Check our version of The Salida Básica avoiding the first step going backward and adding a Front Voleo.
The Salida Básica can be used to dance an entire phrase as they have 8 steps from start to finish. A typical musical phrase has 4 bars of 4 beats each and the beats used to dance “in time” are the first (Strong) and the third (Semi Strong).
We tend to avoid the first step of the Salida Básica on very busy dance floor because steps backwards in the direction of the floor can be dangerous.
This would leave the sequence with only 7 steps and we will start with the other leg.
To compensate for this missing step we add a forward Voleo to our sequence.
Another particularity of the Salida Básica is that it can be repeated in a chain, It begins and ends in the same position for both dancers.
We want the same thing to happens with our version, that’s why we are going to leave the last pulse “in the air”, so we are not going to step on it.
Katrin And Jorge’s Movements are :
Katrin’s Movements
- OPEN STEP – counterclockwise
- BACK CROSS – counterclockwise
- OPEN STEP – counterclockwise
- FRONT CROSS – counterclockwise
- PIVOT – counterclockwise
- VOLEO – counterclockwise
- PIVOT – clockwise
- OPEN STEP – counterclockwise
- OPEN STEP – clockwise
Jorge’s Movements
- OPEN STEP – clockwise
- FRONT CROSS – clockwise
- OPEN STEP – clockwise
- OPEN STEP – counterclockwise
- OPEN STEP – clockwise
- OPEN STEP – counterclockwise
We hope you like it, let us know your thoughts in the comment section and if you like to see more Tango Sequences, please visit the related post or our YouTube Channel with more than 100 original sequences.
We have online classes where we explain all the technical details to make it comfortably with a Lead-Follow dynamic, not just choreographically, therefore you can actually dance it.
See you next week with more Pasitos !!!
