- Hello darlings, today I am teaching you a complete
beginner contemporary dance, so if you have never -
once in your stinking life - stepped into a dance studio,
this dance is for you.
If you're someone who's like intermediate/advanced
you can also do this dance just make it
a little bit harder for yourself, or work on things like
musicality and artistry and movement texture;
and if you have no idea what I said that's
why you're in this video: complete, beginner, contemporary.
Alright dancers we're gonna start, with our hip-width.
I already messed up.
We're gonna start with our feet hip-width apart.
You're going to roll both of your shoulders back
your right arm is gonna cross your body
and you're gonna brush up as if painting a wall.
Brush...and down.
Let's try that again, seven eight, and you go
shoulder roll,
and brush.
From here you're gonna bend your knees
as your arms come over to the right-side
and you plié.
So you're creating kind of like a frame with your hands.
From this position my right arms goes through the middle
and it reaches high.
As my arm reaches high my right palm is facing forward
and my left hand is to my chest.
So from the front it looks like this. Boom.
Let's go from the tip-top.
Six, seven, and we go shoulder roll
and brush, and frame,
thread hand to chest.
From here dancers your arm gonna come down you're gonna
do a sway to the right, and a sway to the left side.
Now, your hands are gonna clasp but they're
gonna clasp below you, so down here.
Okay, and then you're gonna lift up and lift your chin.
Let me show you facing you
cause that was a smaller movement.
So you just did your sway to the right,
your sway to the left, your hands clasp below you,
and your head drops.
The reason your head drops is because as you lift
your own hands are lifting your chin up, okay?
So that goes clasp, and lift your chin.
Let's go from the top
and then we'll do that section with music.
So we're here.
Seven, and we go roll, and brush,
and plié frame,
and thread it through, arms drop, sway,
and sway, clasp,
plié,
lift your chin up.
(dramatic guitar music)
Alright dancers, so we have our chin lifted with
our arms.
Now, you're gonna keep your hands below your chin
and you're gonna do a pas de bourrée to the right.
Step right foot - left foot crosses behind,
then you step again on your right leg,
your hands are gonna release.
So let's bring that back, we come here,
hands under our chin, keep them there for right,
keep them there for left, release them on the
second right step.
Your hands are gonna come down to the floor.
Now, my palms are already here because
they're gonna start a roll, so I just tucked my left knee.
I went from this crouched lunge to a tuck on that knee.
Now, I'm gonna sit on my left butt cheek,
I'm going to unravel, right leg, left leg.
I'm now facing the back of the room, bring my knees together
they kiss together like a Little Mermaid position.
Then I'm gonna sit up on my knees like this.
My hands are on top of my legs.
Let's bring that back.
Hands are under our chin, we pas de bourrée, right,
left, drop your arms down.
Hold, tuck your knee, sit on your left butt cheek,
unravel your legs, mermaid, sit up on your knees,
hands in front of you.
Now, my right hand is going to reach to the right,
and then my left hand is going to reach to the left.
From there, both of my hands come forward,
I'm gonna tuck my toes, and I'm gonna push into
a chair position, and then I'm gonna stand upright.
So let's bring that back, from here chin up.
We go pas de bourrée,
tuck, and sit,
unravel,
mermaid, and hold.
Reach right, reach left, palms reach forward,
tuck your toes, chair, stand.
(dramatic guitar music plays)
Here we go.
Alright dancers, so you came up from your chair
and you lifted.
You're gonna step on your left foot in a plié or a bend.
Left arm reaches up, and you melt into that.
So you have this kind of shelf with that left arm.
You're going step, reach.
Very quickly you're going to come upright,
right hand goes to your chest,
left hand goes to your ribcage.
So it looks like this.
And then they're going to go 'whoom,'
they're going to close, palms to fists, okay?
So we went - chair, rise,
step, melt,
quickly up,
chest, ribs, fist,
okay?
From your fist you're going to cross your right foot
over your left, and you're going to turn in a little swivel
to face your back, okay?
So you should have your back to the video right now.
Your left arm is gonna reach out and point
in that direction.
You're going to step across with your right foot,
step again with your left foot
to now completely face the side.
My back foot is in a demi pointe, straight leg extension.
I'm gonna brush my arms forward, and up,
they're gonna come to a prayer position
as I kind of release them over my shoulders.
As they continue to release you're now going to
face your front, plié or bend your front foot,
and you're gonna release that back leg, and step together.
Whoa, let's rewind that, okay?
So bring it back.
We did: chair, and stand up,
step left, melt,
quickly up, right hand to chest, left hand to ribs,
close fist, cross your right foot over your left foot,
swivel to face the back of the room, left arm points out,
cross right over, cross left with demi pointe tendu,
arms straight up, prayer, release them over your shoulder,
look to the front of the room, bend your front knee,
release your back leg, step into a parallel.
(dramatic guitar music plays)
I'm actually really dizzy doing that.
Good job dancers!
Seriously be so freaking proud of yourself for learning
a contemporary routine!
Um, if this is your very first time dancing:
if this is your second time dancing,
if this is your millionth time dancing!
Honestly, I'm really proud of you guys!
Um, let me know how you like that,
if you want more complete beginner stuff,
um, put your little thoughts in the comments below.
Um, the music is in the video description,
I always get questions about: "What song is this?"
It's in the video description!
Click on it, dance, have a good time,
I love you guys so much.
(cheerful music plays)