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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For February 2016: Argentine Tango

3/24/2016

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  • Crusada
  • Forward Ochos
    • from a crusada
    • from a rock step
    • Ending with a Parada and foot flick
    • Leader's Footwork:
      • stay in place
      • step side to side
      • Left foot back together, side together
  • Back Ochos from side step:
    • with lady's boleo
    • to parada and passada
  • Walk to lady's back ochos (aka "harlem tango rhythm")
    • 1, 2, 3+, 4, 5, 6, 7+, 8
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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For January 2016: Samba

2/1/2016

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  • International Combination
    • Promenade with staying in place on 4, bota fogo for 4, volta first with one foot then with the other, spot turn voltas going one way and then going the other way
  • Open break to cuddle with roll-out and roll-in
  • Counterpromenade with windmill
  • Bota fogo with leader's foot fake
  • Open break to back spot turn
  • Shadow bota fogos
    • open break with J-hook and leader's foot fake
    • 5 bota fogos, starting with left foot
    • Volta with right foot, then volta with left foot
    • 3 bota fogos with ladies turning on 4th one
    • bota fogos, ending leader's foot fake and closing up
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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For December 2015: Rumba/Bolero

1/3/2016

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Rumba:
  • Box step with Cuban walk
  • Shadow crossovers (uses right handshake), turn and loop to shadow back break
  • Crossover with inside turn endings:
    • Right hand loop (inside turn with leader's right hand)
      • Optional: you can include Cuban walks in the right hand loop, between the loop and the final turn
    • She goes/he goes (inside turn with leader's left hand)
  • Half moon (one shadow crossover+one cross body lead), turn and loop to shadow back break (optional)
  • Half moon to arm hook, aida (rock-and-turn), fencing line (across-and-side), end with she goes/he goes
  • Open break to Copa*
  • Open break to triple fans, grapevine and ronde with a copa ending*
​*these moves do not require that you end with a fifth-position ending.  It's cleaner if you simply do a box step and slowly get back together

Bolero:
  • Shadow crossovers (uses right handshake), turn and loop to shadow back break
  • Crossover with inside turn endings:
    • Right hand loop (inside turn with leader's right hand)
      • Optional: you can include Cuban walks in the right hand loop, between the loop and the final turn
    • She goes/he goes (inside turn with leader's left hand)
  • Half moon (one shadow crossover+one cross body lead), turn and loop to shadow back break (optional)
  • Half moon to arm hook, aida (rock-and-turn), fencing line (across-and-side), end with she goes/he goes
  • Open break to Copa
  • Open break to triple fans, grapevine and ronde with a copa ending
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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For November 2015: Cha Cha

11/23/2015

 
  • Cross body lead to crossover, back breaks, and outside breaks
  • Cross body lead with right handshake to shadow crossover, shadow back breaks, and outside breaks
  • Cross body lead with ladies' turn
  • Shadow crossover (with right handshake), underarm turn with double hands crossed, men's loop into shadow back breaks
  • Crossover with Cuban breaks
  • Shoulder check from crossover
  • Paseo
  • Turkish Towel
  • Big Box step from outside breaks
  • Half moon

Level 4 (Full Bronze) For October 2015: Slow Waltz

10/4/2015

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box step (both to the left and to the right)
left 3/8 turn
right 3/8 turn
left turn,  travel step,  right turn,  travel step
double twinkle (aka "triple twinkle")
zigzag to shadow twinkles

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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For September 2015: East Coast Swing

9/15/2015

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  • Charleston crossovers
  • Over-the-head and twist choreography
  • Windmill
  • Lindy rhythm
  • Double inside turn with Lindy rhythm
  • Chasse (from an inside turn)
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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For August 2015: Salsa

8/12/2015

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  • 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


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Level 4 (Full Bronze) for July 2015: Hustle

7/9/2015

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  • 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
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Level 4 (Full Bronze) For June 2015: Foxtrot

6/9/2015

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  • Quarter turn basic
  • Grapevine (from quarter turn basic)
  • Twinkle- ends diagonal wall
  • Turning twinkle (also known as "1/4 turn twinkle")- ends diagonal center
  • Triple twinkle (we sometimes also call it "the double twinkle")
  • Left turn (also known as "Left 3/8 turn")
  • Basic pattern: twinkle, turning twinkle, left turn
  • Chasse with a twinkle beginning and ending
  • Promenade pivot: 3/4 quarter or full
  • Zigzag with develope, inside turn to left turn
  • Routine: quarter turn basic, grapevine, twinkle, turning twinkle, left turn, twinkle to chasse
  • Zigzag to shadow twinkles
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Full Bronze For May 2015: Rumba

5/8/2015

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  • 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
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Full Bronze For April 2015: Cha Cha

4/11/2015

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  • Solo Steps: single and double taps, chase turn, double cross, guapacha, cuban breaks
  • Triple cha-cha
  • crossover and back break combination
  • alternating underarm turn
  • Paseo
  • cross body lead with ladies' turn
  • Shadow crossovers and shadow back breaks
  • Cuban breaks
  • Routine: 1) triple cha-cha, 2) alternating underarm turn, 3) cross body lead with ladies turn, 4) 3 shadow crossovers, 5) turn and loop to 3 shadow back breaks, 6) she turns/he turns/she turns
  • Turkish Towel
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Full Bronze For March 2015: West Coast Swing

3/2/2015

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Last month's recap

  • Right side pass
  • left side pass with tuck turn
  • right side pass with hand change, left side pass with tuck turn and hand change
  • sugar push with loop
  • basket
  • whip
  • left side pass into backwrap


New steps this month:
  • Whip with inside turn
  • Whip with outside turn
  • Tick tock with leader's right hand (creates a roll-in/roll-out)
  • Tick tock with leader's left hand (creates half a wrap)
  • Left side pass with tuck turn into twinkles
  • Tuck turn to twinkle
  • Starter step
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Full Bronze For February 2015: Waltz

2/5/2015

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  • Left turn (3/8 turn)
  • Right turn (3/8 turn)
  • Twinkle
  • Turning Twinkle (Twinkle with 1/4 turn)
  • Parallel Twinkle
  • Butterfly ("dribble the ball")
  • 2-Way Underarm Turn
  • Double Twinkle
  • Shadow Twinkles
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Full Bronze For January 2014: Salsa

1/5/2015

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  • Tangle/untangle
  • Canopy
  • Shoulder Check
  • "Out of The Way"
  • Lasso
  • Turnstile
  • Routine #1: out of the way, shoulder check, canopy, lasso
  • Shine steps (side breaks, side and cross, shoe shine, in-out step, hook, bachata, braid/drunken sailor)
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Full Bronze For December 2014: Foxtrot

12/30/2014

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  • 1/4 turn Basic
  • Grapevine From 1/4 Turn Basic
  • Left Turn
  • Twinkle, Twinkle With 1/4 Turn
  • Zigzag, Zigzag With Develope
  • Chasse With Twinkle Beginning and Ending

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Full Bronze For November 2014: East Coast Swing And Charleston

12/30/2014

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  • Basic Charleston
  • Toe-Heel Swivel
  • Inside Turn With Chasse (the skippy one)
  • Overturn With Swivels 
  • Double Inside Turn (changes rhythm slightly)
  • Charleston Crossover
  • Kicks While Turning Right


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Full Bronze For October 2014: Bolero

12/30/2014

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  • 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)

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Full Bronze For September 2014: Samba

12/30/2014

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  • International Combination: promenade, bota fogo, voltas, spot turn voltas
  • Counterpromenade
  • Windmill from counterpromenade
  • Bota fogo promenade/counterpromenade
  • Bota fogo promenade/counterpromenade with leader's foot fake
  • Open Break with underarm turn
  • Roll Off The Arm (from open break into cuddle)
  • Maypole
  • Bota Fogo in place

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Full Bronze Level August 2014: American Tango

12/30/2014

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  • Open Left Turn
  • Right Side Fans
  • Turning Rocks
  • Rock-And-Corte
  • Promenade With 3/4 Pivot
  • Closed Promenade With Challenge Line, Oversway, And Spanish Drag
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