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Friday (November 14)
November 15th, 2008
We had a short walk around El Once – the shopping district along Av. Corrientes – lots of Chinese stuff, but also some nice clothes likes dresses, skirts etc. Then we were off for the first tango class in El Beso with Oscar Casas. Excellent class of tango milonguero/de salon. We started with the idea of controlling the cross – first the forward cross, weight change and the back cross. Developing the idea of controlling the crosses we used them in different steps and combinations, developing our improvisation and creativity skills. The class was very long – 2 hours, however with a short break in the middle. Even though the class was long it kept us alert and active as Oscar was very skillfuly managing the different levels of the students and adding for example volcadas from a bacward cross for us. In the second part of the class we applied all possible crosses into giro.
Afterwards we went to Tango Brujo for another two very good classes -
Tecnica para tango, intermedio y avanzado with Martin Gutierezz & Samantha Di Paolo
– as a week before we started with the exercises for the posture and walk, then for coordination. Afterwards we worked on our boleos – controling the movement, using the disassocation, learning how to make them high or low etc. We ended up with the sequence of low and high boleo one after another, then gancho with tomada, another gancho, very interesting linear boleo combined later with the circular one and americana exit. A challenge for the balance and posture and precise lead :)
Tango intermedio y avanzado with Raul Masciocchi & Corina Herrera
– we started with the same idea as the last week – backward sacada for a man producing a turn for a woman. However, we didn’t continue with further sacadas and turns. We continued into the linear boleo and backward gancho for a woman… what we did later was too crazy to describe it ;) Anyway, lots of hard work and challenge!
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