- Hi!
You guys, I just love you.
Sometime I'm gonna make a video just professing my love
for each and every one of your beautiful faces.
But for today, we'll do some jazz moves.
I'm a huge fan of doing this Bray,
I love when he puts little text bubbles there.
I'm gonna start going like this and see if he can keep up.
Okay?
- [Brayden] Okay, I'm ready.
(gasps)
- You guys, today we're gonna do our basic jazz moves.
I have a video up that's kind of similar to this,
but I'm gonna go more in depth and we're gonna learn
some new stuff today, so get some room,
get some jazz and let's do this.
We're gonna start with jazz walks.
Jazz walks.
Your jazz walks cross in front of each other.
That's a v importante tip to understand,
'cause a lot of times some friends cross behind
themselves and they look like this clear across the floor.
So mosey on back, cross in front friends.
Let's start with our hands on our hips,
you're gonna step out with your right foot.
Have a nice bend in your knee,
step in front with your left foot.
Now, wow, already got my one fall of the day over.
You're a little bit up on your releve.
So up on that demi pointe, you don't wanna do
a flat footed walk, okay?
So out, plie, up, plie, out and across
and out and across.
You're gonna feel like a major dork
doing this by yourself, looking at yourself in the mirror,
I feel like a dweeb right now, but that is your jazz walk.
You don't wanna be so stationary and stiff,
it's gonna look awkward.
So you wanna have a little bit of movement in your hips,
a little bit in your shoulders, and bend those knees.
So starting with our right foot, stepping across
with our left, let's go across the floor.
Five, six, seven, and, step cross front
move your hips, and your shoulders across the floor.
Welcome to my knees.
Bring the people to my knees, Bray.
Look at these beauties.
(whistles)
you guys, we're doing ball changes,
and we brought you closer, 'cause you need to see
what my little feet are doing in my new
Adidas shoes but the way.
(whistles)
This is no sponsored by the way,
I jut really like them.
All right, anyways.
A ball change goes down, comes back up.
You're just changing where your weight is.
So I'm going front foot, back foot.
Front foot with a bend, back foot.
Front foot, back foot.
Now this guy that's lifted up in the air
is gonna step behind to go back foot, front foot.
Back foot, front foot.
Again, Plie, and up.
Welcome.
We're gonna go across the floor.
Wow, you guys, I went like this
right when the camera turned on,
you had to be here, it's fine.
We're gonna combine our ball changes with our jazz walks.
So you're gonna go jazz walk jazz walk,
ball change, ball change.
Jazz walk, jazz walk, ball change, ball change.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Step out cross front, front and back.
Step out cross front, ball change ball change.
Step out cross front, ball change, ball change.
Last time, out cross front, ball change, ball change.
When will she stop flossing in videos?
TBD everyone.
TBD.
Tap and roll babies.
Not to be confused with stop drop and roll.
A good fire drill to understand guests.
Tuck and roll looks like this.
You tuck, ouch, your knee cracks,
you sit on your booty, you roll and you stand up
with a nice pointed toe in the back.
So I'm gonna teach you how to do that.
It's a really basic Jazz roll
we can do it on both sides, today we're doing your right.
So face the front.
You're gonna tuck your right knee, kind of in a lunge
like your asking someone to marry you.
I'm thinking about that.
That was a little eyebrow for my boy friend.
Anyways, that's a whole different topic.
We're gonna sit on our booty, sit.
Now, from here, I'm doing a little mermaidy pose,
I'm gonna role to the back and uncross my legs.
Then I'm gonna recross them, I'm now in the opposite
position as I just was on that side.
I stand up on only one foot, okay?
And I point the toe in the back.
So, let's start over.
Five, six, seven, and tuck, sit on your booty,
cross uncross, cross stand up.
Now, a pro tip for this little role
is to use the floor to push yourself up.
Often time dancers, Often time, just once.
Often times, dancers use their knees
and they look like they're really old
trying to get off the floor, you guys are gonna be fine.
Use the floor because it's there.
So what I mean by that, is right here
my hands go down, my left hand helps me
push up off to stand up.
Instead of going like...
(grunts)
Okay?
Six stepping baby.
Your sixth step is your jazz prep
for your piroutte my friends.
There are two different types,
the non-turning and the turning.
I have a very fiery belief, okay?
That the non-turning one is better
when you're more of a beginner intermediate dancer.
Because the one that turns throws your center
off balance before you try and do a piroutte
and I think that's not great training
to have clean and balanced turns.
But every student I teach is like,
"Miss Auti, can we please do the turning one?"
So I'm gonna teach you both, and you guys can pick.
But I'm just saying, as your mom.
As your mom, do the non-turning one.
Five, four, three, two, and one.
All right, so can you see my feet Brayden?
- [Brayden] Mm-hmm
Okay, bring your arms out to a T.
You're gonna point your little toe.
You're doing 6 steps.
That's why it's called a six step.
The first one crosses in front.
I'm gonna step on my left foot and rise up.
Step back on my right foot, cross behind left foot
open up to a parallel Releve, piroutte prep,
and then you're ready to go for your turn.
What did she just say?
Let's rewind that.
We're here, five, six, seven, eight.
Cross front rise, left step, right cross back,
parallel prep and turn.
Cross right, open left, and down cross back
parallel prep, and turn.
Your arms are going T,
that's it the whole time.
The turning one, I guess I'll show you, whatever.
Not mad about it or anything.
We're here, this goes cross one, open two,
turn around yourself, and prep.
(laughter)
Okay, let's do that again, right here.
Six, seven, eight.
Cross right, open left, all right, freeze right here.
Your arms come to a circle, you turn over your left shoulder
to go one, two, three, and up.
Cross open, circle arms and up.
You can see why that's a tricky little guy.
But do what you want, I'm just your mom.
We're high kicking babies!
Here we go.
Remember that cute baby ball change
that you learned earlier?
The back an front one is what you're gonna do right now.
So your gonna go full change, we're gonna do a Bocmar,
your high kick and we're gonna a la seconde, so to the side.
Your arms when you do your ball change
are very straight and clean.
They're in daggers is what I call them,
(slicing)
We go ball change.
From there they come up to an L.
Really really strong, no broken wrists.
We're gonna Bocmar our right leg.
So ball change this guy brushes,
kicks all the way past your head,
out the window, and then comes back down.
So daggers, and L.
Five, six, seven, eight, step back step front,
kick up, and five, six, seven, eight,
ball change Bocmar last time, six, seven, straight knees,
one, two, straight up and finito.
You guys, I'm delusional, I'm dehydrated, I'm hot,
I have tights on under this, all for you.
'cause I love you guys.
"We love you too Miss Auti."
Okay.
Anyways, we're learning our X jump babies.
If you watched my leap video from last week,
there's a big gian century leap that Sidney does
and it's gorgeous, but the progression
rewinded would come from an X jump.
So you do the X jump first, then you get
your big beautiful center.
So we're gonna do a run run X jump,
so what you're gonna do is daggers again,
run right cross in front, left.
The X jump, you're gonna hit an X position
in the air, hence the name, X jump all the way up.
You're gonna land on one foot and cross behind.
That same goot that's behind is the direction
that you turn to complete the movement.
You always turn out of your leaps for the most part.
(laughter)
That was a vague description.
Sometimes you do this, always.
Okay, so five, six, seven, eight,
run right, run left, develope that right leg
high X, cross back.
The whole room just shook, that's fine.
Turn over your left shoulder, and run off into the distance.
Let's do that again.
Five, six, seven, and run front X cross back turn, yeah!
You guys, thanks for jazzin' it up with me.
I feel like you guys have been asking for jazz
unless I was delusional, but let me know
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So thank you for watching, I hope you guys enjoyed this,
and I'll see you next week.
Stay hydrated babies.
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