Robert Hauk Tango

Solo Practice, Forward Side Back Steps

Posted on June 3, 2020 by TangoDJ

This video describes a movement that is very important for followers. Leaders use this movement as well in transitions from forward walking to backward walking sometimes, but followers use it all the time in turns. This is a bit harder exercise so make sure you are still able to move in the relaxed way these videos have emphasized. The hardest…

Solo Practice, Walking in Circles

Posted on May 21, 2020 by TangoDJ

In this video we return to forward walking, this time the focus is on walking in small circles. This is a very good exercise for both leaders and followers, both move in this way in the dance. As in all of the exercises try to do this as slowly as you can. That will teach you much more about the…

Solo Practice, Slow Backward Walking

Posted on May 12, 2020 by TangoDJ

With this exercise we return to backward walking, but this time we are trying to refine what we did in exercise 3. In exercise 3 we focused mostly on the feeling of arriving with all our weight over the weight bearing foot. We were looking for the feeling of relaxing onto that foot so we didn’t worry much about the…

Solo Practice, Slow Forward Walking

Posted on May 5, 2020 by TangoDJ

In this exercise we return to an idea we started in video 2. In this case we are going to focus on slow forward walking. As you work with these videos it is a good idea to go back periodically and review the first two exercises. In this video we are going to work on something much closer to our…

Solo Practice, Back Steps

Posted on April 14, 2020 by TangoDJ

The exercise described in this video is a little more complicated, it looks at taking steps backward. I thought this might be a good exercise to do next because walking backward is harder to do than walking forward. Followers walk backward when learning tango and this can make learning to follow harder at first. Since we don’t walk backward down…

Solo Practice

Posted on April 5, 2020 by TangoDJ

In these unusual times you might be wondering what you can do to practice tango, especially if you don’t have a partner to dance with right now. Solo practice can be useful for tango, however there are some cautions. It is very easy when you practice alone to develop body habits that are not good for dancing with a partner. …

DJing with Vinyl

Posted on July 4, 2017 by TangoDJ

I have been a tango DJ since 1998, so I have had experience with many different methods of DJing. In the beginning I had my tango CD collection, which was relatively small. I would carry most of my collection to the milonga, and I would sit right there and play the songs. It required a lot of management and I…

DJing with CDs

Posted on July 4, 2017 by TangoDJ

This is where I started. I had a relatively small collection of tango CDs and I carried them in a box to the milonga. I would be choosing songs sometimes one at a time using the CD player controls to move around the CD. This required knowing the names of the songs and what they sounded like. Some CDs had…

On the Importance of Good Navigation

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Robert Hauk

A long time ago the Monday milonga started at the Viscount Ballroom. Later the business changed hands and became the Bossa Nova. The Monday milonga moved from the large ballroom to the small upstairs bar, and I gave the milonga the name ‘A Media Luz’. Then the business changed hands again, becoming Outlaws, and the Monday milonga moved to the…

What is Good Navigation

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Robert Hauk

This article provides some guidelines that contribute to better movement of the dance floor. They are inspired by my own experiences in Buenos Aires in the late 1990s at milongas filled with older dancers who had danced most of their lives. Despite the crowding, these milongas were not so hard to dance in because the dancers moved so nicely around…

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