Anna Kovalova Cha Cha Workshop
part 2 | Dance Today
taking a step into the lockstep we have to prepare our upper body so first thing what i would like
you to do is prepare your upper body so it means your shoulder lead your foot into the lobster yes
so the first one we have to create is our upper body slight rotation yes uh if you're standing
on your left foot it means you have to get hands um no no no no so you are going to
start the lock step with our left foot back yes to open kind of the door for our leg we're not
going to take a step only yes we open the door for our leg first with our upper body and then
we're taking this step back yes so i'd like to you right now create this rotation prior this step and
two and three and now again and upper body four and one and then upper right two and three upper
body four and one upper body shoulder length and three upper body four and one very good
go away yes the upper body rotation i would like to see that it's happened on down and prior to
step otherwise it can look quite flat yes or if we've taken the step together with the shoulder
we also will look not 3d in the weight yes so the upper body always works on calm and and then
food is following two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one great job
ladies very nice yes and one more thing we always during the lobster forward and once the backward
we always keep our connection to the from like from our foot to the floor right so we always we
never have a performance where we're picking up our feet from the floor even when we do the
long step forward we're not doing that yes we're sliding kind of like um driving the foot in um now
when we're taking the step a long step backward same thing we are not picking up the foot and to
replace yes i want you to feel like your front leg is almost like 200 pounds and it's so hard
and heavy for you to collect you're collecting it from the center yes it's number one so your center
kind of like taking your foot in yes and that's what help you for this slide yes it's not just
the foot replace yeah and that's what regardless that's regarding the front the back foot to avoid
this situation yes because we're all dancing in the skirts yes we have to like really keep our my
muscles together so to me our feet are always shows the direction i feel like it's not only
our food position rotation project our knee direction right so if we are doing and i'm
not against uh turnout foot position i like the turnout foot position but the first step
and the lock step it's not turned out because if you will turn out your foot you most likely
well you can close your inner thighs but it's much harder yes so your back foot when you're
moving your back uh when you move your leg backward
you have to keep the parallel position as much as possible so that will direct your back knee
in the closing position and you will feel that your inner thighs more engaged and then here you
can take a step so i like to turn out position but not in the lock step backward yes so when
you have a flop step back your hip is not in rotation it's going up first of all so we use
a pendulum action right away instead of rotation because it will do a rotation to turn out our foot
as well and again it will look more flat than vd yeah so from here our hip is going up our foot
is slightly parallel and i want i would like you to keep some weight on the back foot and now from
here from the center you collect your foot and you create third step that's right yes yes let's come
closer and we're going to practice this three long steps back yes by the rotation that's right now
move your foot parallel yes do not turn out that's the first step collect your foot drag your foot in
into the checking position and step back one and again two and three upper body and four
and one upper body two and three and four and one and two and three and upper body four
and one yes very good composer every time i come i say count and that's the sign for you
to turn to prepare your other body right let's try it one more time hello hello nice to see you
later where are you doing the lobster's back okay yeah so come and prepare your upper body first
and two and three and upper body four and one and two and
three and four and one and two and three very good four and one points yes and
four and one and two and four the foot four and over the foot check two three upper body and
two before the foot and four and one and two and three very good yes let's try one more time
so quick reminder yes locks the four right first step is a step 50 50 i would say 40 60.
yes you control your weight between two legs by the position parallel checking position and now
your spine over the foot because that's the walking action and again step lock
over the foot step low over the foot now check two three long step backwards upper body first
open the door in the room for your foot and put the spiral we're gonna turn turn it out
of our foot locking action through the center and step back again upper body and
and four and one there you go okay now you're gonna show me the lock step forward
checking action and locks the back we're starting with the right foot
four and one and two and three and four and one check two three upper body four and one and two
and three and four and one two three good job great job very nice okay we move on you