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Close embrace

These notes summarise some close embrace workshops given in Cambridge in Autumn 2004 by Jur & Jonne from Amsterdam.

We began in close embrace:

but finding the middle of the step

pausing to reverse the move slightly, before

continuing to complete the step

We continued in close embrace:

but bouncing back to reverse the step almost as soon as the lead foot touches the floor

We then played with the pace of the "lead" and "collect" parts of a step:

Out quickly followed by a slow collect

We then broke up our patterns of dancing by playing with the eight possible combinations of three steps:

step, step, change weight;

step, change weight, step;

step, change weight, change weight;

change weight, step, step;

change weight, step, change weight;

change weight, change weight, step;

change weight, change weight, change weight;

We then thought a bit about tango sentences in which the beginning and end moves are more significant - the capital letters of the dance.

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