In this lesson, you’ll be introduced to a system, combining Giro and Sacadas, created by Fabian’s teacher, the old milonguero Mingo Pugliese. Being an accountant, he used geometry and numbers to facilitate tango understanding and teaching. If you enjoy strategy games, or using logic to make sense of things, this is your kind of delight! If not, we challenge you to try anyway…

Time to put the entire system created by Mingo Pugliese together. Even if he called it “Giro de 8 con Sacadas”, there are only 6 Sacadas in it, you’ll see why. And you’ll later see how you’ll use it to improvise in your dance. It feels a bit like building something from scratch, using something old, isn’t it?

Is the understanding of a figure ever finished or complete? Or we should strive to see it through other rhythms, colors, moods? Tango’s genesis, continuation and evolution are collaborative processes. Giros de Velocidad are Giros, but they have their specificities…

Calecita is a circular element in the Giro family that can look and feel like a graceful pause inserted into your dance. It can be simple or adorned. And it also contains a lot of technical elements, that you’ll be using in other figures and scenarios, too. So mastering it, will be fun and useful!

To dance tango, we need to understand not only how to move, but also how to stay still, and this can be even more challenging. Mastering the art of staying still is an important part of learning how to perform the Aguja and the Planeo charmingly, and with ease.

We’ll only say that for us, the old style Voleo is like a good, aged wine - subtle, noble and sophisticated. Let’s continue with the Forward Antique Voleo. And remember, Voleos are not performed only by followers, initially they might have actually been an attribute of the leaders.

A lesson in which you’ll study and practice the changes of direction into the Giro. Something very useful to not get dizzy, on one hand, but also to create texture and variety when performing a set of Giros one after another. Because more than two Giros into one direction might be too much…

We’ll continue with a topic started in the 2nd collection. The 8 Points Technique created by Josefina and Fabian is fascinating, as it will make you gain a deeper awareness of your position in space, and your position relative to your partner. In this lesson, you’ll see how it’s applied to tango figures. Enjoy the challenge!

Imagine not having capital letters and full stops in our sentences and in the texts we write. We would end up with something lacking meaning. Dancing is telling stories, too, and so the way we start a figure represents our capital letters…