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there were six months when I practised alone and didn't go to the one local milonga... I just didn't like the scene for some reason which I now forget why...now the same town I live in, has three weekly milongas, lots more dancers and the dancers have really gotten good over the past couple of...

this guy..a paragon of the social dance..agrees with..

I'm not able to understand all of these posts very well but I'd like add that my intention from the beginning of my dancing was to dance apillado = supposedly milonguero style...and I've found that once I got to around the three years mark, I was no longer leaning forward at all on my partner...

I wish that when I started I could have distinguished the difference between the social dance movements and performance movements... it took two years before I realized that the social dance only needed a few figures; walking, back ochos, walk to the cross, giros... to be a complete and...

thanks for all the thoughtfull input... my walking backwards doesn't seem to be a problem at all now when I am dancing with a woman..so, I'm grateful for that and enjoying it a lot !... my 'problem' only occurred when practicing alone as I want to practice the difficult parts of the dance... I...

Wow, this is an amazing coincidence... I've been dancing five years and always with close embrace. I believe it has happened before but just yesterday for the first time, with my eyes open, I realized that I was watching a sort of TV monitor of just our feet on the floor...sort of illuminated...

This is dangerous advice for those who are aging and who isn't? As the heel thins with age we are vulnerable to a condition called Plantar Fascitus (sp?). This condition is quite prone to occur in dancers also and very painfull. Only a good arch and heel will help protect a man from this...

I would never ask a woman who leads to dance..Because, always at some point, she will lead a step, even if it's only for an instant while coming out of an ocho cortado .. the smallest such intrusion will completely ruin the illusion of the dance for me... as would a woman who anticipates a step.

I wish I had never taken another class past my first several with a close embrace teacher....

Im one of these guys...it isn't patronising it's just the dance as some others see it... the male leads and the woman follows... I've had one woman yell out on the dance 'I will not submit' when she couldn't begin to dictate the dance... I guess male and female roles are now 'out' in correct...

thanks.. I will double check the sides and the hip/shoulder

I dance a simple traditional close-embrace..with emphasis on dancing to the music and the embrace...I was lucky to start with a simple traditional style teacher and although I took a slew of classes from the other styles because I thought that maybe they had something special, I always returned...

I like to walk backwards whenever I can in the social dance...I usually only go 3 to 5 steps when I have room and the added stability of the embrace seems to help... however, when I practise walking backwards alone at home, it's a different story... very hard to maintain balance and not wobble...

These are just some of my musings about the candencia in the AT dance....I'm offering that; by candencia it is generally agreed that the person is dancing with the whole body..not just with the legs... and of course within the good fundamentals of the dance but not rigidly so... It has been my...

wow, that's not going to be an easy video to make but please do try, and good luck at it, too !~

yes, it takes guts to try and teach a foreign culture to others when it is foreign even to the teachers....they (Homer and Cristina) may finally be drawn into actually experiencing the corrida delas milongas in BsAs before going much further with this teaching. That would be very positive for...

I like the answer about the pivots... I know that when I am starting to practice the social dance with someone, I usually have to ask her to tone down the back ochos, a sure sign that she was taking classes from (so-called) salon and nuevo teachers which seem to be the only ones available for...

What to do when groups of men and women are sitting together at tables that are set in different directions and scattered around not in a single line... I run into this a lot in Mexico and here it is in BA at Sunderland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=zNJrYgniLyw&NR=1 It looks...

later:= she can simply turn her gaze to the man in question.... no?

a reply from the dancers to a comment that I left on their YT video: bytmilonguero has replied to your comment on Tango Milonguero Japón HUEVOS info2013-Baku y Teresa To reply back click here. To see all comments on this video click here. Thank you for your comment,we lived in BsAs...