Samba Sacada

ConteoExecuted on a single shared weight transfer rather than a counted basic. In samba de gafieira it is fitted to the samba pulse in 2/4, with the displacement landing exactly as weight leaves the partner's supporting foot; it is not danced as a repeating bounce-step pattern.

Tiempo musicalComfortable in samba de gafieira at roughly 90–110 bpm in 2/4, where the slower partnered tempo gives the shared-axis timing the displacement needs; faster batucada and parade tempos (130+ bpm) do not suit it. In its tango home it is danced to walking-tempo tango and milonga.

• Partnered samba walks (caminhada) in a connected frame, or tango walks
• Shared-axis control and a clear, sensitive lead-follow connection
• Sensitivity to the partner's weight transfer — timing the step to the instant the foot is free

• ✕Kicking or pushing the partner's leg instead of letting the displacement result from stepping into vacated space as the weight leaves it
• ✕Stepping in too early, before the partner's weight has fully transferred, which jams the standing leg and breaks her axis
• ✕Forcing the move into a counted samba bounce-step rhythm; the sacada is a single timed weight transfer, and counting it as a basic destroys the displacement
• ✕On the following side, bracing or resisting rather than releasing the weightless leg to swing freely

• ≠Argentine tango sacada — this is the figure's true home; the samba entry is a borrowed appearance, not a separate move
• ≠'Paso cruzado' / 'cruzado' (cross step) — denotes footwork, not a leg displacement, and is not a name for this figure
• ≠Gancho (hook) — a related gafieira/tango leg interaction in which the leg wraps the partner; it hooks rather than displaces, and is a distinct figure
• ≠Samba batucada / samba no pé — solo footwork-driven samba with no partnered displacement

• Buenos Aires / Río de la Plata (Argentine tango, milonga)

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  The figure's true home; a tango and milonga term, not a Brazilian samba figure.