Oito Costas com Costas
Figura ocho de forró mediante un paso espalda con espalda
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Oito costas com costas ("figura ocho, espalda con espalda") es una figura giratoria en forró, el baile social de pareja originado en Brasil — el país más grande de Sudamérica, y la única nación de las Américas que tiene el portugués entre sus lenguas oficiales.[1] Amplía el básico lateral de dos pasos del baile a un patrón de pista en bucle: las parejas trazan una figura ocho y, en cada cruce de los bucles, giran hasta que sus espaldas se enfrentan brevemente antes de desenrollarse para volver a mirarse. El líder mantiene una mano unida — típicamente su izquierda a la derecha de ella — y la levanta para abrir el abrazo, enviando al seguidor por el primer bucle mientras gira en sentido contrario para que la pareja pase espalda con espalda; luego invierte el movimiento para conducir un segundo bucle espejo y vuelve al básico. El seguidor mantiene el pulso del básico, gira aproximadamente medio alrededor del eje compartido para alcanzar la posición espalda con espalda, vuelve a mirarse, y luego replica el bucle opuesto. Bailado en compás de forró 2/4, se adapta a música de tempo medio relajado y se inscribe dentro de la tradición más amplia de música popular brasileña, marcada históricamente por la fusión de géneros domésticos e importados.[2]
Cómo se baila
Señales para líder y seguidor
Conteo2/4 forró time. Built on the lateral quick-quick basic (one weight change per beat); the full figure spans roughly two short phrases (~8 weight changes) — about four counts for the first loop into the back-to-back pass, four for the mirror loop back to facing. Forró has no On1/On2 frame; the figure floats over the lateral pulse rather than breaking on a fixed count.
Líder
From the lateral basic, raise the joined hand (commonly his left to her right) to open the embrace and step to initiate rotation. Send the follower along the first loop while turning the opposite way so the two pass back to back; let the joined hand travel over or behind to keep the link through the crossing. At the eight's centre reverse the lead into a mirror-image second loop, then lower the hand and close to the basic facing her. Rotation is staged: open about a quarter to bring the pair side-by-side, continue to roughly half-around (back-to-back) at the crossing, then unwind — two opposing half-passes, not one continuous spin.
Seguidor
Keep the basic's pulse alive and follow the raised hand into a rotation, turning about a quarter to side-by-side and continuing to roughly half-around so the backs meet at the crossing; re-face as the loop completes. Mirror the motion the opposite way for the second loop, then settle back to the lateral basic facing the leader. Maintain the hand connection throughout — let it pass overhead or behind rather than releasing — and stay low in the knees so the rotation stays grounded.
Tiempo musicalComfortable at relaxed mid-tempo forró — roughly the pace of a moderate xote (about 110-135 bpm felt pulse) — where the back-to-back pass has room to breathe. Faster baião and arrasta-pé (150 bpm and up) compress the rotation and demand a tighter frame; very slow tempos open room to stylise the pass. As a turning figure it reads best over a steady, danceable groove rather than at the genre's fastest extremes.
Aprende antes
Prerrequisitos
- Forró básico (lateral two-step)
- Basic volta/giro (turn)
- Costas com costas (standalone back-to-back pass)
- Maintaining a hand connection through a turn
Ten cuidado
Errores comunes
- Releasing the joined hand at the back-to-back crossing, severing the connection that defines the figure.
- Under-rotating each loop so the partners never reach true back-to-back and the eight collapses into a single flat arc.
- Losing the lateral basic's pulse so the loops drift off the 2/4 beat.
- Leading the rotation by pushing the follower around rather than through the raised-hand frame.
- Standing up out of the soft-knee forró posture so the turn floats and the embrace pops open.
No confundir con
Movimientos que se confunden
- Oito alone — the plain figure-eight without the back-to-back pass.
- Costas com costas used alone — a single back-to-back rotation, not the full figure-eight.
- Ocho — the Argentine tango figure-eight, a solo footwork pattern, not a partnered passing figure.
- Salsa or bachata figure-eight styling — different dances and mechanics; 'paso cruzado'/'cruzado' refer to cross-step footwork, not this figure.
Por el mundo
Otros nombres
Forró universitário (São Paulo and national dance schools)
Oito costas com costas
the codified full name of the figure-eight performed through a back-to-back pass
Forró universitário (informal usage)
Oito
shortened where the back-to-back reading of the eight is the default
Forró universitário (informal usage)
Costas com costas
emphasising the back-to-back pass; also names the standalone back-to-back rotation
International forró scenes (Europe and elsewhere)
Oito costas com costas
Portuguese terms are generally retained outside Brazil
Referencias
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Bailar Editorial Team. (2026). Oito Costas com Costas. Bailar Biblioteca. Recuperado el 29 de junio de 2026, de https://bailar.site/biblioteca/move/forro-oito-costas-com-costas
Bailar Editorial Team. “Oito Costas com Costas.” Bailar Biblioteca, 2026, bailar.site/biblioteca/move/forro-oito-costas-com-costas. Consultado el 29 de junio de 2026.
Bailar Editorial Team. “Oito Costas com Costas.” Bailar Biblioteca. Consultado el 29 de junio de 2026. https://bailar.site/biblioteca/move/forro-oito-costas-com-costas.
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