- Hey guys, welcome back!
Today we have a very special vlog.
It's the one that you guys have all been asking for.
Your dance leaps.
We have beautiful dancers from Capital Dance Company
to show you not one, not two, not three,
not four, but five leaps!
Yeah!
(laughing)
You guys will be learning your center,
your reverse,
your firebird,
your barreled calypso,
and your double stag.
Alright you guys Sydney is gonna be helping us out
with our center leap today.
So first we're gonna break down your chasse.
So if you could point your little toe out for me,
we're gonna show them a chasse.
Opposite arm is forward.
So if she has her right foot forward here
and the left arm is forward she's gonna do a step together
and she goes up, good.
From there that left foot is gonna step in front
and then to a jump, you can do just a baby little center
all the way up and then she crosses behind
to turn around.
So let's shimmy on back and break that down more.
So go ahead and start with a nice pointed toe.
She does a nice chasse and then she steps in front
and freezes, good.
From here you're gonna square your hips
to shift forward, so you wanna make sure
wherever you're dancing that your hips
are completely square to the front
and Sydney go ahead and show the arms,
they'll come up to a nice T.
You developpe that first leg, in this case we're doing
the right side, that left leg cuts behind
and you turn over your left shoulder.
Bring it back.
(upbeat music)
Alright you guys so a good little tip
for your center leap is how to get the height
and you have to go down if you want to come up.
So that left leg plie is the most important
before you propel yourself upwards.
And also squaring your hips off to the front
will get you the actual line of the center,
landing in a cushioned plie with that right knee
and then Sydney will cross behind
and again turning over your upstage shoulder
and then continuing on.
For all of these leaps you should start
as low as you can, keeping your technique sound
and then getting higher and higher
as you get the muscle memory built in a little bit more.
So don't get discouraged if your center is not as high
as this lady's, we didn't all start out there
just start it low and then we'll get up.
Let's see it one more time for me.
Five, six, seven, and chasse,
step front, up, cross back,
and she's up.
Yeah.
Alright so Cheryl is here to show us our reverse leap
so let's show the people.
You can go ahead and go in full time,
five, six, seven, and chasse,
and up, beautiful (clapping).
Got a little audience over there (laughs).
Alright so you guys, you're going to start
with the same chasse that you just learned
from your center, but because it's a reverse leap
it's going to be the opposite foot forward
as the one that will be forward in your leap.
That was very confusing, yeah?
We're gonna show you.
So you're here and your left foot's forward,
opposite arm is forward, you do a chasse,
now when you step you're going to flip your body
to the opposite side that you're chasseing
and that right leg will be in front, okay?
Bring it back.
Go on and show a small version of it
and nice and slow motion, seven,
and she goes chasse, step front and flip those hips
to the side.
So our tip for this leap was to spot the side
that you will be landing at.
So even though Cheryl's doing her chasse this direction,
when her arm's go to fifth, en avant and up,
she spots before her body gets there.
So your eye line tells your body where you'll be landing.
So come back.
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One last little tip for this reverse leap
is the pathway of your arms.
So for the chasse Cheryl starts with her arms
in a nice L, remember opposite arm in front
as the foot that's tondu, she does her chasse,
as she steps her arms go to fifth en avant
so a circle in front of your body.
When you spot your arms come up to a high V.
So it goes chasse, step, flip.
Good job lady.
(laughing)
She said, "Thank you." (claps)
I feel like you're so far apart.
She's like off in another side.
Sophie's gonna be showing us our,
- Firebird.
- ♪ Ahhh. ♪
Our firebird.
So two things before she shows us.
You have to know what an attitude derriere is.
Derriere's behind you.
So your attitude is your bent leg in,
that knee is above your toe.
Can you show them the opposite way?
Yeah, no that is not what you want to do.
So knee above your toe, a nice lifted chest,
that's what your back leg is gonna look like.
You can come down babe (laughs).
And like stay there for 12 hours.
(laughing)
Make sure you know what the attitude is
before trying this leap out.
Second thing is, go ahead and pop your way on over
to my back flexibility stretches
because this one does have a nice little cambre,
a little back arch in it.
So nail your attitude, nail your back flexibility,
then try this guy out.
Okay so just like the other leaps
you're gonna start with your tondu forward
for the chasse that you're about to do.
Opposite arm forward as well.
You can go ahead and go full speed,
she's gonna go chasse, step arch, good.
So as you can see that back leg comes up
into an attitude, but the front leg
is stick straight.
So come on back Sophie, let's show 'em a little bit slower.
Just your chasse.
She steps in front, she's going to developpe
that right leg, she'll jump onto it
as she bends her back knee and arches.
Let's try it again.
(upbeat music)
Your little tip for this firebird
is the pathway of the arms.
So Sophie will show us, she goes to an L,
to a fifth en avant and then you kind of swim out
into your arch.
One more time she goes chasse,
and circle, and arch.
And you wanna pull up through your chin
and the front of this, what is this? (laughs)
- Sternum?
- Your sternum, yes.
The front of your chin and you don't wanna crunch
your head back, there should still be some length
so press your shoulders down and let the growth
come through your neck.
Let's try it one more time.
Five, six, seven, and lift up, and back.
Beautiful!
- Thanks.
(laughing)
(mumbling)
(laughing)
- Nice, you wanna tell 'em?
- Miss Auti was my first ballet teacher.
- Isn't that the cutest thing?
Isn't that so cute?
- [Students] So cute.
(students talking over each other)
- I know.
- Okay friends so Miss Casey is going to show us
our barreled calypso and this one's pretty fancy.
Why don't you show us the whole leap
and then we'll break it down.
Ready, five, six, seven,
and up, up, down, down, jump!
Good!
So let's go ahead and break down
the high chaine, low chaine.
So this one, because it's barreled
which just means that you're creating a circular shape
and arching towards what would be your back.
So I kind of will turn
like a rolling barrel all the way around,
you're barreling up and looking at the audience
for this leap.
So you're gonna start facing back.
So she starts with a nice tondu to the front.
What you need to learn first
is your high chaine, low chaine.
For the high chaine, low chaine you start
with the tondu and then you're gonna do a regular chaine
and then a chaine in a plie where your heels
go all the way down.
She's gonna try it again.
We go regular chaine, chaine with your feet
on the floor in a nice plie.
Okay guys so now that you know how to do
your high chaine and your low chaine
and you know that you're going to be barreling
towards what would be your audience,
let's break down the actual leap.
So nice and slow she goes high and low.
From here her right leg is ready to brush up,
as she starts to arch and that back leg
is in that attitude derriere, your bent back knee
that you just learned.
Okay so kind of a lot of steps so let's show it again.
Six, seven, and she goes up, up, down, down,
swing arch then back.
Yeah it's tricky slow (mumbles).
Let's actually do it slow motion.
(upbeat music)
So my pro tip for this one is that sometimes
that high chaine, low chaine can throw you off
and what I tend to see is that dancers
are only taking three steps
and then you're on the wrong foot.
So you need to count out how many?
- Four steps.
- Four, beautiful job.
Four steps before you leap.
So she's going to show us, slow motion she goes,
step one, step two, step three, step four,
then you can go up.
So once you count your cute little
one, two, three, four steps, that's when you know
you should be in the air.
Good job.
- Thank you.
- And run. (laughs)
That was so full off back there.
Guys hi, we're on our last leap.
You ready? - Yes.
- Okay. (laughs)
Jayden's going to be showing us our double stag.
So you already learned how to do your back attitude,
can you show us a front attitude?
You can hold onto me so you don't fall over.
- Okay. (laughs)
- This knee again needs to be on top of your toe.
You don't want to go, I don't even know
how to do the opposite way, like impossible?
(laughing)
And sickle.
Anyways this guy needs to be on top of your toes
so that a little water drop can just fall off of it.
And then show us that back attitude,
same thing here.
Nice and high leg, beautiful.
So in this leap both legs are bending.
You wanna show us?
- Yeah sure. - Okay.
So you do start facing back, you can do this
the opposite direction as well starting forward,
it's kind of up to you or the choreographer,
but today we're doing face back.
Six, seven, and high, low, bend both knees.
Good, that was very nice.
Let's break it down for the people of YouTube.
(laughing)
Okay so she starts with her tondu,
she's gonna do a high chaine and a low chaine
that you just learned.
(upbeat music) Beautiful.
And then that right leg is going to brush up
into a front attitude and as you jump
onto it your back leg bends as well.
So it goes bend, bend, and then your arms up
in a high V.
Let's show them one more time.
(upbeat music)
Another option for this leap is to barrel it
like you saw in some of our other leaps,
and for this one, you wanna show where the arms will go?
Beautiful, they kind of just float in front
of your chest, they're not attached, okay?
Just a nice little breath and again that barrel
leans you over, up and over towards the audience.
You wanna show us this version?
The same intro, but just the arms
and the torso are doing something different.
Six, seven, and up, up,
barrel.
Beautiful, very nice.
So let's break that down a little bit more.
Alright so glide and go high chaine, low chaine,
remember count four steps.
When she comes about to go to the front,
when she comes about
to go to the front. (laughs)
When she's about to go to the front
she's going to shift her arms from her circle
to floating in front of her chest.
She keeps the length in her neck right here
and she takes her eye line towards the audience.
Let's show them one more time.
(upbeat music)
Five, six, seven, and up, up,
and barrel.
Good!
That was so good.
- Thank you.
- And exhale. (laughs)
You guys thank you so much for watching
and thank you to these very sweet and talented girls
from Capital Dance Company in San Jose, California,
my home studio, so if you want to go there.
(laughing)
I'm plugging the whole studio,
but seriously Capital Dance Company is amazing
so check them out if you're local to the Bay Area.
Do you guys love it there, or? - Yeah.
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