Intermediate Milonga Classes
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This class covers the material from one of our workshops on advanced volcadas. We look at linked volcadas, side volcadas, and with leg wraps. We discuss the difference between a shoulder lead and a more flat chested lead in Volcadas.
A Volcada is when the woman is lead completely off of her vertical axis to lean forward into the man with her free leg floating forward. In this class we will look at Forward and Back Volcadas with different resolutions such as Cruzada, Calesita and Boleo.
In this class, we focus on the leaders switching back and forth between parallel and cross system while leading the followers to perform back ochos. This step works well in both vals (tango waltz) and rhythmic tangos.
In this class, the leader switches between parallel and cross system while leading the follower to perform back ochos. This step works very well in vals (tango waltz) and rhythmic tango.
In this class, we focus on linking counterclockwise turns in the rhythm of vals. But these turns could be used just as well in Tango.
In this class, we focus on stringing together clockwise turns (giros) in the rhythm of vals (waltz).