Argentine Tango: The Embrace

Video Transcript

"In this clip we will talk about the embrace the most important thing in this tango dance. So the embrace is like we are embracing, just walking on the street, we walk on the street and we finally decide to dance. So we step together but the arm of the man is staying at this level and not down in the hips because then I will not be able to move my feet if he's holding from the hip. So here he gives me freedom so I can move. Then my arm, the lady arm is going to be embracing all his back. Not only here, but all his back. Then this arm is the part that is the open part of this embrace and it has to have a space like for a third person, a baby or a lover, whatever a couple can have, you choose it. So it should not be here but actually this is because it's very important if the other couples pass by not to disturb our dance by moving our arms. We have our territory here that they should respect. If we dance here they will not ask and will disturb our feet. So we don't want that. Okay so its very important to make very clear this embrace. Then we have the open embrace that it's the same one but a little bit far from each other for the show."