Auti: 00:00 Hey, guys, it's Auti.
Today I'm going to be teaching you five different dance lifts that are pretty easy.
All you need is this tutorial and some muscles.
Matty: 00:09 You rang?
Auti: 00:15 Okay, so the first lift we're gonna teach you, I call it the split over.
Because that's what you do.
So, it looks like this.
Auti: 00:27 Yeah.
Now let's teach you how to do it.
Matty: 00:28 Aw, yes.
Auti: 00:30 Okay, so if you're the liftee, you just need to start with your back towards
your partner.
And if you're the lifter, [Matty 00:00:37], you want to tell them where the hands go?
Matty: 00:38 Yeah.
What you're gonna do is you're gonna take your left hand, you're gonna place it behind
your partner's left thigh like so.
Your right arm is gonna reach around, right at their waist.
And your head's gonna be kind of right at their hip.
Auti: 00:48 Hello.
Matty: 00:49 So you have something to hold onto.
Hello.
Auti: 00:51 My arm is wrapping around his shoulder for support.
You plié together.
Now Matty's gonna use his muscles to pull me up from my hamstring, and I'm also gonna
use my plié to push myself up and over his right shoulder.
So we'll go nice and slow.
Auti: 01:07 You bend together, jump, lean back, straighten those legs, and then you
bend together at the end so that it's nice and smooth.
Matty: 01:16 Nice and smooth.
Auti: 01:20 Okay, guys.
For lift number two, we're gonna be teaching you the drape.
Not to be confused with the grape.
So, we begin to the side and we will show you.
Ready six, seven, eight, and ...
Auti: 01:38 Okay, so, you want to start with your back facing your partner's front just
like this again.
It can be anywhere in your choreography, but this is how the lift starts.
As the liftee, my arm is gonna go around the lifter's shoulder.
Matty: 01:49 And then if you're lifting what you're gonna do is you're gonna bend down
and your right arm is gonna reach around your partner's waist and grab their back.
And then again, your left hand is gonna come behind on the hamstring of the left leg to
help flip it around.
Auti: 02:04 Beautiful.
Now I am gonna plié and when I jump, my legs are gonna be tucked in just like this.
And then at the end I'm draped over, my head is heavy, my shoulders are heavy.
Everything is heavy towards the floor over their shoulder.
Auti: 02:19 So let's try it again.
So arm around, hand around the waist, hand underneath the hamstring, plié, tuck.
Matty: 02:25 And flip.
Auti: 02:25 And heavy head.
All right, so now we're on number three.
This one I like to call the traveling basket, because you end in a basket.
Here's what it looks like.
Auti: 02:37 Plié and ... Ta-da.
Matty: 02:37 And back.
Auti: 02:48 Okay, so this lift is a lot for the liftee, because you're going through three
different positions.
You have your attitude, your pike, and your basket.
So that very first one is your beautiful attitude, the second one is your straight pike, and
the third one is your bent-in basket.
Auti: 03:03 So I start with my arm around my partner's shoulder for stability.
Matty: 03:08 And then as the lifter what you're gonna do is you're gonna take your arm and
reach behind your partner and grab their waist on the other side.
Auti: 03:13 Then we plié together and now what's gonna happen is I'm gonna push off
and I'm gonna straighten my right leg.
Now as I go through the pike I'm keeping everything squeezed.
And then for the basket, do you have any tips for that?
Matty: 03:27 Yes, so for the basket, to help your partner out because they've been using
their abs the whole time, they're gonna bring their legs in and their knees into their chest.
Grab behind the closest leg to you whether it's the right side or left side, to kind
of take some weight off of their abs and help them kind of get in a little bit.
Auti: 03:41 And hold them like a baby.
Matty: 03:41 And hold them like a basket.
Auti: 03:42 Okay, here we go.
So we plié and straighten then bend and straighten and basket.
Matty: 03:47 And done.
Auti: 03:47 Ta-da.
Auti: 03:52 We're on number four.
We're on number four.
Auti: 03:58 Okay, this one we're calling the développé, which means to develop.
And it's pretty simple.
So pick whichever leg you like the best as the liftee.
And let's show it.
And seven, eight, up.
Auti: 04:13 Okay, so for the développé, again it's a lot of work for the liftee ... Still
a lot of work for the lifter, but ...
Matty: 04:19 It's probably equal work.
Auti: 04:20 I'm working harder.
Auti: 04:22 Okay, so for me, I plié and on the way I'm developing that leg and I'm straightening
it out as much as I can.
Now you really have to trust your partner because all of your weight is going back on
them.
So you don't want to be like this.
You want to release your upper back, all the while keeping your tummy and your booty engaged
so that you're not just dead weight for them.
Okay?
Auti: 04:45 So we're here.
My arm goes around his shoulder.
Again, Matty?
Matty: 04:49 So this is very similar.
Your right arm's gonna go around the partner's waist, left hand's gonna come behind their
hamstring right there, and you're gonna plié together and then basically just drape them
over your shoulder.
Auti: 04:59 Ready, six, seven, eight.
Plié, straight.
You can move your arms, and then you can come back down in a soft dismount.
Auti: 05:09 All right.
We've made it to our fifth and final lift.
And this one is called the reach.
It's drama, it's, it's ...
Matty: 05:16 Emoting.
Auti: 05:17 It's emoting.
It's everything that we love in dance.
Auti: 05:20 Okay, here we go.
So plié and ... Yeah.
Auti: 05:28 Okay so for this one there's a lot of freedom with the arms and the legs.
But for me, I like to plié, lift my right leg up in a bent leg, right arm high, left
arm to the side.
And you take a breath.
And you come down.
You have to land in a plié or else you're gonna break your kneecaps, people.
Matty: 05:45 And for the lifter, what you're gonna do, you're basically just doing a dead
press over your head, yeah?
So what's gonna help you out with that, for both partners, before you start make sure
your hands are on the back of their waist kind of the small of their back so you have
a nice hold.
And you're both gonna plié together, and they're gonna really jump and you're gonna
press your arms as straight as you can.
Ideally you want to get them all the way straight.
Hold as long as you can then slowly, slowly bring them down, plié-ing as you come back
down.
Auti: 06:12 All right, you guys, that's it.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope that you enjoyed that tutorial.
And if you try any of the lifts, please comment below and let me know how they went.
I would love to see them.
Auti: 06:22 And ...
Matty: 06:23 And for the partners, make sure you're staying nice and strong, yeah?
Auti: 06:29 Keep your men in shape, ladies.
Thank you guys.
We'll see you next week.
Matty: 06:35 Oh, jeez.