[Tango-L] The Volcada

[larrynla@juno.com]

The discussion of the volcada which Jean-Pierre Sighe pointed out 
http://www.tangomagdalena.com/Newsletters/vol11_july08.html
totally misrepresents what a volcada is (as well as being confusing in other ways).

Volcada comes from the verb meaning to tip over, or pull off balance. It is an extreme lean. That is all. Not an extreme lean + a wide front boleo ending in a cruzada, as people might think because the three are often put together.

Dancers can simply do a volcada and then recover to a normal embrace. Or they can hold the carpa (literally tent, an upside-down V stance) for a few beats.  Or do a drag. Or a carousel. Or several other actions. Including the popular wide front boleo ending in a cross.

there are lots of variations on the woman's front boleo. One is to make it an amague, a kick straight back instead of to the side wrapping around the woman's knee. Nor need it need to end in a cruzada, as the article suggests. The front boleo could lead into a normal boleo, followed by another front boleo. And finally into the woman stepping straight back with the free foot instead of a cross in front.

If anybody cares to talk more about volcadas, we might talk about how to lead into it. But this message is long enough already.

Larry de Los Angeles

PS The volcada is not a nuevo tango move. It was old in 1989 when I started tango, long before anyone heard the term nuevo tango used to label a way of dancing.


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