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Old 31st-January-2006, 10:07 AM   #126 (permalink)
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Re: Learning Tango

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Originally Posted by Lynn
We were taught the basic 8 on Friday but the teacher preceded the teaching of it by telling us it is rarely actually danced - she was using it as a tool to teach those basic elements you mentioned. She also spent time showing us how a cross is led and encouraged the leads to swap between the basic 8 and eg the basic 6 which started the same but doesn't have the cross so that the followers would have to follow what was being led.

I also recognised it from a class a couple of years ago.

Re the salida - which bit is the salida - I thought it was just the bit at the end of the basic 8? Isn't it Spanish for 'exit'?
There are three parts in all
- the reverse start (retroceso)
- the salida (leader steps fwds, follower back)
- the closing finish (la resolucion)
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