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30.06.15. Advanced. Rond the jambe with spiral 1, elastic and cambré.

Hi!

Little by little:

Rond de jambe.

  • Guys: you want the lady stays on her left foot. Please don’t bring her another more step to the front. Go down with your body and with your leading for her to understand and pay attention. Turn your upper body to lead the rond de jambe.

  • For the ladies: Your arms are connected with your upper body, you need some tension for it. Stretch your right leg and you can look at your foot too for the styling.

Spiral 1.

  • Guys: You go with your left foot to the front to make some space for the lady. You bring your right hand to your left shoulder and with your left hand you will paint a circle for to lead the spiral. Think “first the lady, then I go”. Your eyes can follow your left hand. At the end you are facing the lady.

  • Ladies: look at your left hand and stretch your body to the front, that’s the most important thing. Think always on stretching and not on making short your back.

Elastic.

  • Guys. Lead the elastic with your body and then you let your right hand on the shoulder blade of the lady.

  • Ladies: Go first with your foot, with your hips, with your chest and at the end with your head. If you feel the hand of the guy on your back, press against the contact to understand the leading.

For the cambré.

  • It´s a normal cambré. Please ladies, you need a good preparation putting your pelvis to the front, your chest in and your head to the front.

Have fun!

30.06.15. Beginners. Combination: Lateral, bumerangue under the arm, turn for both and wave.

Hi!

Some tips for the combination:

Bumerangue. Guys: Bring the lady into the line, pulling from her left hand. Your right hand stays over her head till the second 1 of the bumerangue. Ladies: Do your steps in the line and watch the video to see the ladystyling.

For the turn of both. Guys: Focus on the lady and come back to her, you come back with your third step to her. Ladies. Remember to close your legs and wait for the contact of the guy on your shoulder blade, don’t go alone without the contact.

For the wave. Guys: You can do a little preparation for the wave bringing your shoulders back on three before the wave comes.

Have fun!

23.06.15. Our video number 200 on the youtube channel! Intermediate. Yoyo with head.

200 is a really nice number and we want to thank you for your support. We will work hard to give you every week new videos and for making possible the biggest website for learning brazilian zouk.

Today we will do a head movement at the end of the yoyo.

For guys: ending the yoyo you want the lady goes the first step to the front and with the head to the left side. With your right under arm you will push the lady to the front. For the head movement you will bend a little bit back and bring your right hand up. You will bring the lady another step into the turn and the right hand stays up. If the lady is going the third step you will bring the hand down. In this way the lady starts moving the head to the front. If the head of the lady is in the front, guys, you will give some energy for the ladies to bring the head up.

For the ladies: you will feel your right shoulder goes up and you let your head fall to the left. The first and the second step your head stays to the left. During the third step your head is going to the front. if you paint half of circle to the front remember to put your chest in for not to lose your balance to the front. For some ladystyling bringing your head up, watch the video.

23.06.15. Beginners. Combination with bumerangue reverse, elastic without elastic and cambré.

Hi!

Today we repeat the step we did last week.

http://zouk-germany.com/16-06-15-beginners-combination-bumerangue-reverse-elastic-without-elastic-cambre/

Have fun!

 

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

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!

16.06.15. Intermediate. Combination: Titanic from elastic and bumerangue with olé

Hi!

We have a nice combination for the intermediate today without head movements.

We start the titanic from the elastic. Here you will find a nice explanation:

http://zouk-germany.com/16-06-15-intermediate-titanic-elastic-step/

Now guys you will lead the bumerangue step with your left hand. The first step the lady goes and you go on 2. On 3 you will let your right hand over the shoulder of the lady. Watch the video to see how to lead the lady for her to cross in front with the right. Ladies: it’s very nice if you try to paint a circle with your right foot on the floor and you can go with your right hand over your foot too.

Guys, take care about the lady and bring your left arm over her head. Then you will lead the lady two steps back, the first with your right hand and the second with your left hand. After that you will turn the lady in but pull first into the line.

Have fun!

16.06.15. Intermediate. Titanic from the elastic step.

I love this beginning for the titanic step.

For the guys:

  • The point is to block the lady with your left hand on her left shoulder on 2. First you lead the elastic on 1 and on 2 you put your left hand on her left shoulder. Normally the ladies go with the left hand up dancing the elastic and you have to avoid it.
  • On 3 you will be on the other side and then lead the lady two steps backwards openig to your right.

For the ladies: I like the styling opening with your right hand to the right, because you move in this direction. Look before you stretch your arm because at the party we don’t have enough space and you can hit other dancers.

16.06.15. Beginners. Combination: Bumerangue reverse, elastic without elastic and cambré.

Hi!

1. Bumerangue reverse

You can dance it from the basic step or from lateral step. For the ladies: you are turning on the line, try to go your steps always further on the line. Guys: you need some space if you want to lead the lady into the line, because the arms of the lady have to be stretched. You go the first step backwards with the left to pull the lady into the line (go with your body). You will hold both hands of the lady together. While turning the lady the hands are over her head, not over yours.

2. Elastic without elastic

For the ladies, you go just to the front like in the basic step. Guys: with the right hand you bring the lady to the front, the left hand stays in front of her face. On 3 you have to be in the other side weil you want to lead her into the cambre.

3. Cambre

While the lady is going back she have to bend to the front. Guys, first you lead the lady back and one moment later you lead her down with your left hand and with your right under arm. Ladies: do the preparation for the cambre, contract your center, put your pelvis to the front, your chest is in and your head is to the front. If you do the cambre, your knees go to the front while you are rolling backwards. Your head is the last part of your body going back. If the guy lead the wave, you start it moving your head to the front. Guys, watch the video to see how to lead the move with your body.

Have fun!

16.06.15. Beginners. The elastic without elastic

 

The strange name will help you to remember the step :-)

We want to go around the lady but we don’t want, that she bend to the front. For it, guys, (1) you will hold your left hand in front of her face and (2) with your right hand you bring the lady to the front on 1 and backwards on the next 1. If the lady try to do the normal elastic, you can block her with your left hand.

Have fun!

09.06.15. Advanced. Turn on one leg from titanic and combination with turn on the line with head + flamingo + pendulum

Hi!

Today we just repeat the last things we did in the class.

  • Here you will find the turn on one leg from the titanic step:

http://zouk-germany.com/02-06-15-advanced-titanic-step-new-beginning-beautifel-turn-one-leg/

  • And hier you find the combination with the turns on the line with head, flamingo and pendulum:

http://zouk-germany.com/19-05-15-interm-adv-combination-titanic-head-pizza-turn-flamingo-pendulum-cambre/

Have fun!

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