LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Basic Tap - Embellishment

Dancer: Jennifer Bratt, -- Shoes: available through -- More Info on Embellishments: -- Video: A small light tap is one of the easiest and most basic embellishments, and is a nice way for the follower to mark and express the double-time (’quick, quick’) - or the ’and’ count in between the beats - while the leader is leading a step on the whole beat (’slow’). A tap can be done in the middle of virtually any step - back, side, forward, ocho. At the mid-point of the step, as your free foot brushes past your standing foot, tap your free foot against the ground. Do it with just the ball of the foot, with the foot tipped slightly towards the metatarsal/big toe edge (this poised foot placement is the common aesthetic of tango). Make sure you still arrive into the next step led by the leader on the whole beat. Also be sure that after you tap you keep stretc