Pica Pica

The Patio de tango website has been down for more than a week, which is bad news for them. But here is the summary from last week’s lesson at Bondi, concentrating on forward and backward ochos:

Tango lessons are usually Thursday night at the Spanish Club, but we couldn’t make it this week, so went for our Level 1 Lesson 6 to a different venue, Bondi Pavilion, this afternoon. The clip shows Pedro and Maria doing the steps from “Level 1″, although with more decoration – not to mention more elegance and panache – than we beginners can.

You can read about them at the Patio de Tango website.

New shoes – suitable for a tanguero! We must be getting serious about tango!

The problem is now for me to dance well enough to justify having such amazing objects of style on my feet!

After all those years when learning to dance seemed like a great idea to do “sometime“, Sarah and I went to an introductory tango session on Saturday, and are fired up to have lessons at Patio de Tango.

The teacher was really reassuring, and started at the very beginning: first, just stand there. Then progress to shifting your weight back and forth from one foot to the other. Later we progressed to walking forward, using first one foot, then the other! And so on.

At this stage I just want to stress that this is Argentine tango, not ballroom tango (or the “dreaded slow-slow-quick-quick-slow” as it seems to be known).