(gentle music)
♪ Find me a place ♪
♪ On the West Coast ♪
♪ Where everything ♪
♪ Is yellow ♪
♪ I'm so tired of feeling ♪ the blue
♪ Find me a place ♪
- Hello my gorgeous advanced babies.
today we're doing a lovely contemporary combo.
Its set to a song called "Free."
I'm forgetting the artist,
but we will send it to you.
It's very like start and stoppy
There's a lot of ebbs and flows.
So what I want to challenge you to do
is to find the breaths where everything pauses
but allowing them to seamlessly connect
to the next movement.
So my choreography can very easily look robotic
because it's a lot of like stop, stop
and then it flows to the next part.
What I want you to try and do
is connect to everything
through breathing.
So, let's try it out. I'm excited.
All right, fellas,
go ahead and start about hip-width apart,
you're going to be hunched over
and with your knees bent.
So your hands go (makes sweeping noise)
my palms are flexed.
I'm gonna open up to the right side.
Okay, hands are flexed,
my right leg is straight.
So I go both knees bent,
right leg straight.
Both knees bent, and roll it up.
From there, you can do left or right, I'm doing my right leg
because that's my stronger leg.
I brush this leg up into a parallel
Okay, my left leg is bent.
I'm gonna straighten my left leg
and lift my right leg high.
This is slow.
So brace yourself, okay.
From here, I point and then kinda fold over to a Passé
So from this flex position,
I go up, and over then holding, holding, holding.
I'm gonna Plié deeper to go batma touchback.
From the touchback,
I go right, left
to have my right leg straight, left leg bent.
my hands, brush up in front of my body
into straight pillars,
as I do a little side arch.
from there my right arm guides into a three-step turn.
So, I go
one, two, three,
the third one, lifts, my left high, right leg bends, okay?
Let's go over that from the top.
So right here,
we are hunched over both knees bent,
extend
open,
plié,
roll up,
brush out,
flex up,
plié,
hold, hold, batma,
touchback
go step extend,
turn one, two, three, lift,
hold.
From there,
I do catch that left leg meets my right leg up and over.
Right hand swiveled behind my head,
to stand up parallel.
This is gonna happened in front of my body.
Swivel, swivel swivel, okay?
So I go from here, swivel, swivel swivel
I hug myself, come up nice and tall and then throw.
All right?
So from the throw,
my right leg is going to go into a lunge
but I'm going to elevate first.
So I go elevate, lunge.
My chest is melting over
I do a pattern, left, right, left.
So I'm now down in a lunge
with my right palm touching the floor.
I'm gonna scoot back a little, so I don't hit the bar.
From here, I lift my chest up as I lift my back leg
into a bent attitude.
Its swings up, into a floating passé
Let me show you from the side.
I go,
float on a plié,
brush up to a floating passé
From the floating passé, danseurs
I step across my body, I prepare an inside turn
I'm doing a little released swivel turn
step, okay?
Then I go, reach
up,
hand to face, look to the left.
Let's do that again, okay.
Let's go from to the top,
and I'm gonna do a little mark through
and then we'll try it with music.
So we're here, we go open,
This is turn, we go down, we roll it up.
This goes leg, this is flexed,
this is bend, bend, bend.
That's batma, touchback.
Step left, and arch,
three step turn with the a hold, hold, hold,
catch that up,
hand swivel, swivel, swivel
hug, up, throw.
Here's your lunge.
Elevate, lunge higher
palm, chest, attitude,
hold,
croisé,
cross,
open,
swivel,
step,
tango, reach,
face, look left.
(gentle music)
♪ Find me a place ♪
♪ On the West Coast ♪
♪ Where everything ♪
♪ Is yellow ♪
♪ I'm so tired of feeling blue ♪
♪ Find me a place ♪
- All right, sweet friends.
I hope you love that combo,
that one was like extra special for me.
I love things that have a lot of pull,
and then a pullback to it brings a lot of dynamics
into the movement, texture and feel.
So let me know how you like it,
type a little discord,
let me know what else you guys want to see.
I love you so much.
Happy Dancing.
(upbeat music)