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This is the only video I can find that shows the footwork details I am trying to learn. Thank you for lifting the pants hems so we can see the lady's footwork.
Hi. I enjoy your videos, which are a great help. I'm an experienced competition dance. I do hover cross on foxtrot, and I'd like to add in a developee, but I can't find any videos to show this. In the same foot lunge you show, the lady steps forward onto her left foot, freeing up her right leg, the outside leg to do the developee action. Would rhe hover cross/ developee technique be the same? I don't want to spend a lot of time practising something incorrectly. I've done enough of that !😢
I have a question... I am medium advance in ballroom but my partner is a beginner and he have difficult with you know the sign in hand for driving me. It's like I don't know what he wants I spoke with him but he toldme he don't know it so I search tutorial about that
That just blew my socks off... Brilliant, fantastic, strong, pure story telling and in places it reminds me of a Argentine Tango.. Perfection.. Yep I loved this, Jonathan and Talysa you are the best ❤x❤x
Toes pointed. legs extended., head up straight and off to the left or right but never looking forward. Timing must be perfect to the music. WHO MAKES UP THESE RULES FOR AWARD WINNING POINT? BEAUTIFUL WORK!
I agree. Competitions are mostly about perfect frame, technique and timing. Your comment about timing is a particularly relevant point. Irving Berlin has been quoted as saying that he loved to write for Fred astaire because his (astaires) phrasing was perfect he didn't sing perfectly " om the beat" he sang perfectly to the music and the feeling in the music. Ella Fitzgerald and others sang the . same way. But don't try this in a competition. The judges aren't looking for it, they may have a different sense of feeling from any particular piece of music and worse, they may think you're dancing off time
I think if you're good enough to do this, you could work out a rhythm for the figure. If the lady can extend more you could take an extra bar, but make sure there is something moving all the time and you can exit smoothly into you following figure.
Yes this is curved feather to outside spin to curved feather to topspin qqqq, to weave ending qqqq, like same weave ending ( last 4 steps) from bounce fallway.
I notice that all these pro dancers step on a very late count of 4 (like 4 and a half, almost 5), even when they are not accenting or hovering on count 3
