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purchase, so check your dedication levels before you buy. Okay, they are not Manolos (those would snap with these moves), but they are heels, albeit small square ones.
You must never lift your feet. You have to slide them across the floor as if they are attached with elastic to your partner’s, and you are drawing shapes on the floor, as if skating. Keep knees soft and slightly bent, unless you reach the ‘cross’ position, which is left leg crossed behind right at the end of a move. Try not to bob up and down, keep shoulders level.
When your partner grabs you it doesn’t matter if he is pretty, rich, poor, fat or thin, all that matters is that you dance. The better the dancer, invariably the better-looking he becomes.
So enough with the romance, you need to master the practicalities.
Step and pause and seductively mirror your partner’s moves, and spin across the dance floor.
Drop your partner a deep curtsy. Admittedly this might throw him, if you are in a bar or the queue at ASDA, but, if you assume life is like the movies, he will be making a slow, stiff yet refined bow to you and will ask ‘Shall we dance?’
Ballroom Tango is very different to Argentinian Tango. One is sherry, the other is red wine swigged from a bottle. It all depends on your preference. But learn one and it can easily be applied to the other; it all depends on your taste in men.
‘Must you dance every dance with the same fortunate man? You have danced with him since the music began. Won’t you change partners and dance with me?’ Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers in Carefree , ‘Change Partners’, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin
The basic steps of Ballroom Tango
Gentleman
1 Slide left foot forward – slow.
2 Slide the right foot forward – slow.
3 Glide left foot forward, so it is in front of the right foot – quick.
4 Move right foot to the side, and slightly forward – quick.
5 Draw left foot to close, next to the right foot – slow.
Lady
1 Stretch right foot backward – slow.
2 Glide left foot back to join – slow.
3 Slip right foot backward, behind the left foot – quick.
4 Then the left foot to the side, and slightly backward – quick.
5 Slide right foot close to the left foot – slow.
To these basic steps you now add the rhythm.
Simplified this is: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, but for this you need more than imagination – you need music.
Clap: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. Now substitute as follows: tea, tea, cof-fee, tea. (Coffee being the two quick steps and tea the slow. This will give you an idea of the rhythm.)
Let the steps and turns transport you far from the problem. Surely by the end of the dance, when you drop a curtsy, and they take your hand to kiss it, they will have totally forgotten what you were quarrelling over.
It could be worth trying out on traffic wardens.
If, however, you want to try the real, authentic thing, you need to learn the original Argentinian Tango. Be warned. This is how to tango your way INTO trouble.
For lessons and information, the teacher to try is Tango Federico who has classes all over the UK. For further information go to www.tango-federico.co.uk
Or you could get the popcorn and let Al Pacino teach you in THAT scene from Scent of a Woman .
True dance aficionados need look no further than Fred Astaire.
How to serenade someone special
Serenading someone you love is something everyone should do at least once. As Orsino said in Twelfth Night : ‘If music be the food of love, – play on.’ Shakespeare, no less.
Making yourself horribly vulnerable and risking humiliation is one of the most dangerous yet potentially rewarding things you can do. Really. As such, it is usually reserved for fools in love.
Note: only serenade someone if you are really in love with them as this is one stage shy of a proposal. (Just hope to goodness that they serenade you or propose first.)
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You must never lift your feet. You have to slide them across the floor as if they are attached with elastic to your partner’s, and you are drawing shapes on the floor, as if skating. Keep knees soft and slightly bent, unless you reach the ‘cross’ position, which is left leg crossed behind right at the end of a move. Try not to bob up and down, keep shoulders level.
When your partner grabs you it doesn’t matter if he is pretty, rich, poor, fat or thin, all that matters is that you dance. The better the dancer, invariably the better-looking he becomes.
So enough with the romance, you need to master the practicalities.
Step and pause and seductively mirror your partner’s moves, and spin across the dance floor.
Drop your partner a deep curtsy. Admittedly this might throw him, if you are in a bar or the queue at ASDA, but, if you assume life is like the movies, he will be making a slow, stiff yet refined bow to you and will ask ‘Shall we dance?’
Ballroom Tango is very different to Argentinian Tango. One is sherry, the other is red wine swigged from a bottle. It all depends on your preference. But learn one and it can easily be applied to the other; it all depends on your taste in men.
‘Must you dance every dance with the same fortunate man? You have danced with him since the music began. Won’t you change partners and dance with me?’ Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers in Carefree , ‘Change Partners’, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin
The basic steps of Ballroom Tango
Gentleman
1 Slide left foot forward – slow.
2 Slide the right foot forward – slow.
3 Glide left foot forward, so it is in front of the right foot – quick.
4 Move right foot to the side, and slightly forward – quick.
5 Draw left foot to close, next to the right foot – slow.
Lady
1 Stretch right foot backward – slow.
2 Glide left foot back to join – slow.
3 Slip right foot backward, behind the left foot – quick.
4 Then the left foot to the side, and slightly backward – quick.
5 Slide right foot close to the left foot – slow.
To these basic steps you now add the rhythm.
Simplified this is: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, but for this you need more than imagination – you need music.
Clap: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. Now substitute as follows: tea, tea, cof-fee, tea. (Coffee being the two quick steps and tea the slow. This will give you an idea of the rhythm.)
Let the steps and turns transport you far from the problem. Surely by the end of the dance, when you drop a curtsy, and they take your hand to kiss it, they will have totally forgotten what you were quarrelling over.
It could be worth trying out on traffic wardens.
If, however, you want to try the real, authentic thing, you need to learn the original Argentinian Tango. Be warned. This is how to tango your way INTO trouble.
For lessons and information, the teacher to try is Tango Federico who has classes all over the UK. For further information go to www.tango-federico.co.uk
Or you could get the popcorn and let Al Pacino teach you in THAT scene from Scent of a Woman .
True dance aficionados need look no further than Fred Astaire.
How to serenade someone special
Serenading someone you love is something everyone should do at least once. As Orsino said in Twelfth Night : ‘If music be the food of love, – play on.’ Shakespeare, no less.
Making yourself horribly vulnerable and risking humiliation is one of the most dangerous yet potentially rewarding things you can do. Really. As such, it is usually reserved for fools in love.
Note: only serenade someone if you are really in love with them as this is one stage shy of a proposal. (Just hope to goodness that they serenade you or propose first.)
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