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Berkshire Hall Step Lists For April 2015

4/30/2015

Dances Covered

Beginner: Foxtrot
Intermediate: Rumba

Beginner: Foxtrot

Basic
Hesitation
Promenade
Promenade with underarm turn
Box Step
Twinkle
Parallel Twinkle

Intermediate: Rumba

Crossover and back breaks combination (review from last month)
Right hand loop
Open break with underarm turn
Peekaboo (from open break)
Cross Body Lead
Wraparound (from cross body lead)

Step List For April 2015

4/30/2015

Dances Covered:

Level 1: Unavailable
Level 2: Foxtrot
Level 3: Rumba
Level 4: Cha Cha
Level 5: West Coast Swing

Level 2: Foxtrot

Basic
Promenade
Promenade with underarm turn
Hesitation (aka "trouble step")
Side rocks
side rocks with underarm turn
box step

Level 3: Rumba

Crossover with underarm turn
Crossover with apart turn
3 crossovers, 3 apart turns
Cross body lead
Cross body lead to open break
Cross body lead to crossover
Open break to peekaboo (Optional: start from a cross body lead)
shadow crossovers and shadow back breaks (Optional: start from a cross body lead)
Underarm turn with Cuban walk
Backwrap with walk

Level 4: Cha Cha

Solo Steps: single and double taps, chase turn, double cross, guapacha, cuban breaks
Triple cha-cha
crossover and back break combination
alternating underarm turn
Paseo
cross body lead with ladies' turn
Shadow crossovers and shadow back breaks
Cuban breaks
Routine: 1) triple cha-cha, 2) alternating underarm turn, 3) cross body lead with ladies turn, 4) 3 shadow crossovers, 5) turn and loop to 3 shadow back breaks, 6) she turns/he turns/she turns
Turkish Towel

Level 5: West Coast Swing

Note: steps marked with an * were taught by Nate Evans

pop step with body roll*
right side pass with sailor step*
whip with man's foot drag*
extended whip (3-and-4-and-3-and-4)*
backwards whip with tick tock ending and half a sombrero*
Sugar push with styling*
Whip with inside turn and men's pickpocket to handshake, followed by twinkle, and ending with a tic toc to half a sombrero
Backwrap to double turn
Backwrap to Basket