Sofia Saborido 11-13 April 2025 at Berretin

She started with "monkey walking" with bent knees, leaning forward pivoted at the hips, and feet apart, with a lot of bounce. I believe this was supposed to loosen us up and be something different from our usual tango walk.

Use contrabody to extend the leg, after a delay. Start with the floor, that produces the contrabody, and that starts propelling the free leg.

Use the floor to propel through the standing leg.

She talked about level steps, dipping steps, and bounce steps (highest in the middle).

Be aware of what the ankle is doing.

Ball of the foot on floor Chest first then hips at least for front pivots

Front with leg ending out Front with kneess as together

Back. One push for step, one for pivot

With partner. Maintain bubble around us.

Contact is communication.

Exercises:

Lead with rib cage, followers hands on ribs. Distinguish between pivot and step, Make sure the lead comes from the floor through the foot.

Side steps, front steps, back steps in open embrace.

Open steps in close embrace

Stepping towards the middle of the follows step brings us closer together, perhaps back to close embrace.

For convenience, we measure tone on a scale from 1 to 10.

Exercises:

Played sounds, some with a beat, and asked us to move to them.

Tango, in embrace, eyes closed, not taking steps but agreeing on how to move

20s music. They emphasized the downness of beats, landing very heavily. They found a particularly heavy tango with few flourishes.

30s music lighter, tiny quick steps. This appeared to be 40s music.

50s music slower, swoopy

Pauses can be freezing in midstep. Eg. Romance de mi barrio.