Luis Marcelo Gutierrez

Focusing on our dancing as partners--not merely as leaders or followers--we will explore the different points at which to hold one another, without breaking the tango embrace. Stress will be layed on how these adjustments to the embrace can help us to make the movement smoother and clearer. At all times we will use the center as reference and lead.

Evolving out of my experience with ballet, my interest lies in exploring how ballet ideas can be used to improve the quality of our movements in Tango, as well as help our lead to be more direct, precise and clear. Ballet dancers refer to "en dehor" and "en dedans" to explain turns - I use these to explain my idea of the "inside" and the "outside" when we dance around each other