We have the amazing Anna Kovalova, hello everyone for every single dance we perform we need to
understand and we need to really send the message and the idea of the character
of the dance and i'm gonna we're gonna start from this easiest but it's not really uh from the rumba
and what type of hip action we have in rumba how we can characterizate our hip movement in rumba
any guess figure eight okay very good so i will cross my hands right now yes my arms and that's
actually the direction of your hip motion so we're not just randomly doing the number eight yeah
we need to exactly understand what's happening because we yes we can have a pendulum action right
it's a side to side or forward right but it's not actually movement goes just side to side
that's the cross and i want you to point to the center can you point where is the center here
okay that's the center of your body weight that's the center of your center right so that's the
directions top and bottom the elbow and the hand that's the directions where you should supposedly
move your hips yes so as you can see it's not sideways it's more diagonally forward right
and then from here we have in this if you can mark the yes this part that's right
and just a small scoop so that's going to be our rotation so when we have our pendulum diagonally
yes we're sending our hip forward diagonal now that's the empty spot we have to
add the rotation to our hip movement and again we have to send our hip diagonally forward
and fill out this empty spot and again diagonally fill it in diagonally and rotate yes forward
diagonally rotate so you end up with your hip which is backward diagonal right now
right now we're gonna send our hip forward diagonal and we will fill out this space
and now we're at the elbow point right and again forward diagonal and fill out the
space and forward diagonal fill out the space so that's how we create our figure eight you you're
supposed to know the cl the clear direction of your hip also it's very important to um
manage the body weight on your foot because when we send in our hip forward diagonally our body
weight is going more towards the ball of the foot then we can create that's how we can create a more
action and we have a more mobility in our hip when our body weight is also transferring on the foot
now when we rotate and we finish our pendulum action you're supposed to feel your weight more
towards the heel of your standing foot and again send your hip to the pendulum diagonal feel that
your body weight is more towards the ball rotate and end up towards your heel again forward ball
center when you're when you start to do the rotation heel of your standing leg again forward
ball center and the heel again yes feel how your body weight is moving on the foot the easiest
exercise for your body weight transfer if you place your hand right just um on your
um waist on the back yes on the lower back and you just keep your feet together yes or apart just
slightly apart and feel that your spine is going forward on the ball that's your body weight and
you can if you can do more do more yes come back to the center feel that your spine right now is
right in the center and right now move your spine move your lower back towards the heel again center
ball that's right come back to the center and reach for your heel very good so that's the point
the lower back that's the point which we transfer on our foot yes from the ball to the center to the
heel yes and right now after this exercise let's start again practice our number eight and when
you're sending your hip forward diagonally feel that your low back is more towards the ball of
the foot then center and then after the rotation when you finish the rotation towards the heel and
again ball center heel and ball center heel very good very nice ball center heel ball center heel
very very nice so now when we dancing in a chasse or side step in a roomba we always have to manage
same heap action yes number eight so um i'm going to turn around so we can do it together
and slow slow slow change in place slow slow and slow slow slow and slow slow slow
one more time continue it slow slow feel that your weight is changing on your foot slow
slow slow and slow slow slow yes also um especially especially regarding the
international rumba uh our timing in rumba is slow so you also if you want to show a
great character of the dance you have to understand the timing of the dance it's also very
very important yeah we uh when we have the hip action we need to know how much time we have for
specific action for for the movement yes so in rumba we we go only with this slow and try to
feel the body weight on the foot and really work your figure eight non-stop yes even
when you switch in place your pendulum action which is as a cross going diagonally it's still
same when your feet is apart or when your feet are together same principle same direction in your
hip and the same body weight transfer so when my hip is going back diagonally i feel that my body
weight on my standing leg is more towards the heel and in cha cha cha we gonna use a little bit more
rotary action the rotary of course we are on the slow as a roomba we always go go with the
pendulum and figure eight okay so that's why we started with the roomba because that's a one of
the princip which we also have in cha cha cha but we're gonna have it only in the slow counts
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