Saturday we have due to popular demand another lesson on the embrace and how to keep it firm but flexible depending on what movement you are dancing and the environment you are dancing it in.

After last week’s successful lesson on posture and basic tango embrace. We made real progress in improving the connection and our listening and leading skills. This week we are building on this and we are looking at how to apply the basic tango embrace and how to keep it firm but flexible in various tango movements and in a situation with a lot of space and little space.

Class on improving your embrace

This week’s class is on how we can refine our embrace. We will improve it by thinking about and exploring answers to the following questions: How can we transmit our intentions clearly through our embrace? This is a problem about real communication. We are not trying to force or make our partner do anything. This is an almost equal non-verbal conversation or physical transaction. Can the leader invite or propose a movement, a size of movement, a speed of movement, or a rhythm of movement ?

And can the follower respond accordingly? Or might the follower respond in a slightly different way? Might the follower change movement, direction, speed, or musicality? When is that possible, practical, or just bad? Obviously, as we have said many times, we must listen to and feel the music  and become part of it. We must listen to and feel and know exactly where we are individually and as a tango couple, in time and space, and in relation to others. We are savouring each other, in the musical soup that envelops us. So, we are as aware as we can possibly be of all the components of this enterprise; including ourselves, our partner, music and surroundings. It is a total involvement, leaving all other concerns, tax returns, mothers in law, or worries out of the picture.

To communicate clearly we must be clear in ourself who or what we are, and what we want to say. We must say it clearly and unambiguously to the person we are trying to communicate with. And we must see and know that the message has been received, understood, and appropriately responded to.

Can we be as clear in our Tango ?

If we can do this, then we should be able to do it in Tango, Tango Vals, and Milonga. Well then, let’s try !

Private tuition available 

There are slots of an hour before or after this Saturday event for private tuition suitable for couples. If you are interested in booking a private class please ring Tony Lane on 02075383852.