Overview

Footwork	Upper body	Head	Additional material
Feet	Hips and chest	Preparation	Styling
Zouk turn	Wave		Connection
Turn on the line	Elastic		Musicality
Turn on the spot	Cambré		Social dancing
			Additional steps
			Combinations

1. Feet & Legs

1.1 Feet.

• Basic step.
• Dancing the basic step in the close close position.
• Transfering the weight. The first 20 seconds with a new partner.
• Basic step feeling the beat.
• Feeling the basic step. Two basic steps backwards and wave.

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1.2 Zouk turn

     a. Lateral step

• Lateral step.
• Lateral behind the lady. Three possibilities.
• Lateral for the lady behind the guy, cross step for the guy.

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     b. Cross step

• Cross step.

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     c. Left turn

• Left turn from basic step and lateral step.
• Left turn from cross step.
• Left turn from lateral with left hand up and right hand down.
• Combination: Lateral, left turn and lateral again.
• New possibilities for the turns just changing the hands.
• The door: Left turn with right up and left down.
• The door playing with the hips to the side.
• The door with hips and different ends.
• Turning the lady with both hands up and turn for the guy.

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      d. Right turn

• Right turn from basic step.
• Right turn from lateral.
• Lateral, right turn and basic step (two variations).
• Combination: Lateral, right turn and lateral again.
• The door with a right turn at the beginning (from basic step and from lateral).

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1.3 Turn on the line

     a. Preparation: Opening into the line.

• Opening the lateral step into the line.
• Opening into the line after a zouk turn.

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     b. Normal turn on the line.

• Normal turn on the line and return (yoyo) after a left turn.
• Normal turn on the line changing the direction 90°.
• Normal turn on the line changing the direction 180°.
• Right turn on the line after a left turn.
• Turn to the right for the guys after a ioio.

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     c. Long left turn on the line (bumerangue or bonus)

• Long left turn on the line from basic step (the lady will be blocked).
• Long left turn on the line (bumerangue) from lateral.
• Long left turn on the line with turn to the right for the guys.
• Long left turn on the line with left turn for the guys.
• Long left turn on the line after cross step.
• Bumerangue with the little sun variation.
• Improving the bumerangue: some details.
• Double long left turn on the line with turn to the left (with chocolate) for the guys.

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     d. Long right turn on the line (bumerangue reverse)

• Long right turn on the line (Bumerangue reverse) from basic step. Two variations.
• Long right turn on the line (bumerangue reverse) from basic step and some other steps.
• Long right turn on the line under the arm (and “ochos” behind the lady).
• Long turn on the line with turn for the guys from side step. 
• Leading the bumerangue reverse with an impulse.
• Walking around the guy and bumerangue reverse.

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     e. Titanic.

• Titanic.
• New possibilities for the titanic step.
• From titanic into the prison step.

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     f. Prison.

• Prison step.
• Prison step with more than one turn (and how to dance at a party without space).
• Prison step: How to change from one side to the other side.
• Cross step behind the lady and prison step.

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1.4 Turn on the spot

• Turn on the spot together to the right.
• Turn on the spot together to the right and cross step.
• Turn on the spot together to the left.

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2. Upper body

2.1 Hips and chest

• Basic moves for the hips and the chest (basic step, wave, elastic).
• Going with the hips: Lateral for the guys and normal zouk turns.
• Going with the hips: Lateral step for the ladies.
• The connection between your feet and your upper body.
• Playing on the spot with the hips, upper body and the head of the lady.
• Playing with the hips after a left turn for the lady.

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2.2 Wave

• The basic wave.
• The wave from the lateral.

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2.3 Bending to the front or elastic

• Bend to the front (elastic) from basic step.
• Bend to the front (elastic) after a left turn holding both hands (left hand up, right hand down).
• Bend to the front (elastic) and be behind the lady.
• Three possibilities after bending to the front (snake, up, cambré).
• Elastic variation 1, looking to the front.
• Elastic without elastic.
• Elastic in the close position from basic step (guy to the side).
• Be sensitiv with the hair of the lady.

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2.4 Bending back or cambré

•  Cambré from basic step going the guys to the front.
• Left turn + cambré (and some other steps)
• Cambré after a left turn with both hands (left up, right down).
• Cambré after long left turn on the line (bumerangue).

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3. Head (preparation)

• Easy head movements.
• Easy head movements staying in front of the lady.
• Easy head movements after a left turn, turn on the spot and cambré.
• Easy head movements after yo-yo.

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4. Additional material

     a. Styling

• Men’s Styling: Lateral footwork 1.
• Ladystyling: Lateral – left turn – lateral with styling for the left hand.
• Take care about your posture: shoulders down, pelvis to the front, close your ribs.

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     b. Connection: Leading and Following.

• Learning to follow: the contact on the shoulder blade (and some steps).
• Leading and following by long turn on the line (bumerangue).
• Leading and following: crossing steps and head movements on the spot.
• Following: “First my arm, then I go”.
• Following: the contact in the close close position.
• Following means to go active against the contact.

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     c. Musicality

• Feeling the music and dancing for yourself.
• The structure of the music: 4 X 8.

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     d. Social dancing.

• Social dancing: the first 20 seconds and the feelings of our partner.

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     e. Additional steps

• Little opening to the right.
• Big opening to the right (closed position, 180°).
• Big opening to the right with a wave at the end.
• The thrower.
• The thrower with a turn for the guys.
• Turn for the guys under the arm of the lady from lateral.
• Turn bending to the front.
• The self-hug.
• The lady behind of the guy after a left turn.
• Outside turn to the right from lateral for the guys with a left turn (hand down).
• The pizza turn.
• Back on back.
• Back on back from lateral step.
• The ping pong from the basic step.
• The ping pong from the lateral.
• The ping pong with turn for the guys.
• Yo-yo with a cool end.
• The guys turn in from yoyo and turn the lady with the upper arm.
• Differences between dancing with turn on the line or with normal turns.
• Turning to the left for the guys while leading the yoyo.
• Pizza turn to the left for the guys.
• Travelling with the lady in the close position.
• Travelling on the close position and playing with the hands.
• The X-turn.
• Little steps looking both in the same direction.
• Pseudo-Ioio.
• Turning together 180° to the right.

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     f. Combinations.

• Lateral-turn-lateral & long right turn on the line & left turn + cambré.
• Lateral, left turn and lateral again.
• Lateral, right turn and lateral again.
• Lateral, left turn and elastic.
• Lateral, left turn and wave.
• Lateral painting a circle with the arm of the lady and left turn.
• Cross step + left turn for the guys + left turn for the ladies.
• Long turn on the line with elastic and wave.
• Long right turn on the line changing the hands and ewith elastic.
• Left turn for the ladies and left turn for the guys.
• Left turn from lateral with the left hand up and the right hand down + wave, elastic and snake.
• Left turn from basic step, cross step, lateral, left turn guys, left turn ladies, wave.
• Right turn, yoyo, wave and yoyo again.
• Right turn from basic step, lateral and elastic.
• Pulling the lady aroung of you, lateral, left turn and elastic variation 1.
• Little sun, turn with both hands down, wave and ping pong.
• Little sun and snake.
• Little sun, turn with both hands down, wave and ping pong.
• Bumerangue reverse, elastic without elastic and cambré.
• Titanic playing theater and bumerangue with turn for the guys.
• Decorating the lateral with the hands, turn backwards for the guys and titanic from elastic.
• Pseudo-ioio and ping pong.
• Opening from basic step, bumerangue reverse and elastic.
• Pizza turn to the right from lateral + bumerangue.
• Turning 180° to the right and ending in a wave.
• Bumerangue reverse with left up and right down, lateral and the door on the line.

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