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05.07.15. Beginners 2. Lateral painting a circle with the arm of the lady and left turn.

Juli 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we learn an easy combination for the beginners. The idea is to do the lateral step and a left turn but in a cool way.

Important for the ladies: Go your third step on the spot and let you arms stretched for this moves.

For the guys:

  1. Leading the lateral you bring your lady first to your right and after that you change the grip of your left hand (the thumb goes down).
  2. You lead the next lateral and after that you turn to your right. At the end of your turn you need to be a little bit far away of the lady to feel the tension of her arm.
  3. You lead the next lateral and with your right arm you will paint on 3 a circle with the arm of the lady (watch the video).
  4. You lead the turn of the lady but you keep the contact with the lady with your right hand.

05.07.15. Beginners 2. Take care about your posture: shoulders down, pelvis to the front and closing the ribs.

Juli 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we are speaking about an important matter for your posture while dancing zouk. It’s about bringing your shoulders and your pelvis in a line (shoulders down and pelvis to the front) and to contract your center closing your ribs. In zouk we do alot of crazy things but with control and tension in our body.

Have fun!

01.07.15. Beginners 2. Be sensitiv about the hair of the lady.

Juli 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Dear guys: Be sensitive if the lady lady has the hair on her face and help her to get it out.

Variation 1: Elastic going backwards.

Guys: You go with your right to the front but you don’t transfer the weight to your right, stay on your left. Watch the video to understand, that the leading is like a circle. Ladies: You will back with your left leg but at the beginning you don’t transfer the weight to your left (the guy doesn’t let you go to your left). First go with your chest to the front and after that with your head. If you are down it’s important that you connect your hand with your upper body to feel the leading of the guy.

Variation 2. Chassé going backwards and elastic.

Now we want to do a chassé. Watch the video to see the steps. Guys, at the beginning you need some energy with a preparation down and going up after that. On two you will lead the lady like in a circle (watch the video) for her to bend to the front and on 3 you go with your right foot to the front but you don’t transfer the weight (you will do it little by little). Ladies, on 2 you bend to the front, first with your chest, then you go with your head. From here everything is like in variation 2.

01.07.15. Beginners 2. Travelling with the lady in a close position.

Juli 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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The first three steps.

Opening like lateral but at the end the lady doesn’t come back, she is crossing backwards (and the guys are crossing  forwards). Ladies: You cross backwards with the right but your upper body has a torsion to the left. Guys: You can lead this torsion.

 

Left turn.

Normal steps for the lady. For the guys: We go to the right with the lady and then we cross backwards. Your right hand has contact with the lady the hole time.

 

The beginning of the next three steps.

Guys: You want to lead this steps in the line, now you has to cross to the street to the other side.

Have fun!

28.06.15. Dancing in the close close position.

Juni 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Dancing in the close close position is one of the best things you can do while enjoying zouk.

For the ladies:

  • Think you want to go through the guy for keeping the contact
  • Your right arm is over his right shoulder.
  • Going backwards do big steps but stay with the tension to the front.

For the guys:

  • Place the right side of your upper body in the middle of her upper body.
  • You want to hug the lady, you try to separate your shoulder blades.
  • Your right arm goes to her right shoulder blade. Hug the lady!
  • Going backwards do big steps.
  • Relax your upper body and don’t do any disturbing movements.

Have fun!

24.06.15. Beginners 2 / Intermediate. Olé with elastic and cambré.

Juni 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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Today we repeat the olé step and after that we did one elastic with a cambré. Here you can see the olé step:

http://zouk-germany.com/17-06-15-beginners-intermediate-ole-step/

If the lady should do the bumerangue, you will get her with the left hand and lead her around of you three steps, before you lead the preparation for the elastic and the cambré with your body. This part is very important: for leading the lady with your body you will bend your upper body to the left for the elastic, to the right for the cambré and to the left again for the wave. If the lady is doing the wave backwards, you will put your right foot between both feet of the lady before you go into the basic step.

Ladies: for the elastic you are going first with your hips and then with your chest. Your head is the last part of your body going to the front. Do a good preparation for the cambré putting your pelvis to the front and contracting your center, then you go backwards but your knees are going to the front. For the wave you go first with your head and after that with your body.

24.06.15. Beginners 2 / Intermediate. Learning to dance big.

Juni 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Sometimes it’s nice if you try to improve the quality of your dance and not only learn steps. Today there is one advice for your training, one idea to dance bigger, like in a performance.

Have fun!

21.06.15. Dancing with control and not like a robot.

Juni 22, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Control your moves while dancing is very important because we are not robots! If you want to play with your partner or with the music you have to control every single step.

This kind of exercises helps you to improve the quality of your dance.

We repeat today this step also:

http://zouk-germany.com/14-06-15-beginners-door-right-turn-beginning-basic-step-lateral-step/

Have fun!

17.06.15. Beginners / Intermediate. The olé step.

Juni 22, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we learn the “olé” step.

For the ladies. First you turn on the line to the left and then you will paint a half of circle with your right foot on the floor. Your right hand is painting also half of circle over the foot. Then you will go two steps backwards and the last thing to do is the bumerangue step.

For the guys. If the lady is painting half of circle with the right to the front, it’s very nice if you are painting a half of circle with the left backwards.

There are two difficult points in this step for the leading:

1. To lead the circle of the lady. You have to paint the circle with your leading while the lady is going to the front (Watch the video).

2. For the leading of the bumerangue you have to turn your body to the left (in this way the lady will go into the line) and to go backwards (and the lady will have the energy for the turn).

Have fun!

16.06.15. Musicality. Some moves on the spot to play with the music

Juni 17, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

We have a nice musicality zouk course in Bremen every Tuesday. Today we put some moves we did on the spot into the music. The beat is just one part of the music, a normal song has a lot of information, like the melody or the voice. In the musicality course we try to make the music visible. And singing can help you :-)  Watch 03:48 to see an example to put this moves into the music.

Have fun!

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