When I was learning tango, I often found myself thinking about how to prepare for a move and where to go from there. As an enthusiast for the graphic representations, for my own use I produced diagrams to aid my memory. They are not meant to be comprehensive, and sometimes don’t include precursor moves. Some moves are omitted because they were too difficult to diagram meaningfully. I hope you will find them useful. It will be necessary to understand two aspects of the diagrams:
- Compact Tango Notation is the text description of moves.
- Flow Diagram Guide is a description of the boxes and connectors.
Flow Diagrams
- Americana Flow
- Facing Flow Diagrams – Positions where the partners are facing with the weight on various foot combinations.
- Face(C), Cruzada Flow – Facing with weight on closed side feet.
- Face(O) Flow – Facing with weight on open side feet.
- From
- Giro / Molinete Flow
- Ochos – Overview, front and back ochos.
- From FCross and BCross (Ocho) Flow – High level overview.
- Front Ocho (Front Cross) Flow
- Back Ocho (Back Cross) Flow
- Ocho Cortado Flow
- Paradas
- Parada Front Cross Flow
- Parada Pivot Flow
- Parada Side Flow – Eg at WR BCross
- Pasadas
- Sacadas
- Sacada WR FCross (Ocho) Flow
- Sacada WL FCross (Ocho) Flow
- Sacada Misc Flow – Five additional sacadas.
- Sailor Flow
- Sandwich Flow
- Walk Parallel Flow