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Berkshire Hall Intermediate (Level 3) For February 2016: Hustle

3/24/2016

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  • Parallel sweetheart
    • with sombrero ending
    • with cool hand slide ending
  • old-fashioned/standard basic (continually turns right)
  • old-fashioned basic to double turn into cuddle
  • right hand cuddle
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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 Intermediate (Level 3) For January 2016: Argentine Tango

2/1/2016

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  • Crusada (Argentine Tango basic)
  • Forward ochos, starting either from rock step or from end of crusada
    • optional parada and pasada
  • Side step with foot change to back ochos
  • Forward ochos to back ochos, end by changing to forward ochos
  • Back ochos to skaters
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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 Intermediate (Level 3) For December 2015: Samba

1/3/2016

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  • Routine: forward and back, side crosses, promenade, box step
  • counterpromenade
  • windmill (from counterpromenade)
  • international combination (promenade, bota fogo, voltas, spot turn voltas)
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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 3 (Intermediate) For November 2015: Rumba And Bolero

11/23/2015

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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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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 Intermediate (Level 3) For September 2015: Slow Waltz

9/15/2015

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  • Left turn
  • Twinkle, Twinkle with 1/4 turn (aka "turning twinkle")
  • Basic routine: Twinkle, Turning Twinkle, left turn
  • Zigzag with develope
  • 2-way underarm turn (review)
  • Chasse, with either box step beginning or ending, or twinkle beginning or ending
  • Grapevine with apart turn
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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 Intermediate For August 2015: Tango

8/12/2015

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  • Open left turn (starts diagonal center)
  • Rock-and-corte (starts diagonal center)
  • Turning rocks (starts in line of dance with 2 slows)
  • Promenade
  • Promenade with ochos (aka "fans")
  • Damian and Janice's ocho and skater routine
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Berkshire Hall Intermediate for July 2015: East Coast Swing

7/9/2015

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  • 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
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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 Intermediate for June 2015: Hustle

7/9/2015

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  • 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
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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 Level 3 (Intermediate) For June 2015: Hustle

6/9/2015

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  • New York style basic
  • Threading the needle
  • Underarm sweetheart
  • Sweetheart ending #1: sombrero ending
  • Sweetheart ending #2: cool hand slide
  • Right hand loop
  • Tangle
  • Backwrap with guy's turn
  • Pock tuck to backwrap to cuddle
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Berkshire Hall Level 2 (Ballroom Basics) For June 2015: East Coast Swing

6/9/2015

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  • Basic (single step)
  • Basic (triple step)- introduction
  • Underarm turn
  • Pickpocket
  • Back walk
  • Hand change behind the back
  • Windmill
  • Charleston
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Berkshire Hall Intermediate For May 2015: Foxtrot

5/8/2015

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  • Quarter turn basic
  • grapevine from quarter turn basic
  • butterfly
  • grapevine with apart turn
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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 Intermediate For April 2015: Rumba

4/11/2015

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  • Crossover and back breaks combination (review from last month)
  • Right hand loop
  • Open break with underarm turn
  • Peekaboo (from open break)
  • Cross Body Lead
  • Wraparound (from cross body lead)
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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 Intermediate Class For February 2015: Cha Cha

2/5/2015

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  • Basic step (with either side cha-cha-cha or progressive cha-cha-cha)
  • solo full turn
  • ladies underarm turn
  • cross body lead
  • crossover
  • crossover and back break combination
  • shadow crossovers and shadow back breaks
  • Alternating underarm turn
  • Double crossover

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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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