Ballroom Improver 6

November 14, 2007

Big class – bigger than ever for reasons unknown to me. I quite enjoyed it or at least had the dances I enjoyed the most this term.

Cha Cha

The only new thing was a faster paced New Yorker.

2 L feet to R New York keep weight off it
3 L back to normal
4 R feet to L New York keep weight off it
5 R back to normal
6 L feet to R New York keep weight off it
7 L back to normal and lead follower to a stationary clockwise turn

Although I suppose a true Cross Body Lead could be considered new-ish too.

Samba

Whisk and Government Walk was revisited. A modification was that the timing for Government walk is not quite syncopated as Whisk is.

New move was something called Volta.

From the end of Whisk (L crossed behind R)

L forward and exchange places with follower (follower turns 1/2 clockwise while leader turns 1/2 counterclockwise – leader is behind follower during this exchange) and chassis twice with R behind L
R forward and exchange places with follower (follower turns 1/2 counterclockwise while leader turns 1/2 clockwise – leader is behind follower during this exchange) and chassis three times with L behind R

followed by another Whisk

Waltz

The same old move from last few weeks was covered again before something new was added.

R forw, L forw and turn clockwise, R together
L back, R together and turn, L forw (but lift the follower – not quite sure what is meant by lift)
…
the same old move would be promenade with R forw across L
the new move involves R crossed behind L, L to side, then R together – I’m not quite sure what I’m trying to get follower to do here…

Possibly what needs to be done is that instead of going into promenade position with L forw (second line), end face-to-face?

No wonder why I liked this class. No Quickstep. No Jive. No Ballroom Tango.