Idea Tango: how to establish and maintain a trusty tango connection 

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Hello there! Thank you very much for your questions. I will try to reply as much as I can in a written comment. 🙂 From my point of view, the most important things to have in mind are: The frame: for both leaders and followers the frame should be present yet relaxed. The strength for the frame to be present comes from your shoulder blade muscles, not from the shoulders or arms or hands. Once you have achieved a correct posture of the frame (symmetrical from elbow to elbow, with shoulders down, with elbows towards the ground but detached from your upper body) you want to keep it in place all the time by using the shoulder blade muscles. Tip: if the elbows (especially the right for the follower and the left for the leader) are not towards the ground you will be using the shoulder/arm muscles rather than the back muscles. The pushing of the floor: once you have a correct frame you move throughout the space by pushing the floor with your lower body. To lead a step, in whichever direction, you do not use the frame but the pushing of the floor resulting in a movement of your axis. To lead a pivot, you keep the frame in place and you use the dissociation and yet the pushing of the floor. A round comfortable embrace: sometimes tango embraces are uncomfortable because they are flat. You want to keep always a round embrace like if you are hugging a big inflatable beach ball (yet relaxing the shoulders). Thus, your elbows should always be in front of your shoulders. Finally, your embrace is what the other person feels, thus put some warmth in it! Think of it like a nice warm welcome hand shake. I hope this is of help. If you would like to know more or discuss further you can DM me and we can organize an online class. 😊

Hola Hover, muchas gracias por tu amable comentario! 🥰 Estoy muy feliz que mis videos sean utiles a instructor de tango también ❤️ Abrazos desde Europa! 🤗

Hi Heidi, thank you very much for your comment! 🥰 I would need to see you and the specific situation in order to give you an effective advice. However, in general, I can say that the tango embrace must be comfortable for both partners. Liking something and being comfortable are 2 different things. Thus, I appreciate that the leaders might like a specific position of your left arm, but comfort for you and your partner is the most important thing. Concerning the height of the elbows, in closed embrace it is not an issue if the elbows are at a different level. This because A) the connection is realised at the level of the solar plexus and through the entire right arm of the leader around the upper body of the follower (till the back) B) in a fully closed embrace pivots are very small (max 45 deg), thus balance is not a big problem. As soon as the embrace opens, even a little bit, then big pivots might be led and thus the follower needs a good balance, axis and stability. The elbows at the same eight helps quite a lot to properly and symmetrically activate the back to achieve balance and stability. Your left arm should always be mobile and always have the possibility to slide along the right arm/shoulder/back of the leader, so that you can adjust the position and eight of your left arm according to the embrace and the moves led. I hope it helps. 😊 If you need more specific advices we can have an online meeting to discuss in detail your specific situation.

@@silviamezzasoma Hi Silvia, thank you very much for taking the time to write a detailed reply. It’s only when I’m in a closed embrace with a tall leader that my left elbow is at higher level than my right one. Once the leader opens up, I do slide my left hand/arm to make adjustments. Thank you for the clarification. It helped. I’ve been dancing for 14 years and still like to go back to basics. You’re a very effective communicator. I just found your channel and enjoyed watching your videos and gained new found perspectives through your videos. Hope you will continue making them in the future, especially the ones for followers techniques. 😊

@@HeidiDance2 thank you very much Heidi! I am very happy that my tutorials are useful even to an experienced dancer like you, it’s very rewarding 🥰 I’ll try to keep up with making some more ones 💪🏻🤗

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I can imagine that this can cause frustration and can be upsetting…🫤 but if you have a medical condition you can’t do much about it. I would rather focus on the fact that also the open embrace is a super nice embrace that allows lots of communication, feelings and nice moves / dynamics (most of which are prevented in a closed embrace). Also the hands that are in contact (the left for the leader, the right for the follower) form a little embrace themselves. So, actually, even through the open embrace you can communicate so much! As long as the embrace is comfortable and connecting it doesn’t matter if it is open or closed 😊

@@silviamezzasoma Thank you so much. You have no ideia how your words means to me. Thank you.