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Salsa Dance - Basic Footwork

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    TAP??
    What's with this tap at the basic step?? I never seen it before... o_O

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Terry is the owner and principal male dance instructor of Terry Dean’s Dance Studio, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has been teaching ballroom dancing for 30 years and opened his own successful studio following a 19 year career with Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Terry has received accolades for his choreography and has been honored as Virginia State’s Top Studio and Top Teacher twice. He and his staff teach students of all levels, whether they are interested in social dancing, exhibition dancing, or competitive ballroom dance sport. He has led many of his students to win top level gold medal competitions, and he is pleased to share his expertise with you today.

Salsa Dance - Basic Footwork

In this video, Terry teaches the basic patterns and techniques of the Salsa, and provides the fundamental knowledge you need to get started with this wildly popular Latin dance. This video series is designed for the beginner, but there are techniques that the intermediate dancer will find useful as well. Terry demonstrates exercises to help get ready your body for dancing and teaches the basic pattern of the Salsa. He shows the techniques that provide the characteristic styling of the Salsa, and finally adds variations that will make dancing the Salsa quite enjoyable.

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Terry Dean: Hi! I am Terry Dean from Terry Dean Dance Studio. Today we are working with you on Salsa. Today what we are going to do the basic step in the Salsa and we do the basic step in the Salsa, its going to be made of a rocking steps, side steps and tapping steps. So whats going to happen is the man is going to start with his left foot while ladies starts with the right foot and he is going to do forward rocking and she does back. Rock-step then he is going to do a side step to his left and she goes right and then tap his foot, so its kind of go rock-step-step-tap. Then he is going to another rock, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tab, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tab, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, good. So what happens is when we are doing the rocking step, I am going to just demonstrate straight on, I do forward rock, rock-step, side and when I take this side step I am going to tap. This is going to be a quick-quick-slow action. Quick-quick-slow-tap. Then I am going to do a back rock, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick. So when we are doing it we do in quick-quick-slow and then we are tapping on in and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow, good. Now, the basic step is going to rotate to the left. So we are not going to be just standing and facing each other the whole time dancing, we are going to be turning so thats the pattern that we are going to be doing where we are going to gently rotate the body as we do the exact same footwork, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, rock-step-step-tap, turning slightly to the left as I do the basic, rock-step-step-tap, quick-quick-slow, quick-quick-slow-and, quick-quick-slow. So thats your basic Salsa and next we are going to be work on the posture and frame to give Salsa that really Latin look.

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