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Step Lists For Berkshire Hall October 2017

11/3/2017

 

Dances Covered:

Beginner: East Coast Swing
​Intermediate: Cha Cha

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Berkshire Hall Step Lists For September 2017

10/6/2017

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Dances Covered:

Beginner: Cha Cha
Intermediate: Slow Waltz

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Berkshire Hall Step List For August 2017

9/1/2017

 

Dances Covered:

Beginner: Slow Waltz
Intermediate: Bolero

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Berkshire Hall Step List For June 2017

8/15/2017

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Dances Covered:

Beginner: Argentine Tango
​Intermediate: West Coast Swing

Beginner Argentine Tango

Milonga:
  • Baldosa Box
  • Repeat 5+6
  • Repeat 3,4,5,+6
  • Traspie (rock step)
Argentine Tango:
  • Crusada
  • Forward Ocho

West Coast Swing

  • New Styling
    • tap step
    • kick 'n point
    • sailor step
  • Backwrap
  • Left side pass with a tuck turn
  • Whip
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Berkshire Hall Step Lists For April 2016

4/29/2016

 

Dances Covered:

Beginner: Fast Waltz
Intermediate: Salsa and Bachata

Beginner: Fast Waltz

aka "Country Waltz" or "Cross-step Waltz"
  • forward and back
  • side crosses
    • with ladies' outside turn
    • with ladies' inside turn
  • promenade
    • with outside turn
    • inside turn to sweetheart
    • sweetheart to skater and back again (turn on every 5th count)
  • open break to backwrap with lasso

​Intermediate: Salsa and Bachata

Salsa
  • Warm-up Routine: canopy, cross body lead, man's loop, cross body lead
  • Shoulder check
  • Willie Rios' move: canopy with stop-and-go, leader's go under and loop, shoulder check using followers' shoulder
  • Stop-and-go from man's turn and hand change on 5-6-7
  • Canopy with hand change behind back and ladies' free spin
Bachata
  • Follower's and Leader's outside and inside turns
  • cuddle
  • backwrap
  • rock step
  • hand change behind back

Berkshire Hall Step Lists For March 2016

3/31/2016

 
Dances Covered:
Beginner (Level 2): Salsa and Bachata
Intermediate (Level 3): Foxtrot

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Berkshire Hall Step Lists For February 2016

2/29/2016

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Dances Covered This Month:
Beginner (Level 2): Foxtrot
Intermediate (Level 3): Hustle

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Berkshire Hall Step Lists For January 2016

1/30/2016

 
Dances covered:
Beginner: Hustle
Intermediate: Argentine Tango

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Berkshire Hall Step Lists For December 2015

12/31/2015

 

Dances Covered:

Beginner (Level 2): Argentine Tango
​Intermediate (Level 3): Samba

​Beginner: Argentine Tango

Please note, there are 3 types of tango: Milonga, Argentine Tango, and Vals.  This month we mainly focused on Milonga, although I introduced something that was technically Argentine Tango.
Milonga:
  • Baldosa Box (6 steps)
  • Walking into, and out of Baldosa Box
  • Side together (repeat 5 and 6 as many times as you would like)
  • Traspie (rock steps, changes the rhythm to quick-quick-slow, can be done on any of the first 5 steps of the Baldosa Box)
Argentine Tango:
  • Forward ochos 
  • Leader's rock to forward ochos 
  • Bonus: Leader's parada (means "stop", where the leader "stops the ochos with his foot), to follower's pasada (means "go", where the follower initiates the next move by stepping over the leader's foot)

Intermediate: Samba

  • Routine: forward and back, side crosses, promenade, box step
  • counterpromenade
  • windmill (from counterpromenade)
  • international combination (promenade, bota fogo, voltas, spot turn voltas)

Berkshire Hall Step Lists For November 2015

11/30/2015

 

​Dances Covered: 

Beginner (Level 2): Samba
​Intermediate (Level 3): Rumba and Bolero

​Beginner: Samba

  • Basic forward and back
  • Basic side cross
  • Side cross with an underarm turn
  • Box step
  • promenade
  • Bota fogo
  • Bota fogo with leader's foot fake

​Intermediate: Rumba and Bolero

Rumba:
  • box step
  • crossover
  • open break
  • open break to backwrap and walkaround
  • Paseo
Bolero:
  • basic (make sure it rotates)
  • crossover
  • open break
  • open break to backwrap and walkaround
  • open break to copa
  • open break to triple fans and ronde with copa ending
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