feel of hugging the balloon and create that volume that we all dancers
strive for
hello everybody my name is manuel favilla and i'm natalia
welcome to our cha-cha tutorial today we are very excited
because we have a pleasure uh to guide you through the
learning experience of cha-cha natural the ladies are dancing
and one and two and three and cha cha
one and two three cha cha one two
three cha cha one two three and chop chop
one and two and three and chop chop one and
two and three and
replace and then we have lobster forward champ champ
one as mama mentioned that on that one he's going to start
turning his sternum to indicate me where i'm going
and exactly for that reason i will take a step on one
right between his feet so i'm aiming to go forward but since my
partner changing the direction i will place my right foot right between
his right and left feet so
we go and one end now we go two and
three and now looking forward chump chum and now i'm stepping right between
his feet and my frame and my stern i'm going to
change a little bit to the right
manal also mentioned that we're using this balloon idea hugging a big balloon
when we go into the frame and we're moving our hips
towards backwards we're moving our hips backwards as we're creating that frame
okay so that part is equally valid for the ladies as well
because only together we can create that feel
of hugging the balloon and create that volume that we all dancers strive for
right so there are two things here i'm going
into my lock step which i'm going to explain in a minute we'll have a block
step and the last step of the lock step i'm
standing right between my my man's feet and i'm creating that hugging frame
by dancing my arms forward wide wide elbows to the sides and forward and
my pelvic my my whole pelvic area i'm going
to come backwards okay so the next step we have
and one then we have forward block turning actually we have
forward walk turning and for that um when we do that step we have a chance
ladies actually articulate our foot so we have and one
end then we have a cross in front when we're doing cross in front always
remember that you have two legs what does it mean
we need to connect our inner thighs and by rotating our
right leg out i would like that you activate your
standing legs heel and tuck your knees together
and connect your inner thighs that way we'll achieve
beautiful latin cross position and we will
have nice
line in the legs and feet the next step is the chasse
cha cha one on the chasse i would like to mention
that i'm using slightly soft knees to achieve
beautiful musicality okay when we talk about musicality
on the foot build on the foot beats we use the
um the sound which is um
and then on the happy ding ding so on that
thing i would like that you use slightly soft knees
and small aspects so and ding ding one finishing
sideways with the turn turn out right foot
then we have cross in front and sideways and then again cross in
front then we have actually a repetition of uh
stepping sideways and crossing in front for the lady it's very important while
we do that repetition not to slide our feet
around the floor but actually accuracy of the foot placement
and activation of the standing leg plays a very important role here
so what we do we activate our inner thighs
turning out our free foot rising our left heel up
and ending up in the cross position and then with a nice
leg line and feet line and feet position while we have our knees crossed
okay then we do the repetition of those side crossing
front side crossing front finishing with the
lock step
one and so my responsibility will always be
different we have three parts on the first part i will try to maintain the
inside circle on the second part what i do with my chassis
i will go much more on the outside circle and on the last one i will
maintain the in the center of the circle
in order to create the nice wind up for the opening out
so it's gonna look like this and one two and three and cha
cha one two and three and cha cha one two and three
and cha cha one two and three and cha cha one and the two
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