Milonga Lisa
JOSEFINA BERMUDEZ & FABIAN PERALTA
This is not the milonga we are largely accustomed to. It’s the kind of milonga where you’re not only a wizard of rhythm, but also a storyteller, the tango figures being the ones that count for metaphors in your dance story.
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Learning, practicing and dancing any style of milonga brings a lot of delight! But this one has a particular openness and vastness to it. You feel like there’s so much volume in this style of milonga that you simply have the space to play with it, inside it… You can create almost with no limitations. And the more study and practice you put into it, the closer you are to your very own milonga lisa masterpiece.
Milonga Lisa Basic Step12.41 min
We see the Milonga Lisa style as a tool we can use to expand our creative comfort zone when dancing the more rapid rhythm specific to milongas. It’s the oldest style of milonga, and just like tango, Milonga Lisa has a basic step, which will serve as the foundation on which you’ll create further movements.
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Entrance into the Giro for Milonga Lisa10.59 min
In Milonga Lisa, you have the possibility to do figures like you do in tango. They will give a special color to your dance, and will most probably make you stand out on the dance floor. Why? Because you won’t be using only the rhythm as a means of expression. So, let’s learn first, how to connect the basic step of milonga with a figure - the Giro.
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Basic Ocho in Milonga Lisa9.37 min
This lesson is dedicated to the Ocho element. And we’ll just say that the Ocho in Milonga Lisa slightly differs from the one we do in tango. However, you’ll discover that it’s quite similar to another tango figure that you have most probably learned already.
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Variation of Ocho in Milonga Lisa8.22 min
This is a variation of the Ocho element, with a special mood to it that transforms the Ocho in a figure just perfect for milonga. It’s playful, it’s fun, and it’s even challenging!
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Acompañamiento con Traspié11.33 min
We’ll continue to add up to the Ocho element. And, in this lesson you’ll learn how the partners can lead a metaphorical musical conversation. The follower’s Ocho will represent the base, and the leader will accompany this Ocho with a double bit.
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Atras - Adelante. Fabian's Favorite Step8.05 min
Many of the sequences that we learn are circular, and they make us stay in the same place. But in social tango, in order to have a good, fluid dance floor, we need to keep moving. It means that it’s really necessary to also learn figures that make us move in the space. And Atras - Adelante is one of them.
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Sentadita con Llevadita10.41 min
When we have a predetermined idea about how a certain thing needs to be, it makes us miss a big part of its creative potential. When we think that dancing milonga needs to be about stepping on every bit of the music, we loose a whole world of movements that we can actually come up with. Here’s a figure you wouldn’t normally see used in milonga.
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Giro con Soltada7.53 min
Take exquisite tango figures and insert them into your Milonga Lisa. Giro, Sacadas, letting go of the embrace… play with all these, to get a different story. We mean it. Approaching milonga in this way will offer you a unique and playful dancing experience.
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Another Figure with Soltada9.36 min
In this lesson, you’ll learn another beautiful figure from the group of Soltaditas, that you can use in your Milonga Lisa. You’ll continue the sequence with Amague, and of course will end it with a resolution.
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Entrances to the Giro in Milonga Lisa11.51 min
As you probably know already, Josefina and Fabian care about details. For them, it’s not just about performing a figure, it’s also about honoring it. And in order to do so, you need to beautifully get into it, and out of it. It’s like creating beautiful bridges between different sequences. This lesson is about how you enter into the Giro in Milonga Lisa.
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Figure with Giro de Tres or Half Giro8.12 min
This lesson is dedicated to another fundamental element of the Milonga Lisa, which is the Giro de Tres or the Half Giro. In Milonga Lisa, the follower is usually stepping on the bit, being in this way the main base. But there are cases when the follower will be led to do the double bit, and this is one of those cases.
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Figure with Borrachito for Milonga Lisa8.28 min
In tango, too, creative ideas can come out of the day to day environment. It’s definitely the case with the amusing figure that you will practice in this lesson. It might be a bit challenging at first, but once you master it, you’ll definitely put a big smile on your partner’s face.
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The Jump. A Milonga Lisa Step from Pepito Avellaneda7.55 min
Can you imagine yourself performing a figure with a jump on milonga? On Milonga Lisa you can, and we challenge you to try! This figure is perfect for shows, but also for those milonga endings, when there are very few couples on the dance floor, and you are sure you have plenty of space around.
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Cruzes con Empujadita9.16 min
In order to be able to lead and follow this figure, you will need a different posture than the one we are used to adopt when dancing milonga. It’s the distinctive posture introduced long ago by a well-respected old milonguro that will give you the possibility to lead with the leg, rather than with the chest.
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Americana with Double Bit7.37 min
We’ll finish this collection with a superb, wavy sequence that includes Americanas with double bit, and Double Salidas. Instead of conclusion, we’ll just say that we love Milonga Lisa because it offers you the possibility of expanding your creative confort zone when dancing faster rhythms. Enjoy and share this journey!
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Milonga Lisa
This is not the milonga we are largely accustomed to. It’s the kind of milonga where you’re not only a wizard of rhythm, but also a storyteller, the tango figures being the ones that count for metaphors in your dance story.
This is a Gift Collection, where the iconic social tango dancers & maestros, Josefina Bermudez & Fabian Peralta share knowledge that matters, regarding the social aspect of tango, as well as its didactic side.
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It contains several universes. Tango is social culture, anthropology, movement, music, connection and communication, feeling, thinking, relating with your inner self, with the other, and with the others. Tango is a strongly rooted, ever evolving art, dance and way of living. It’s a never-ending journey…
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The technique should be happening in the background. And there’s just one technique for both roles in tango. Also, the technique should have a well formed position inside the ecosystem of our dance, in order to not distract us from the important moments with each other and with the rest of the persons on the dance floor.
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Every one of these blocks has its own story. Sometimes, a certain blend of them is so ingrained in the dance practice that deconstructing it, is not even a matter. What if it was? What if deconstructing tango’s building blocks gave us material for a new, unique construction, that we made?
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A journey into the history of tango, an archive of tango figures, fascinating to browse and try, created by old milongueros. These are the artists, maestros and dancers who helped foster the tango we know today. It’s a collection that will bring understanding of how, many of these figures have been born, and maybe an inspiration on how new ones might emerge…
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