless. What matters then is that the […]
16
Jan
Jan
Today, we are doing something a little bit different. We want to help you identify precisely how you can improve your tango in the coming months. Here are 8 common tango mistakes that we regularly help our students correct No dancer does all of them, but they are mistakes that are easy to develop. If unchecked, they […]
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Oct
Oct
But if there one movement for which women have most of the responsibility it is the giro. Yes, ladies. In the giro, we are the ones creating power through the whole sequence, and bringing stability to the embrace. Let’s make them shine too! Our leaders are constantly offering us opportunities to shine with decorations: they […]