CLARISA ARAGÓN & JONATHAN SAAVEDRA – Tango Essentials 1.0

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CLARISA ARAGÓN & JONATHAN SAAVEDRA – Tango Essentials 1.0

Tango Essentials 1.0
CLARISA ARAGÓN & JONATHAN SAAVEDRA
Tango is not only dance. It’s not only music. It’s a complex, fascinating artful culture, that accompanies you in a transformative journey of inner and outer exploration. One that connects deeply with our subconscious realm. The spine of tango has been built of stories of human experiences, behaviors, expressions, feelings… Tango speaks through the unsaid and reads through the unwritten. Tango creates bridges that pulse in synchronicity. It is a powerful form of participative contemplation, communication, a form of empathic inter-personal and social interaction. Tango is a way of living. A way of continuous self-actualization…

Why this
This is a collection of lessons providing the foundational principles of Argentine tango. Not steps, but almost meta concepts. Contemplate them with absolute presence. Try them, feel them. Do the exercise of translating them into other areas of your life. Designed for absolute beginners, and experienced dancers alike, these lessons cover a range of topics, from posture, embrace, tango walk, to musicality, and connection with your partner. Among other things, you will learn about the importance of musicality in tango, including the different types of music and how to identify and interpret the rhythm. You’ll also learn about the concept of “leading and following” in tango, which is essential for communicating with your partner. Eventually, you’ll step on a playground, where Tango becomes your loving and honest teacher.

13 lessons

01
Tango is an Improvised Conversation without Words
Tango is about nurturing the relationship we have with ourselves, the one we have with another human being; it’s also opening up to building meaningful, and respectful relationships inside a community. Harmonious relationships require the skill of communication. And tango is a conversation without words… A powerful one, based on empathy and improvisation. Welcome to tango!

02
Starting Elements: Change of Weight
The concept of change of weight in tango is similar to that of empathic leadership in any area of our life. An effective leader communicates the direction that a person, or a group will be taking. Then, they hold space for it to be implemented, in order to further follow this same direction, while preparing the communication of the next one to be taken. When practicing this lesson, have in mind the cycle communicate – hold space – follow.

03
Our Posture in Tango
In tango and in life, how are our posture and confidence connected? How well do we communicate through our body? Overdoing can have the reverse effect, so we should aim to find a balance between the technique of the tango posture, and our natural way of being. And this will lead us to expressing our unique personality in dance.

04
Embracing in Tango
For Clarisa & Jonathan, the main pillars of social tango are the Embrace, the Walk and the Musicality. This lesson is dedicate to the Embrace, a powerful communication tool, that you’ll be using in tango in order to feel the state, the position, and the response of your partner. You’ll use it to lead. And then, you’ll use it to follow. That is, to communicate back.

05
The Tango Walk
The tango Walk is a unique style of walking that requires dancers to move with intention, grace, and precision. However, it is built upon the principles of our organic movements. The tango Walk takes and amplifies them, adding a level of artistry and technique that transforms our organic walk into a highly stylized and elegant form of dance. And by remaining rooted in our natural motions, the tango walk maintains a sense of authenticity.

06
Unifying the Walk and the Embrace
There are technical tips that will help you stay confortably in your own axis, while you’re taking care of the shared axis of your tango couple. Seamlessly unifying the Walk and the Embrace is key to achieving a comfortable, harmonious and fluid dance that will give us the freedom to interpret the music in our own, unique way. Sit in this space, experience it…

07
Musicality in Tango
Tango is not about moving all the time, and making constantly steps. It’s a space. A mental, energetic space, contained by, and irrigated with music, where we can feel, think, experiment, make a lot of mistakes… It’s where we ultimately, discover and play with a universe of possibilities. Next time you dance, listen… Does the music want to share anything with you?

08
Musicality in Tango 
Sometimes you go very deep inside, and everything slows down to the extent of feeling that you are stopping. Sometimes, it’s all about energetic celebration, and moving lively. So similar to the dynamics of life itself, this is the expanded magic of tango… And of playing with its music!

09
Foundational Tango Elements: Pivot & Back Ocho
Question everything. What if we change this? What if we challenge that? Tango is an ever evolving form of expression. It is old and it is new, because of its ability to transform, and resurrect over and over again. How? By understanding its fundamentals to the core. By making sure we constantly water its roots.

10
Pivot & Front Ocho. Improvising, Combining Different Elements
Tango was not created by one person alone. It is made collectively and continuously, through generations, by intersecting elements, and letting interactions happen. In art in general, and in tango in particular, you have a container made up by rules and principles, inside which freedom lives. The freedom to be who you are, unjudged and uniquely self-expressed.

11
Diving Deeper into the Tango Walking: Parallel & Cross Systems
Tango is also visual and abstract. It is seen in the body, but it first originates in our mind. You can deconstruct tango in simple geometry components, or imagine it out of quotidian objects. And all these alchemized, create an alluring, somehow parallel world, that has been injected with a charm, sure to leave a lasting impression on anyone who experiences it.

12
Foundational Tango Elements: the Cross
Awareness is a state we get to master with tango. Precision is a quality we develop while practicing it. At first, we pass every detail through logic. Then, we let it transition to a different kind of intelligence – belonging to our cell’s memory while merging it with our creative, sentient center that we call heart. Our dance is the result of this process. And it contains the milestones of this rich arriving.

13
Resolutions: How to Finish the Movements in Tango
We consciously direct our movement, up to the point where we give it up. This is the moment when dance breaks free. It takes over our body, and uses it as a means of creating. It’s when exaltation of our dance happens. And then, almost like in a competition, we, the dancers regain the control, and we stop, we resolve the figure. But this, only to sooner or later, start this creative cycle again.

Tango Essentials 1.0
Tango is not only dance. It’s not only music. It’s a complex, fascinating artful culture, that accompanies you in a transformative journey of inner and outer exploration. One that connects deeply with our subconscious realm. The spine of tango has been built of stories of human experiences, behaviors, expressions, feelings… Tango speaks through the unsaid and reads through the unwritten. Tango creates bridges that pulse in synchronicity. It is a powerful form of participative contemplation, communication, a form of empathic inter-personal and social interaction. Tango is a way of living. A way of continuous self-actualization…

About us
We are a team of passionate people – dancers, entrepreneurs, creatives, cinematographers, photographers – who believe that in order to live life more fully, one needs to focus on that what makes our heart sing. With Dancershape, we focus on creating online lessons for professional and aspiring dancers, of all walks and ages. By fusing multiple methods and disciplines we bring to you a holistic approach to movement, well-being, and self-expression through dance.

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