[Tango-L] Volcada (instructional video)

[Jean-Pierre Sighe]

Thank you Larry for your additional useful information and comments.
I agree with you 110% when you say : "Actually ALL parts of a volcada 
combination must be lead" !

Have a great day.

Jean-Pierre S.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <larrynla at juno.com>
To: <tango-L at mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Volcada (instructional video)


Jean-Pierre Sighé writes in the following link -------> The Cruzada MUST be 
lead
and not just assumed.

http://www.tangomagdalena.com/Newsletters/vol12_august08.html

Actually ALL parts of a volcada combination must be lead.  The volcada is 
just
the extreme lean. Lean + amague/front boleo + cruzada is a popular 
combination,
but it's only one of many that start with the lean.

The dibujo ("that famous arc on the floor") during the amague/front boleo is 
an
adorno.  Like all women's adornos it is the woman's option to do it or not. 
If
the man is hurrying the combination she will likely leave it off.

The video accompanying Sighé's text is one of the best YouTube videos of 
several
dozen I've seen which shows lots of volcada combinations, not only because 
of
its video quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4n81J4zkyc

The whole dance is a good example of how to dance with a lady new to a man. 
The
very first volcada, near the beginning, is just a lean.  She is tipped off
balance, with weight forward of her toes, making it a true volcada.  (The 
word
comes from volcar - to upset, overturn, tip over or knock over.)  And it is 
only
a slight lean.

This way the leader can tell if his partner can and will do a lean, rather 
than
panicking and stepping forward with her free foot to regain her balance.

Later on he does a more extreme lean but adds a zarandeo (shake, a twisting
around the vertical axis).  She adorns this by lifting her free foot so that 
she
does almost a boleo to the left and the right.  Another good example of a 
couple
testing their mutual body language.

There are many other volcada combinations, including a carousel, in the rest 
of
the video.

Good selection, Jean-Pierre


Larry de Los Angeles



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