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>> Nicole: Hi, welcome to Dance Papi. I'm Nicole Lazo. This my husband Oscar Lazo, and
we're going to show you how to dance on1 today. We're doing our salsa basic step. So we're going
to do the ladies timing first. It's going to look like this. Ladies, we're going to
start back with our right foot. It's going to be back with the right, replace the left,
step forward with the right, and then the left foot goes forward, forward, replace the
right then step back. Let's do it again. So we're going to go back, replace, forward,
and then forward, replace, back. One more time, back, replace, forward, and forward,
replace, back. Okay, so for the guys, you're going step forward
with your left foot first. So it's going to be forward with the left, replace the right,
then step back, then the right foot goes back, replace the left, then step forward. So we're
going to go forward, replace back right foot, back replace forward. One more time forward,
replace back, and back replace forward. Good, so the timing. The woman always starts
back on the count of one, and the man always starts forward on the count of one. Okay so
left foot for the guy, right foot for the girl. As he steps forward, we're going to
step back ladies. So it's going to be one, two, three. We're going to pause for four.
Then we're going to step and it's going to be five, six, seven, hold for eight. We're
going to step on the one, one, two, three, hold four, five, six, seven, hold eight.
So we're both pausing on the four and the eight. When you connect with a partner, leaders you're
going to take your right arm and put it on the ladies shoulder blade, right on her back.
Ladies we're going to have our arm on top of theirs, thumb in front, fingers behind.
This is going to be our main connection, and we're going to connect with the opposite hand
as well. So leaders are going forward with the left foot. Ladies are going back with
the right foot. And the count goes like this one, two, three,
hold four, five, six, seven, hold eight, one, two, three, five, six, seven.
One, two, three, and five, six, seven.
Last time one, two, three, and five, six, seven.
Okay now we're going to talk about music. When you dance to music we need to find the timing.
The leader's in charge of the timing. The ladies we're following. So guys you need
to be able to count the timing. There's eight beats to the music just like I said. And the
reason why we start on the one is because it's the loudest beat.
So it goes like this: one, two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six, seven.
So the one is the loudest beat and the five is the second loudest beat.
The one as the guy comes forward and they just go back. That's the beginning of our basic.
And the second half of the basic is on the five.
So we're going to try it with music together with a partner. Five, six, seven. One, two
three, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six, seven. One, five, one.
So ladies make sure always let the guy do the timing. You're not going to just start dancing whenever
you want. So if we just connected as a partner, as a
couple, I'm going to wait for him to step forward and then we'll start. Okay so there's
your timing again, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six, seven. One, five.
One, two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, three. As you're dancing, you want to lean into your
partner so that you can feel the lead and follow. If you're standing straight up or
pulling back from them, you're not going to feel it as well.
So we're leaning in - the weight is over our toes for both men and women. And then I can
feel him leading me, and he can feel me ready for the follow. One, five, one, two, three,
five, six, seven, one, two, three, five, six, seven.
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