"Dancing Argentine Tango Socially. A Talk on Milonga Codes", by Josefina Bermudez & Fabian Peralta

Rules of the road :: Felipe Martinez:: SF Tango Marathon

RULES OF THE ROAD

Treat each other with COURTESY and RESPECT. We may have different styles, opinions, values in tango (and elsewhere), but we all share the same passion.

Invitation: Use CABECEO. Followers, be proactive. Leaders, be clear with your intention, invite with a nod and re-confirm before you approach the follower.

Entrance: Catch the eye of the approaching leader and receive acknowledgement before entering the floor. Merge smoothly and move with the flow of the ronda right away.

Flow: Move with the ronda - do not hold up traffic and do not overtake. If bumping, apologize even if it is not your fault.

Exit: Leaders, accompany the follows to their seats and CLEAR THE FLOOR after the tanda. This allows dancers to use cabeceo to invite a partner for the next dance.

Absolutely NO TEACHING on the dance floor.

Safety: Any harassment or abusive behavior is unacceptable. If you feel threatened, let the staff know immediately.

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This has been floating around in various edits/iterations for some time now. Original Concept/Design Credit goes to Dirk Apitz. Edits by AlexTangoFuego May 2018. Honoring the Line of Dance (long version, 2 pages) editing credit goes to Sugar G.

The impeccable floorcraft/Uncle Sam QR code link is here. Daniel Boardman - Albuquerque Tango Festival.

Figure out how to reach me and I'll send you the original high-res files so you can print, share, save, etc.

Discussion/comments/suggest edits/disagreement encouraged in the comments section.



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Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: PROHIBIDOS LOS BOLEOS ALTOS EN PISTA LLENA

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Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: PROHIBIDO DAR CLASE DURANTE EL BAILE

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Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: PROHIBIDO DESCUIDAR EL ASEO PERSONAL

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Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: PROHIBIDO HABLAR AL BAILAR

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Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: CIRCULACIÓN OBLIGATORIA DE LA PISTA

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DEAR FRIENDS MILONGUEROS DE ARGENTINA AND THE WORLD !!! 🌎

🔥HOY🔥 We finally arrive at the last short of the milonguera and educational production of www.hoy-milonga.com "CODES OF COEXISTENCE AMONG MILONGUEROS"

🎁 For those who could not come, I tell you that this video we premiered with all the emotion of being all together, last Friday, November 10 at the unforgettable birthday party No. 5 of our site 🎊 Great party great jejeje🎈

We present the last two codes ⭕ "MANDATORY CIRCULATION IN THE TRACK" & also the most important and essential code of all for THERE TO BE GENUINE AND REAL TANGO ...
❤ "OBLIGATORY DANCING WITH THE HEART" ❤

With you, the beautiful people who made this possible: (THANK YOU, THANK YOU AND MORE THANKS FOR ALL WE WANT THEM !!!)

Retorted that go backwards on the track:

Atilio Veron Mi Refugio with
Susanna Pirjo Rapo (from Hoy Milonga)

And the Nadias of Hoy Milonga, Nadia Funes & Nadia Spens

"The" Master who comes to put order on the track, our beloved dancer, director, choreographer of a lot of tango and great heart ... Olga Besioooooo Olga Besio II Olga Besio Olga Besio

Master musicians who sweetened our ears and lit our legs !!!
Duet "Salvando las Distancias" Fernando Rezk on bandoneon and Miguel Barci on guitar

Milongueros dancing with all their hearts

Adriana Argentina Frossasco
Omar Viola
Martin Chili
Suyai Serpa
Manuel Gonzalez
Majo Marini
German Ballejo
Magdalena Gutierrez
Carla Tango Tango
Maria Oliva
Federico Piperno
Karin Dhadamus
Niv Sardi
Roberto Ubaldo Soto
Daniel Ricardo Adra
Natalia Peña
Tamara Valdivia Mio Tango
Susana Beia
Jorge Nelson Farias L
Noe Andino
Leonardo Salvador Guerra
Leonardo Chinchilla

*** If someone was missing, please let us know! Sometimes it can happen, we are many and there is a lot of work :)

💜 Thanks again everyone, everyone! For this beautiful experience, for having put the heart to all the filming, for the laughter, the jokes, for the endurance of always !!!! We hug them strong strong❤

💜 Thanks Doris Bennan, you were right "Los Laureles" has that thing that makes everything look spectacular !!!

Visual production: Colectivo Ladran Caravana a first class team, not only professionally but humanly, thanks Luz Balaña, Cristian and Jeremias Ferreri for everything, everything and for having come to premiere with us and to share a night that we will never forget 💜

Meet them! https://hoy-milonga.com/.../Buenos-Aires*...

THIS IS THE LAST OF THIS SERIES, BUT IT IS NOT THE END ... WE REJECT! 🔥

💜 FOR MANY MORE THINGS, ALWAYS TOGETHER MILONGUEROS 💜

THANK YOU UNTIL PRONTITO ...

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QUERIDOS AMIGOS MILONGUEROS DE ARGENTINA Y DEL MUNDO!!!🌎

🔥HOY🔥 LLegamos al fin al último corto de la producción milonguera y educativa de www.hoy-milonga.com "CÓDIGOS DE CONVIVENCIA ENTRE MILONGUEROS"

🎁 Para los que no pudieron venir, les cuento que este video lo estrenamos con toda la emoción de estar todos juntos, el pasado Viernes 10 de Noviembre en la inolvidable fiesta de cumpleaños Nº 5 de nuestro sitio 🎊 Gran fiesta gran jejeje🎈

Les presentamos los dos últimos códigos ⭕ "CIRCULACIÓN OBLIGATORIA EN LA PISTA" & además el código mas importante y escencial de todos para que HAYA TANGO GENUINO Y REAL...
❤ "OBLIGATORIO BAILAR CON EL CORAZÓN" ❤

Con ustedes, la gente hermosa que hizo esto posible: ( GRACIAS, GRACIAS Y MAS GRACIAS POR TODO LOS QUEREMOS!!! )

Retobados que van al revés en la pista:

Atilio Veron Mi Refugio con
Susanna Pirjo Rapo ( de Hoy Milonga )

Y las Nadias de Hoy Milonga, Nadia Funes & Nadia Spens

"La" Maestra que viene a poner orden en la pista, nuestra tan querida bailarina, directora, coreógrafa de mucho tango y gran corazón...Olga Besioooooo Olga Besio II Olga Besio Olga Besio

Maestros músicos que nos endulzaron los oídos y nos encendieron las patas!!!
Dúo "Salvando las Distancias" Fernando Rezk en bandoneón y Miguel Barci en guitarra

Milongueros bailando con todo el corazón

Adriana Argentina Frossasco
Omar Viola
Martin Chili
Suyai Serpa
Manuel Gonzalez
Majo Marini
German Ballejo
Magdalena Gutierrez
Carla Tango Tango
Maria Oliva
Federico Piperno
Karin Dhadamus
Niv Sardi
Roberto Ubaldo Soto
Daniel Ricardo Adra
Natalia Peña
Tamara Valdivia Mio Tango
Susana Beia
Jorge Nelson Farias L
Noe Andino
Leonardo Salvador Guerra
Leonardo Chinchilla

***Si faltó nombrar a alguien por favor avisennos!!! A veces puede pasar, somos muchos y hay mucho trabajo :)

💜 Gracias nuevamente a todos , a todos!!! Por esta hermosa experiencia, por haberle puesto el corazón a toda la filmación, por las risas, los chistes, por el aguante de siempre!!!! Los abrazamos fuerte fuerte❤

💜 Gracias Doris Bennan , tenías razón "Los Laureles" tiene esa cosa que hace que todo salga espectacular!!!

Producción visual: Colectivo Ladran Caravana un equipo de primera, no solo a nivel profesional sino humano, gracias Luz Balaña, Cristian y Jeremias Ferreri por todo, todo y por haber venido a estrenar con nosotros y a compartir una noche que nunca olvidaremos 💜

Conocélos!! https://hoy-milonga.com/…/Buenos-Aires*…

🔥ESTE ES EL ÚLTIMO DE ESTA SERIE PERO NO ES EL FINAL...RECIÉN ARRANCAMOS!!!! 🔥

💜 POR MUCHAS COSAS MAS, SIEMPRE JUNTOS MILONGUEROS 💜

GRACIAS HASTA PRONTITO...

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Vania's most excellent efficacious quintessential foundational core small space tango rudiments for tango ruminants

ef·fi·ca·cious
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adjectiveformal
(typically of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.



I'm taking a small space workshop with Vania, here in Austin. Or small space sequences. Small space technique fundamentals. A perfect and on-purpose choice of topic leading right up to the Austin Spring Tango Festival, and on the heels of a...uh, how shall I say it?...a milonga with less-than-optimal floorcraft several weeks ago. Apparently some boleos were thrown that made contact. No bueno. Otherwise generally chaotic. However, I wasn't there - assumptions based on what I've heard.

Just to get this out of the way, I think we can all agree that "small space sequences" are key to manifesting a milonga with good floorcraft, and further, manifesting good floorcraft within a community, and finally, manifesting good floorcraft within oneself, in one's own dancing. If you ain't dancin' tango with good floorcraft, you ain't dancin' tango. Bub. Bubba. Tango Bubba. I think I've just coined some new tango terminology!

So, that said, this morning I was going to share the next event - Week 3 - in a Facebook post, and I wanted to say something about how much I like these classes, the subject matter, her teaching style and teaching knowledge. Being the man of few words that I am, what popped into the primordial soup first was "amazing". Then "stupendous". Stupid, weak words. So as I was hunting for my big, thick, dog-eared thesaurus on my bookshelves, other words like "important", "of vital importance", "fundamentals", "core" all popped into my head.

Y'all who know me know I'm not one to gush. Especially about tango teachers or tango teaching or classes and workshops. Truth be told, I haven't taken many classes for the past several years. Mostly "a la carte" stuff at the ASTF - favored topics, wanting to add a thing or two to my "tango roll-o-dex of moves". Baring my soul, I feel like my repertoire is limited. Not that there's not a lot of tango shit, "happy horseshit" as one of my oldest teachers used to say, in there, in my primordial soup, it just doesn't come out. I've forgotten the vast majority of my "learnings" from my first four or five years of pretty profoundly intensive study of tango. Lots of teachers, lots of local classes from my maestra local teacher, lots of festival classes & weekend workshops, lots of privates, and a handful of intensive intensivos, and a shitload of money and time. Almost too much information. But I figgered I would let it percolate and steep and soak into my bones. So much information that I didn't care to or dare to take a class. For a long time. Until now. Until Ms. Vania.

The more I dance, the more stuff bubbles up to the surface. The more I remember "stuff" that I forgot to remember not to forget. "Tango stuff". I'm dancing more now, and practicing at home, but for about five or six years there I was in a dry spell. A Tango Drought. When you're thirsty a little bit of tango can go a long way. I was only dancing a few times a year. For the past almost three years, Sugar G and I are dancing 3-4 times a month, if not more, now.

So I've focused on my few things. The old standbys. My embrace. My walk. My ocho cortado. Some cross-footed happy horseshit. My molinete and some fairly extensive variations. My cross footed anti-clockwise rotating rock step. An occasional 1/2 back ocho. An occasional 1/2 front ocho. My never ever sandwichito. An enganche/leg wrap thingy. Really only one of those that I can think of. No real sacadas, except for a tiny one in this milonguero double clockwise giro that I do. A standard issue volcada. Sometimes a double volcada. Obviously la cruzada, which surprisingly I tend to forget about, or not think about - I guess because it just happens "absent conscious thought". Which is a good thing I suppose. I think I'm pretty good with my musicality. I walk when the music tells me to walk, and I do stuff when the music tells me to do stuff. (I'm being humble and modest.) (In my humility after Sugar G and I finished a vals at practica yesterday I said "well I pretty much nailed the shit out of that one". She laughed. Cuz she knows me. Truly madly deeply.) And pretty good with tying it all together into a cohesive mass. One song at a time, one tanda at a time. (Sidenote: it frustrates the hell out of me that no one else (or rarely) hears it when the music says "WALK, FUCKING WALK. NOW. DUDE.")

So. I have my YouTube playlist "Tango Stuff to Work On" that I've been tucking videos into cubby holes for future reference. Future study/practice/work. I have my G&G videos from their four day intensivo in Atlanta way back when. I'm delving into all that (and more) a little more. A lot more I suppose. I'm missing a milonguero dip. Haven't been able to learn that one, although I haven't really tried. I feel myself wanting to add a thing or two or three. My happy horseshit type stuff. More "fun" stuff? I can't believe I'm even saying that. Sometimes, I get bored with my own lead. I beat myself up that I'm being repetitive, and that surely the followers much feel it, and that they too must be bored. I know I'm wrong about this, at least that's what I tell myself. I can't shake the self-downing stuff though. Maybe it's normal nature of the beast type shit. Or maybe it's just me. Who knows.

So. Festival coming up. Gotta work on smaller more interesting stuff, more variety in small sequences. Maybe I won't get so pissed about all the bad floorcraft if I have more to focus on in my own little space. Bad floorcraft pisses me off. Probably too much. I need to be more tolerant and compassionate. Sometimes to the point that I just leave. The milonga. I suppose I'm known for my disappearing act. Less now with Sugar G. Less disappearing. (Stay tuned for another post on floorcraft, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.)

Not just for the festival, but for everywhere all the time. Small Is Beautiful. I have the book on my bookshelves. Not about tango, but you get my drift. Smaller more interesting stuff and a few happy horseshit items.

That would make me a happy dancer. Not that I'm an unhappy dancer. I don't think.

So. Lo and behold, Vania decides to make this the topic of her current four week workshop. Sweet. The tango stars align.

Back to the gushing part. And the Thesaurus part. Searching for words to adequately describe what I'm thinking and feeling after two of Ms. Vania's most excellent classes. So amazing and stupendous are out. 4th grade words. I look up "fundamental". Noun. essence 5.2 foundation 216.6 important point 676.6

essence 5.2: intrinsically quintessence elixir core heart soul spirit - those all pretty much nail it.

foundation 216.6: base basis groundwork fundamental principle rudiment terra firma - yes to all those, too. Grounded. Grounding. Ground. Earth.

important point (importance) 672.6: essential, fundamental, gist, heart, meat, core, crux

And then this one popped out somewhere - I saw it, but then I couldn't find it again...efficacious. A word I know but rarely/never use.

efficacious (adj): capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.:

intrinsic stands out: 1480-90; < Medieval Latin intrinsecus inward (adj.), Latin (adv.), equivalent to intrin- (int(e)r-, as in interior + -im adv. suffix) + secus beside, derivative of sequī to follow

synonyms: 1. native, innate, natural, true, real. See essential.

Vania's most excellent efficacious quintessential foundational core small space tango rudiments for tango ruminants

Vania's Tango Elixir

Vania's Quintessential Tango Elixir

Okay, now I fear I'm sound like some obsessive compulsive sick fuck type stalker.

Let's just say her classes are "really good", and she's a "really good" tango teacher.

I always love it when my posts ramble around over hill and dale and always come back to the core. The crux.

It's hard to describe how and why her classes are "really good".

Good foundational core crux posture suspension type stuff. I'm falling short here.

Nuances of stuff related to where your thoracic vertebrae stop and where your lumbar vertebrae start and the kinesthesiology of how to properly engage that in the dynamic embrace. Subtleties of where/how/why the leader needs to have his (or her) weight on his forefoot and stand on his leg and originate the pivot in the torso/frame and not with the trailing leg.

Without being all scientific or medical or didactic, but all flowy and natural-like.

Concise and clear.

She's a really good teacher.

World class.

Right here in Austin.

And at the upcoming Tucson Tango Festival.

If you get a chance to study with her, do.

Your tango will be the better for it.

And your tango will thank you.

Your tango partners will thank you.

Avail thyself.

And she also covered nuances and subtleties of cabeceo - as a side-topic.

And she spent a good amount of the class on #goodfloorcraft.

"She's a really good teacher."

File under #floorcraft #deeptangothought #deeptangotechnique #deeptangoteaching

(Stay tuned for another post on floorcraft, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.)

Chaos Theory of Floorcraft :: Part 2

Here is a flowchart/diagram diagrammatical grammatical graphical interface dance notation of every known perpetration and permutation of bad floorcraft, and the evasive/corrective maneuvers to compensate for being on the receiving end of bad floorcraft and also with all good floorcraft techniques and manifestations also illustrated...(this is a joke)

Artist unknown, and I don't know what his actually represents. Probably nothing. Probably just someone doodling.

I thought it was funny. In this context. Hilarious, actually.

I ran across the image whilst farting around and looking at this: Images extracted from the latter half of Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented by Raoul-Auger Feuillet which revolutionised the dance world. Just out of curiosity.

Chaos Theory of Floorcraft Part 1 :: The Coolest Man Dancing Tango

Here's Murat Erdemsel at YoLaTango in Austin back in 2014. We miss our YoLaTango! That was always a great mini-festival! Scottish Rite Theater is a fantastic venue.

This video is actually Part 3 in his series - titled "Murat and Michelle Erdemsel at YolaTango 2014: Improve floor craft on tango dance-floors PART-3" (Scroll down to the bottom for Parts 1 & 2 - Part 2 is from YoLaTango as well...)

There's actually very little "meat" on the subject of floorcraft in this video - but I'm not complaining. Using humor, he pokes a bit of fun at leader (left) hand positions, what I've referred to on this blog as "hand forms". I'm not sure if I ever got around to writing the post about the guy I used to encounter with the "waving palm frond" hand form. Oh well. Bizarre hand forms don't piss me off like they used to. Approaching fifteen years in, I've matured in my tango, and hopefully I'm more Zen/Taoist about it. Although bad floorcraft still pisses me off.

Anyway...so for just over the first six minutes of the video Murat does a skit, although perhaps the better word is shtick, on hand form. Pretty good. Pretty funny. Michelle is his beautiful assistant. Too bad they split up. :(

Beginning at 6:25 in the video, he talks for the last two minutes on "the evolution of the coolest man dancing tango in the milongas", with a few subtle nods to practicing good floorcraft. He starts out with importance of the connection between the couple, their connection to the music, and then the connection of the couple to the dancers around them. It's also common now to hear talk (or read about) of all of the dancers in the milonga ultimately being connected to each other physically (through negative space) and dynamically, vs. energetically. A murmuration of starlings comes to mind, although humans are not nearly as perfect as Mother Nature provides. Not by a longshot.

So he makes a good point in this last part, that the "coolest man dancing tango" is "the man who inspires other men to want to dance behind him". Because he provides a safe space by practicing good floorcraft. The coolest man allows those safe spaces to open up in front of the dancers behind him. A very good point indeed. I never thought about it this way. Kudos to Murat for this.

The video description on YouTube also makes a few good points about floorcraft (aka navigation and all of the various elements that combine into the grand subject of floorcraft). That floorcraft is "the most boring subject in tango", which is probably true, because I don't think many teachers actually emphasize it enough in their classes. In my view, it should be touched on in each and every class, and focused on in beginner classes for the first three to six months of a dancer's path into tango. Ideally.

The second extremely important point: "how to follow the line of the dance or a responsibility that many men claim to fulfill but in reality they do not..."

And the final point: "For the sake of having an ultimate dancing experience for every dancer dancing with peace, respect and happiness while maintaining responsibilities."


Here's the full video description:

Murat Erdemsel speaking specifically about "evolution of the coolest man dancing tango in milongas".
It is one of the most boring subjects to study in tango; how to follow the line of the dance or a responsibility that many men claim to fulfill but in reality they do not.
Murat, and Michelle helping during his impersonations, finding ways to bring it to all men during the actual milonga and making it fun to listen. For the sake of having an ultimate dancing experience for every dancer dancing with peace, respect and happiness while maintaining responsibilities.


For the sake of good floorcraft.

For the sake of planting the seeds of good floorcraft.

How do we, as dancers, teachers, organizers, and communities promote and influence and manifest the practice of good floorcraft? Because it seems to fall by the wayside much too frequently, and we all end up having to contend with the perpetrations and permutations of bad floorcraft.

A final thanks to Murat (and Michelle) for this video, the video series, and for their contributions to and influences on the Austin Tango Community.

And to a big thank you to Elif and Marc - for the bravery to give "good floorcraft" center stage at a (mini) festival - a novel idea to have the visiting teachers do a class/presentation on it right before a milonga. This should happen more.

Afterthought...

It's not lost on me that the guys who think they are the coolest man dancing tango, dancing to impress themselves, dancing to impress their partner, or worse, dancing to impress others in the room, are most frequently the ones who are oblivious to the dancers around them, dancing without respecting them or the spaces around them, dancing too big for the milonga, and are generally oblivious to (good) floorcraft and the thoughtful and earnest practice of it.

None of those guys will ever read this.

Okay, now, really, finally, and for the record, here are the first two videos of Murat's series:

AirMilonga by OpenMilonga. Improve floor craft on tango dance-floors PART-1



More "meat" on floorcraft in this one, again before a milonga at YoLaTango (starting at the one minute mark), again using humor - the "four types of guys" - which we all want to be the Type 4 guy.

Murat and Michelle Erdemsel at YolaTango: Improve floor craft on tango dance-floors PART-2



And now, really finally lastly, as a reward to those of you who read and scrolled all the way down, here are Murat and Michelle dancing at YoLaTango 2014 to Pedro Laurenz' "Yo quiero cantar un tango" with Alberto Podesta singing...impeccable musicality...