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Bylaugh One weekend, in November 2003, saw a series of Tango workshops held in the recently-refurbished Orangery of Bylaugh Hall in Norfolk. Rodolfo Aguerrodi and Miho Omaki led workshops with a small group of local or temporarily resident participants on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - morning and afternoon. We also visited the local milonga in Norwich on the Friday night. These notes are abridged "aides-memoire"; you need Rodolfo and Miho's coaching to fully understand what is going on. |
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The first part of the boleo workshops focused on exercises to help followers to relax their legs and to know how they felt when moving in boleos: |
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Follower stands upright alongside her leader, steadying herself by putting her arms around his shoulders. Leader uses a hand under his follower's horizontal thigh, just above her knee, to support her freely dangling leg: |
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| Leader gently shakes his follower's relaxed calf and foot from side to side ... | |||||||||
| ... and back and forth ... | |||||||||
| ... occasionally dropping it to test that it is truly relaxed | |||||||||
Follower stands alongside, and at right angles to, the back of a chair as support. Leader, sitting on her other side, uses a hand in front and behind her vertical thigh, just above her knee, to swing her dangling leg: |
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| Leader gently swings his follower's relaxed thigh, calf and foot back and forth ... | |||||||||
| .... making her leg "fly" like a swingboat ... | |||||||||
| ... occasionally interrupting the backward movement to get a gancho-like reaction from her calf and foot | |||||||||
We then practised the pivot of a forward ocho using widespread arms so the leader could provide more energy to the pivot ... |
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| ... with the leader adding "servo-assistance" to the pivot so follower's relaxed leg flicks across in front of her weighted leg, making thigh to thigh contact, ... | |||||||||
| ... which interrupts its movement, causing her calf and foot to flick up ton the other side of her weighted leg ... | |||||||||
| ... while the leader focuses on feeling the flick's natural end-point before reversing the pivot to bring her leg back and down in front of her | |||||||||
We then practised this forward ocho with some pivots enhanced by forward boleos and some not - at random to avoid anticipation |
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We then practised the pivot of a backward ocho in a similar way... |
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| ... completing the normal 180 backward pivot gently then ... | |||||||||
| .... with the leader adding "servo-assistance" as he reverses the 180 pivot so follower's relaxed calf and foot lift and gradually fall again as this forward pivot completes ... | |||||||||
| ... before leading a gentle 180 backward pivot to complete the backward ocho | |||||||||
We then practised this backward ocho with some pivots enhanced by backward boleos and some not - at random to avoid anticipation. |
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Then, a few days later, we moved on to trying out these moves: |
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©2003 Frank Morris |
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