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Giro
The giro is the
manoeuvre (!) in which the follower,
always facing the leader with her upper
body, is led to step around her leader -
progressively taking backward, open/side,
and forward steps before pivotting 180
into another open/side step and pivotting
180 and repeating the backward, open/side
and forward steps and so on.
The move can
include any number of the individual
elements and can begin and end on any
step although there are favoured entry
and exit points and variations on the
timing of the steps.
Classically, the
backward, open, and forward steps are
completed in the same time as the pivot,
open, pivot part; a four-step 360 box
around the leader.
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| If executed well,
with the leader rotating steadily to face
his follower and maintaining his central
axis and the follower taking uniform
length steps, keeping her pivots separate
from her steps, thinking of release,
transfer and collect phases of each step,
and staying close to the leader, there is
enormous potential for the leg play -
barridas, boleos, ganchos and sacadas -
that is the essence of Tango! Tango's roots may extend
back into the very late 19th century but
this key move was not invented until the
1940s when Petroleo and his group in the
Nelson Club revolutionised the steps and
approach to give us most of contemporary
Argentine Tango.
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