Maybe the best 80 bucks a person could ever spend on their tango learning…
Tango Progressive Program A
by Gustavo &Giselle
ONLINE
Mondays February/March 2023
Order Form for Online attendance
Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne will be ONLINE teaching their Tango Method, througt the Tango Progressive Program. This series of first 8 classes correspond to the Program:A
The Gustavo & Giselle Tango Progressive Program, consist of a series of 128 tango dance classes (Programs A to H) designed specifically to learn to dance Argentine Tango. All steps and sequences are specifically created by G&G throughout their 30 years of developing their methodology.
This is useful for beginners and/or everybody who wants to learn in a progressive order and understand the structure of the dance.
Classes will be taugth in English.
After filling the form we will contact you with the ID number to enter the meeting by Zoom. There will be a different meetimng every class
And with tango, due to the complexities and nuances of the quality and character of motion through time and space and to the music - weight shifts, where your weight is on your foot aka where your center of gravity is in relation to your foot, where you want her weight to be, where you want your foot/feet to be, where you want her foot/feet to be, etc. Sometimes if you lead her to shift her weight just a little too far, the opportunity to do what you were planning to do is lost. In a few-to-several-hundred femtoseconds of little brain farts bubbling up in the primordial soup.
I know many of us leaders, perhaps most of us, use YouTube to glean/harvest/study new vocabulary and "stuff" for our tango roll-o-dex of moves. Or maybe movements is a better word. Ah. I see it's actually "Rolodex".
Using the video settings to slow down the speed to .50 or .25 is helpful, but scrubbing the video back and forth is hellatiously frustrating, especially on a mobile device.
After years of being hellatiously frustrated by the inability to have really slow simple control to break things down step by step, I had a eureka moment a couple of weeks ago.
Now, after being hellatiously frustrated reading all my drivel, here is the actual tip.
Slow the video down to .25 speed on your computer or iPad, then video that with your phone. Then using your phone, it's much easier to scrub back and forth step by step to figure shit out.
With the Austin Spring Tango Festival coming up, and being slightly week in my small space Rolodex of movements, we've been taking classes with Vania on the subject, and practicing a few times a week. We've been working on incorporating a cross-footed ocho cortado to the cross (aren't they all?) with a front cross step back to the close side on her part simultaneously with a mini-milonguero dip on my part. Mini-dip. Not mini-milonguero, although I'm sure they exist.
Sadly, the milonguero dip has been missing from my tango Rolodex for all these years.
My thick skull couldn't absorb it until I broke it down step by step and body position by body position. I'm slow that way. And I guess I've been slow on the uptake of figuring out that I could video the slowed-down video. Oh well.
Anyway.
That is all.
Oh. Here's the video. From timestamp 0:40, then he repeats it at 0:48. Michelle and Joachim. I like their "stuff".
Taken and condensed from Daniel Boardman's and Michelle McRuiz' "From Bench Warming To Dancing In Thirty Seconds or Less: How to use cabeceo effectively"
