The Ocho Step in Argentine Tango

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Evan Griffiths and I'm Rebecca Shulman. We're at Dance Manhattan in New York City and we're going to teach you a little something about the Argentine Tango. A very popular step in tango is the ocho. A long time ago the ocho looked something like this. The feet swept around and makes an 8 on the floor. That's the name ocho. Now, today that's considered bad technique. An ocho is something like this. Ochos can forward. Let me demonstrate with Rebecca. Forward ochos or we have one just like this. There's many varieties of ochos. They can be big, they can be small, the can not pivot, or they pivot a lot."