- Hey guys it's Auti again!
Obviously you are on my channel,
I don't know why I said that.
We are back with another vlog this week.
You guys seemed to really like
that contemporary dance that I taught you,
so I'm gonna be teaching you another one today.
It's another beginner routine,
so just get some space to dance and let's move!
Okay, so you're gonna be starting
in a nice parallel position.
Your belly button is forward.
You lift your right leg up to the passé,
you step onto it, shift your weight to that new foot,
and plié, and slightly melt forward.
So standing, you go passé, step, shift, melt.
From here, you take a big breath up
and open your arms to an open-palmed T.
And then, when you come back together,
your hands go like what I call a fish.
It's like a little fish going around.
Huh, Lolo!
Alright, let's start over from the top.
So we stand parallel.
Six, seven, and passé,
step, shift, plié,
open, fish.
And, we're gonna do another...
Hey!
That wasn't very nice.
Okay, so you're now in your fish and you're gonna do
what is called a catch step because one of your
legs is catching up to the other.
So from here, you bring your left into
your right and step back out.
So it looks like this.
Now, as you do that, your fish comes into
your chest and out.
So we go...
from here, my hands are gonna shift and
pull in to my chin and I'm gonna rest on my palms.
So, let me show you that one more time.
From your fish, into your chest, out.
Flip your palms, pull, and rest.
From here, this right hand is gonna swing under,
point up to the sky, you're gonna flip your palms,
and you're gonna brush the air, because
that's what what you're doing.
From here, you brush the air really softly.
And as your palm goes down, your eyes go down too.
So lets go from the top, with music.
(soft dance music)
And...
open!
Fish, catch!
Reach!
Down.
Yeah! Try that a couple times you guys.
Alright, so we just brushed the air.
We're here, our eyes are looking down.
You're gonna take two steps to the left to
turn over your left shoulder and now face the back.
One, two.
I continue the left shoulder turn, and my right hand
goes to my left shoulder that's kind of dipped, and
I'm looking back.
From here,my left shoulder is gonna roll forward and
I go into a rounded back.
Then I reach left, reach right, then I
come up, I step on my right foot and I pivot
back over the left shoulder to create a box right where
your diaphragm is here.
And then it crinkles in and it shuts.
Let me show you that again, because that was
kind of a lot of direction changes.
So we brush, left shoulder one, two, arch
left shoulder rolls, we reach left,
We weach - we weach?
We weach wight
We reach right, we come up, we step,
pivot, box, and sync.
Okay?
So, lets put part one and part two together, and
then we'll then we'll finish off this bit.
(soft dance music)
Alright, stand tall.
Step over
open,
fish, catch,
reach,
turn
shoulder
sync, pull.
Yeah! Try that again.
Okay friends, so we're now on the third part of the dance.
We have a little box at our diaphragm and
we closed it in.
I'm gonna show you this on the diagonal,
just so that you can see 'cause it
kind of faces the back.
Um, just know that it's truly facing forward.
So from here, you're gonna reach back with
your right palm, 'cause that's what's gonna catch you.
Your gonna bend your knees and hinge to put your hand down.
Your knees then go down.
Your palms hit the floor very gently,
and you place your head on your hands.
So, I'll show you that from the front.
Um, this part has a lot of floor work, so
make sure that you rewind and watch it a couple times
just to make sure you get the emphasis and the movement.
So, we go box, and melt.
Hinge,
knees,
palms,
and down.
From here, I'm tucking my left hand through
my right, its like a little bridge.
A bridge for your arm, and its going under.
And I'm gonna roll around
to lay down.
(laughs)
And then, I'll show you the next part.
We have to do kind of a close up of it so you
know what the heck is happening.
Hi guys, from here your arms are out, your palms are
supporting you because you're gonna roll on
top of your shoulder, slightly.
You push up with both feet,
your left leg bends to catch you.
Try that a couple times, just getting this motion in
so that you get comfortable with
rolling over your shoulder.
Um, and I kind of wave, because it
has a wave motion with your body.
You don't wanna crunch your head
'cause you don't wanna hurt your neck.
Its a very gentle roll over your shoulders,
both legs go up, your left leg bends immediately
so that you can land softly on the ball of your foot.
You don't wanna land, if this is your foot, on
a flat foot like that, its really gonna hurt.
You wanna go toe, ball, heel all the way down
so that its a nice soft landing.
Then I'll show you, show you again.
So were here, palms on chest,
roll,
down.
And then from here you're gonna tuck it in,
knees go to the right, and you roll on
to your stomach and then your right hand reaches
straight in front of you, mkay?
Lets rewind all of that from the front.
Alright so we went from box to close,
to your palm, knees,
leg.
We slice, roll, palms,
wave,
and tuck.
Roll on to your stomach with your right hand.
One more part from here, guys.
You keep rolling on to your left side, but
you sit up slightly,
both feet come down.
Right hand comes down, I push up off of
my feet and I reach out.
Now, if you are like, "excuse me, I don't know
how to back bend", that's okay.
You can moderate it
or, not moder
you can modify it.
And just do something like this, or
even even like a little baby back.
That's okay
In preference.
Or, if you wanna full arch it,
that would be lovely too.
So, try your own look, friends.
Alright, so your now in whatever backbend you chose.
I want you to come down very softly onto your booty,
Your knees are tucked to the side.
You're gonna go back to both feet being planted.
And your gonna stand up with a nice pointed toe.
From here, I'm gonna step backward, left, right.
My left foot is gonna step out to the side.
My right foot is going to passé over,
and then I cross in front in a nice plié.
I step on to my left foot,
reach my left arm out, and then I
close it into my chest, and then I lift my chin.
Phew, that was a lot of steps.
Lets go back, so we're on the floor.
Ow, don't land like that, land softer.
We go arch,
we come down,
we go back, we stand up with a pointed toe.
We step one, two,
side passé,
plié.
Step,
chest,
chin.
Hallelujah!
You made it to the end, go back,
get part one, part two, part three.
Now were gonna smoosh it all together and
we're gonna do it with music, okay?
Try it as many times as you like,
modify any movement that you like, to
make it more comfortable for your body.
Um, you want it to be challenging but not painful, okay?
That's a life lesson, alright?
Uh, lets try it from the top.
(soft dance music)
Alright, here we go.
Take a deep breath,
And...
Woo! Alright good job, guys!
Thank you so much you guys for joining me
for our second contemporary dance routine.
These are really fun to film for you guys.
And, the song will be in the video description if
you want to download it.
Um, happy dancing, send me videos of you guys
doing this routine, I've gotten a couple
really cool messages on Instagram of
people trying and posting it on their stories
and what not, its so fun to see.
Love you guys, thanks for dancing with me
and I will see you next week!
(blows kiss)
Say bye, Lolo!
(laughs)
- What did you do to your bed, buddy?