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Step List For October 2014

10/31/2014

 

Dances Covered:

Level 1: Cha Cha, Foxtrot, and Merengue
Level 2: Foxtrot
Level 3: East Coast Swing
Level 4: Bolero
​Level 5: Samba

​Level 1: Cha Cha, Foxtrot, and Merengue

Cha Cha
  • Basic Step
  • Full Turn
  • Ladies' underarm turn
Foxtrot
  • basic
  • hesitation

​​Merengue
  • basic turns: outside and inside
  • how to do more than one turn
  • leader's turn

​Level 2: Foxtrot

  • Basic step
  • Hesitation (a.k.a. corner or trouble step)
  • Promenade
  • Promenade with underarm turn
  • Side Rocks
  • Routine #1: 3 basics (steer to the wall), 3 promenade with an underarm turn on the second one, hesitation to finish
  • Routine #2: 3 basics (steer to the wall), 3 side rocks, hesitation to finish 
  • Box Step 

Level 3: East Coast Swing

Note: steps were done both in triple step and single step
  • Underarm turn
  • She goes/he goes
  • Hand change behind the back
  • Hand change behind the back with ladies underarm turn
  • Open break to cuddle
  • Cuddle with yo-yo ending
  • Single tuck
  • Double tuck
  • Over the head
  • Back walk
  • Back breaks
  • Promenade Walk, a.k.a. "Promenade Swivels" (works well if followed by back walk) 
  • Peekaboo
  • Windmill (new as of Sunday 10/26)

Level 4: Bolero

  • Shadow crossovers and shadow back breaks with loop
  • Copa
  • Triple ronde into copa
  • She goes/He goes ending
  • Right hand loop ending
  • 1 crossover, apart turn, 1 back break, underarm turn, 1 outside break, right hand loop ending
  • Half moon (crossover with the right hand, bring her across), arm hook, rock and fencing line, she goes/he goes ending
  • Rudolph Ronde (starts with open break and back spot turn, ends with copa)

​Level 5: Samba

  • Forward rock, spiral turn into counterpromenade, bota fogo, bota fogo in place, maypole
  • Bota fogo into "easy" grapevine, ending with spot turn voltas
  • Bota fogo into "difficult" grapevine
  • Left turn into bota fogo (with guys going backwards), into ladies swivels

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