Tango Giros. Giro for both partners, Giro for her, Giro with Sacada

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Giro is one more way of walking for the follower. She goes front, open, back, open. Like in everything in Tango, there is no set routine. She just follows the leader's shoulders and his energy.

Two important elements are the constant brushing of her feet between each step and the pivoting so that she can step with ease.

Al Compàs Del Corazòn - Carlos Di Sarli

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Dancers: Alain and Cheryl. Dance Teachers from Dance Conmigo

Back Ocho on "8". Lesson 12

We did basic until "7"
Then the leader guided his partner to step back on a back ocho as he steps back himself. The follow does 3 or 5 back ochos and then they get out on 3-4-5.

On the second version, the leader guided just the first back ocho and then he got out with a cross system on 3-4-5....

Rodríguez Peña (Carlos Di Sarli)

This is one of my favorite songs and a "Must have" for all tango lover.

The Dancers are: Alain Guillot and Jade Pollack

Cross System of Tango. Lesson 11

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Cross system occurs when the leader and follower are both stepping simultaneous with their right foot or their left foot.

In its more fundamental form, the leader does a syncopation on "2" to change his weight from one foot to the other. At a given moment, the dancers go back to their regular "Parallel System"

In this video, the leader does a syncopation on "2" , they both do 3 and 4 and then, either the leader make a pause to allow time for the follower to go back into parallel system, or the follower does a syncopation on "5" to catch up with the leader.

Changing directions. Lesson 10

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Very often a leader needs to change direction (mostly to avoid bumping into other couples)

A simple way to change direction is by doing a bounce on "5" and then doing a pivot on 2 and 3. The change of direction could be as much as 180 degrees or as little as one eight of a turn.

Also, the bounce could be initiated from the simple walk. The leader could create the bounce at any time that he is stepping forward with the left foot.

Try this exercise several time and let me know how it woks out for you.

Fumando Espero (Argentino Ledesma)