Dance Concepts to Improve Your Dancing

Most common Types of Move Dynamics (covered in Beginning and Int. Classes):
  1. Guapea, away and together (& variations)
  2. Enchufla
  3. Miami tap and step forward, vacilala type moves.
  4. Exibe step / oppositional dynamic
  5. DiLe Que No
  6. Cuban Tension, walking around him. Walking outside turn (not pirhouettes). Take up and USE space. (correctly).
  7. Closed Position - Core Connection, upper body movement.
  8. Revisalas - moving in square and diamond shapes
Articulations, Lead and Follow Skills to Master for quick comprehension of advanced moves (Ideas we cover in Class) :
  • Latin motion, opposition / contra poste, being anchored into the ground,
  • Enchufla Step, Traveling and Trading places - how to lead and follow
  • Correct distance between core of lead and follow, allowed by positioning, not leaning back, bending forward or using arms.
  • Creating a Frame in which she moves ~ She - Continuous movement around within a frame
  • Leading skill -  Create space for her with arms, show the way  pointing her arm in direction she is going, not pulling.
  • Follows - proactive, but fully weightless and relaxed arms. Leads using momentum & finishing moves.
  • Leading with direction/angle of body, not arms, Arms are only the conduit ~ like antennae, not the doer.
  • Communication by changing the direction of the hand (not using force).
  • Proactive following - he works with the momentum created when you are in motion. don't wait, keep doing the last thing till he changes the lead. Stay in motion.
  • Alardes - when and whether
  • Circle Consciousness. Correct placement in / on the circle
  • Directional guidelines of the Rueda: Los Rayos, la Linea, la Cruza
  • Touching in, connecting, grounding with the group. BE a support and get support.
  • Opposition with each other in the circle and in your pair.
  • Switching between son timing and salsa (on-1 timing or on-3 timing).
  • ponches and punctuating certain beats with the music.
  • Character of Son, Mambo, Rumba & Folkloric
  • Dancing to / internalizing Clave. Never ignoring clave. Sin Clave no hay Son. Verdad!!
  • How to Connect / lean / use each others energy, in Guapea and guapea like moves.
  • Building, storage and release of energy - spring loading, charging the battery, using momentum and release.
Vocabulary of building blocks to master in order to learn advanced moves easily.
  • DLQN, Enchufla, Exibe, Engancha, Setenta / Kentucky ending, Josepha, Abanico, Hook turn to R., Danilo