Step List For October 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