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Berkshire Hall Beginner (Level 2) For February 2016: Foxtrot

3/24/2016

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  • Basic
  • Hesitation
  • Promenade
  • Promenade with turn
  • side rocks
  • box step
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Berkshire Hall Beginner (Level 2) For January 2016: Hustle

2/1/2016

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  • Compression basic (holding two hands)
  • New York style basic (she goes out then in)
  • Inside turn
  • Cuddle with inside turn ending
  • Cuddle with yo-yo ending
  • Grapevine to the right
  • Pickpocket
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Berkshire Hall Beginners (Level 2) For December 2015: Argentine Tango

1/3/2016

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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)
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Berkshire Hall Level 2 (Basics) For November 2015: Samba

11/23/2015

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  • 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
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Berkshire Hall Beginner (Level 2) For September 2015: Cha Cha

9/15/2015

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  • Basic (cha-cha-cha either progressive or side)
  • Full turn
  • Half turn (chase turn)
  • Crossover with underarm turn
  • Back breaks with underarm turn
  • Outside breaks with underarm turn
  • Open break with underarm turn
  • Butterfly
  • Double crossover
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Berkshire Hall Beginner For August 2015: Slow Waltz

8/12/2015

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  • Travelling basic
  • Box step (turn a 1/4 turn each measure)
  • Box step with ladies' underarm turn
  • Zigzag
  • Twinkle
  • Parallel twinkle
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Berkshire Hall Beginner for July 2015: American Tango

7/9/2015

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  • Basic
  • Corte
  • Promenade
  • Forward rock
  • Open Promenade
  • Open promenade with yo-yo
  • Promenade walks
  • Rock-and-corte
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Berkshire Hall Beginner for June 2015: East Coast Swing

7/9/2015

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  • Basic step (single step)
  • Underarm turn
  • Pickpocket
  • Hand change behind the back (2 ways)
  • Cuddle
  • Backwalk
  • Charleston introduction
  • Windmill
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Berkshire Hall Beginner For May 2015: Hustle

5/8/2015

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  • Hustle basic (a.k.a. the compression basic)
  • inside turn
  • pickpocket
  • cuddle
  • cuddle with yo-yo
  • introduction to New York Style basic
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Berkshire Hall Beginner For April 2015: Foxtrot

4/11/2015

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  • Basic
  • Hesitation
  • Promenade
  • Promenade with underarm turn
  • Box Step
  • Twinkle
  • Parallel Twinkle
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Berkshire Hall Beginner For March 2015: Rumba

4/2/2015

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  • Basic box step
  • side-together-side (might also be called chasse or bachata)
  • Box step with underarm turn
  • extended Underarm turn with Cuban walk
  • crossover with underarm turn*
  • crossover and back breaks*
  • Crossover, back breaks, and outside breaks*
  • crossover with apart turn*



* these moves use the beginning and fifth position ending:

beginning:  half of a box, side-together-side
ending: fith-position break, finish the box

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Berkshire Hall Beginner Class For February 2015: Salsa

2/5/2015

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  • basic step
  • underarm turn (guys can do a side break during the turn for additional styling)
  • solo full turns
  • side breaks
  • cross body lead
  • underarm turn with a right handshake
  • Combination: underarm turn with right handshake, cross body lead, loop over man's head
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Absolute Beginner For January 2015: East Coast Swing (Berkshire Hall and Hartford Ballroom)

1/20/2015

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  • Basic (technically basic "single step")
  • underarm turn
  • pickpocket
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