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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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Step List For October 2017

11/3/2017

 

Dances Covered:

Level 1: Swing and Foxtrot
Level 2: East Coast Swing
Level 3: Cha Cha
Level 4: Slow Waltz
Level 5: Bolero

Level 1: Swing and Foxtrot

Swing-
  • Basic (single step)
  • Follower's underarm turn
  • Leader's underarm turn
Foxtrot-
  • Basic
  • Hesitation

Level 2: East Coast Swing

  • Tuck Turn
    • with a "stop sign" hand
    • with followers' free spin
    • with both leaders and followers turn (apart turn)
  • Charleston with tuck turn ending
  • Peekaboo
    • original (inside turn)
    • with leaders' hands on follower's back
    • with leaders' right hand only on followers' back (the cool way)

Level 3: Cha Cha

  • Crossover, back breaks, outside breaks (review)
  • Big box from outside breaks
  • Alternating underarm turn with man's loop to cross body lead and shadow crossover
  • Shadow crossover, turn and loop to shadow back breaks
  • Half moon (shadow crossover + cross body lead)
  • Triple progressive cha cha

Level 4: Slow Waltz

  • Twinkle with promenade chasse ("one, two-and-three")
  • Grapevine with apart turn (starts with a twinkle and check)
  • Chasse (the in-and-out move that starts with a twinkle with leader's turn)
  • Twinkle with inside turn to left turn
  • Zigzag with develope to inside turn ending
  • Butterfly, with leader's going across

Level 5: Bolero

  • Rope spin
  • Back spot turn with Rudolph Ronde
  • Half moon with quick turn
  • Right hand loop, with optional Cuban walk
  • Crossover with quick turn ("quick, quick, and-slow") to fencing line and right hand loop)
  • Three Threes (J-hook lead, followers' full spot turn to the left, back break and half spot turn to right, then "forward-and-forward-and side")

Step Lists For February 2016

2/29/2016

 
Dances Covered:
Level 1: East Coast Swing and Foxtrot
Level 2: Foxtrot
Level 3: Hustle
Level 4: Argentine Tango
Level 5: Samba

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Step List For September 2015

9/30/2015

 

​Dances Covered

Level 1: Foxtrot
Level 2: Cha Cha
Level 3: Slow Waltz
Level 4: East Coast Swing
Level 5: Salsa

Level 1: Foxtrot

Foxtrot
  • basic
  • hesitation (also called "trouble step")
  • promenade
  • routine: 2 basics,  3 promenades, 1 hesitation

Level 2: Cha Cha

  • Basic (with the cha-cha-cha going either to the side, or forward and back)
  • Full turn
  • Crossover with underarm turn
  • Back breaks with underarm turn
  • Butterfly
  • Double crossover

Level 3: Slow Waltz

  • Routine 1 (a review): 4 travel, 4 box
  • Routine 2 (a review): 6 zigzag, 1 box, box with underarm turn
  • Chasse with a box beginning and ending
  • Chasse with twinkle beginning and ending (where the guy goes under)
  • Balance Step
  • Hesitation

​Level 4: East Coast Swing

  • Charleston crossovers
  • Over-the-head and twist choreography
  • Windmill
  • Lindy rhythm
  • Double inside turn with Lindy rhythm
  • Chasse (from an inside turn)

Level 5: Salsa

  • 4 different shoulder checks:
  • Right handshake (the original)
  • Hands crossed, right on top (right hand loop)
  • Hands crossed, left on top (Titanic)
  • Both hands uncrossed (cuddle to backwrap)
  • Copa
  • Turkish Towel
  • "The Illusionist"
  • Lady's backwrap with hand flicks
  • Opposition with stop-and-go

Step List For August 2015

8/31/2015

 

​Dances Covered

Level 1: Hustle, Tango, and Merengue
Level 2: Slow Waltz
Level 3: East Coast Swing
Level 4: Salsa
Level 5: Hustle

Level 1: Hustle, Tango, Merengue

Hustle
  • Basic
  • Inside turn
  • pickpocket
Tango
  • Basic
  • Corte
  • Forward Rocks

Merengue
  • inside and outside turns
  • backwrap, with lasso
  • cuddle, with yo-yo
  • pickpocket
  • Routine: backwrap with lasso, pickpocket


​Level 2: Slow Waltz

  • Progressive basic (travelling basic)
  • Box step
  • Ladies' underarm turn from the box step
  • Zigzag
  • Twinkle, turning twinkle

Level 3: East Coast Swing

  • Charleston
  • Tuck turn (left hand only)
  • Double tuck turn (left hand then right hand shake)
  • Back breaks (rhythm change)
  • Tangle
  • Threading the needle
  • Routine: Tangle, followed by threading the needle
  • Hand change behind the back (2 ways)
  • Over the head (with or without twist choreography)

Level 4: Salsa

  • Routine 1: Alternating underarm turn, with loop and cross body lead, to shoulder check, canopy, and loop with cross body lead
  • Turkish Towel
  • Lasso
  • Backwrap with hand flicks

Level 5: Hustle

  • Sweetheart with three different endings (sombrero, cool hand slide, and sliding door)
  • J-hook to sweetheart
  • Butterfly to sweetheart
  • Diva walk
  • Syncopation in sweetheart
  • Disco hand and outside turn
  • Nate's pickpocket (uses right handshake)
  • Triple right side pass
  • Ladies' free spin with a left arm reflex

Berkshire Hall Step Lists For July 2015

7/31/2015

 

​Dances Covered

Beginner (Level 2): American Tango
​Intermediate (Level 3): East Coast Swing

​Beginner: American Tango

  • Basic
  • Corte
  • Promenade
  • Forward rock
  • Open Promenade
  • Open promenade with yo-yo
  • Promenade walks
  • Rock-and-corte

​Intermediate: East Coast Swing

  • Basic: single step and triple step
  • underarm turn, hand change behind the back, and backwalk (all in triple step)
  • Charleston
  • tuck turn
  • Double tuck turn (left hand, then right hand)
  • Back breaks
  • Peekaboo

Step Lists For July 2015

7/31/2015

 

​Dances Covered

Level 1: Rumba, Waltz, and Merengue
Level 2: East Coast Swing
Level 3: Salsa
Level 4: Hustle
Level 5: Foxtrot

​Level 1: Rumba, Waltz, and Merengue

Waltz
  • basic box step
  • basic traveling step

Rumba
  • box step
  • chasse (aka "side-together-side")
  • box step with underarm turn

Merengue
  • basic turns (inside and outside)
  • merengue in closed position (travel forward, side, in circles, etc)

Level 2: East Coast Swing


  • Basic: single step and triple step
  • ladies underarm turn
  • hand change behind the back
  • cuddle
  • backwalk

Level 3: Salsa

  • Cross body lead, cross body lead with leader's loop
  • canopy (ladies' loop)
  • alternating underarm turn
  • shoulder check
  • out of the way
  • Routine #1: alternating underarm turn, cross body lead, out of the way
  • Routine #2: shoulder check, canopy
  • Routine #3: alternating turns, mens' loop to cross body lead, basic, out of the way, shoulder check, canopy

​Level 4: Hustle

  • Cuddle
  • Right hand cuddle (aka "right hand loop")
  • sweetheart with either sombrero ending or cool and slide ending
  • parallel sweetheart (as opposed to a "sloppy" sweetheart)
  • pocket tuck to backwrap to cuddle
  • grapevine (technically grapevine to the right)
  • backwrap with guy's underarm turn
  • parallel sweetheart with ladies' turn
  • closed position basic
  • dip

​Level 5: Foxtrot

  • Fallaway twinkle
  • Double spin
  • Hover and impetus
  • Open right turn (with impetus)- taught in both Bronze styling and Silver continuity styling
  • Twinkle with Silver continuity styling
  • Open left turn with silver continuity styling

Berkshire Hall Step List For June 2015

6/27/2015

 

​Dances Covered

Beginner (Level 2): East Coast Swing
Intermediate (Level 3): Hustle

​Beginner: East Coast Swing

  • Basic step (single step)
  • Underarm turn
  • Pickpocket
  • Hand change behind the back (2 ways)
  • Cuddle
  • Backwalk
  • Charleston introduction
  • Windmill

​Intermediate: Hustle

  • New York style basic
  • Threading the needle
  • Pocket tuck to backwrap to cuddle
  • Sweetheart with 2 endings: sombrero ending and cool hand slide
  • Parallel sweetheart
  • Underarm sweetheart
  • Back wrap with guy's underarm turn
  • Tangle
  • Right hand loop
  • Closed position basic

Step Lists For May 2015

5/31/2015

 

Dances Covered

Level 1: Swing and Foxtrot
Level 2: Hustle
Level 3: Foxtrot
Level 4: Rumba
Level 5: Cha Cha

​Level 1: Swing and Foxtrot

East Coast Swing
  • basic step
  • underarm turn
  • pickpocket
Foxtrot
  • Basic
  • Promenade
  • Hesitation

​Level 2: Hustle

  • Compression basic (stays in place)
  • New York Style basic (guy does a tap step)
  • inside turn
  • pickpocket
  • cuddle
  • cuddle with yo-yo and free spin

Level 3: Foxtrot

  • Basic Routine: 3 basics, 3 promenade (with a turn on the second one), 3 side rocks, hesitation, 2 basics, box step
  • Twinkle
  • Parallel Twinkle
  • Chasse with box step beginning and ending
  • Chasse with twinkle beginning and ending
  • Quarter turn basic

​Level 4: Rumba

  • Open break to backwrap and walkaround to pattycake and shadow back break ending
  • Open break to peekaboo with inside turn ending
  • Cross body lead into wraparound
  • Paseo
  • Shadow crossovers and shadow back breaks

​Level 5: Cha Cha

  • Triple cha-chas with ronde
  • Natural Spin Turn (aka "Back Spot Turn")
  • Open break, threading the needle, to Turkish Towel, to cross body lead with ladies turn, to half moon, ending with arm wrap (aka "arm hook")
  • Hammerlock combination
  • Shadow crossovers, loop into shadow back breaks
  • Choreography: kick-ball-change, sailor steps, end with a spiral turn
  • Crossover swivels
  • Swivels from closed position

Step Lists For January 2015 (Berkshire Hall And Hartford Ballroom)

1/31/2015

 
This Month's Dances:
Level 1: East Coast Swing and Foxtrot
Level 2: West Coast Swing
Level 3: Slow Waltz
Level 4: Salsa
​Level 5: Foxtrot

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