Argentine tango : The core hurdles

Most partner dances : swing, waltz, polka, square dancing, two step, and the vast majority, mostly focus on moves, body position, and patterns. Once learned, then partnership with someone "at your level" can be achieved.

Tango, in contrast, mostly focuses on awareness and "pairing thinking", Collaboration, and cooperative innovation and not on patterns. It's Not that other dances don't use these concepts, but rather Argentine tango is at its core an exploration of partnership.

These core concepts are the major brain hurdles in Argentine tango.

1) The Offer then Acceptance, (Acceptance is the offer).

• Offer--> accept--> offer --> answer.
• Lead: it's what you heard her say she heard.
• Follower: it's acting on what you said you heard.
• Nothing answered is an OK answer.
• Dual-Work to remove confusion.
• The parter is your mind.
• Confusion begets confusion.
• Remove PIO

2) The disconnected offer.

• Discovering what an offer is.
• Discovering who is the driver.
• Discovering where is the engine.

3) The torsion and disassociation.

• The dependence of body layers.
• The independence of body layers.
• The partnered relations of T and D

4) The roles and movements of circles. radius, turns, movements and layers.

• A vacuum must be filled. Gaps.
• 2 verticle layers
• 4 partnered
• Radius and arch movement
• 2 types circular direction.
• Put it together "It's not linear it's circular. "

5) The off - axis.

• The Colgata A axis
• The Volcada axis
• The Up axis.