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Absolute Beginner For March 2015: Rumba

4/2/2015

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  • Box step
  • side-together-side (a.k.a. chasse)
  • Box step with underarm turn
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Berkshire Hall Intermediate For March 2015: Salsa

4/2/2015

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  • underarm turn with handshake (review from last month)
  • canopy (review from last month)
  • Cross body lead
  • shoulder check
  • Cross body lead with underarm turn
  • Titanic (shoulder check with hands crossed, left hand on top)
  • Shoulder check to cuddle and backwrap
  • Cross body lead to tangle
  • Guy's out of the way
  • combo: tangle, out of the way, cuddle and bakwrap
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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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Level 1 (Absolute Beginner) for 2015: Waltz

3/12/2015

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  • basic box step
  • basic traveling step
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Basic For March 2015: Rumba

3/12/2015

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  • Box step
  • Box step with underarm turn
  • side-together-side
  • crossover with underarm turn and fifth position ending
  • Crossover, underarm turn to back breaks, underarm turn to fifth position ending
  • Box step underarm turn with Cuban Walk
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Pre-Silver For March 2015: Waltz

3/2/2015

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  • Left turn (Bronze styling)
  • Advanced Right Turn with Bronze styling (involves a twinkle start, open right turn, impetus/heel turn, and twinkle close)
  • Butterfly with men's turn
  • Waltz Combination: twinkle start, leader's turn, chasse with inside turn, grapevine with apart turn, grapevine to cuddle, chasse with inside turn, twinkle finish
  • Whisk (the crazy new one with the ladies leg flick)
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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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Intermediate For March 2015: Cha Cha

3/2/2015

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  • Alternating Underarm Turn
  • Crossovers with underarm turn
  • Crossovers with apart turn
  • Double Crossover
  • Back breaks
  • Outside breaks
  • Combination: crossover, turn, back breaks, turn, outside breaks, turn to finish
  • Cross body lead
  • Cross body lead to either open break or crossover
  • Open break
  • Open break to peekaboo
  • Open break to sweetheart
  • Open break to underarm sweetheart
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