Anna Kovalova | how to dance samba cruzado walks
hello everyone and welcome to my live stream class i'm very excited about our lesson and
today you will learn the crosata books in samba and i will teach you how to prepare
your body before music starts and it will be very easy step by step process as you watch
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we're gonna start with the cruzado box and it will be a three important tips which will
be helpful for beginners as well it would be a great reminder for advanced dancers now
when we dance with the walks it's a quite easy steps yeah so we have to let's say uh
we prepare our body weight on the left leg uh the difference between someone and cha-cha
or somebody and throw but that we are not arriving on the straight leg while we're walking
forward our knee is slightly our front knee is slightly soft now after that when you feel
that your body weight is on your front leg you have to collect both knees together and
you're not actually straightening your stains and legs your both knees are soft not compressed
and i will explain you later why it's not compressed so it's kind of soft now from that
point you have to prepare your moving foot forward and then transfer your body weight
on that leg with slight knee kind of softening your knee yes one more time connect your knees
together soft knees prepare your foot forward then move your body weight on it and remember
that your back leg is straight your front knee is quite soft let's practice one more
time prepare your foot forward transfer your body weight on the leg soften your front knee
back leg straight again collect your feet together prepare your foot point your foot
forward with no weight here and now transfer your spine on the front leg again collect
your feet together point your foot forward transfer your bite away on your front foot
soften your knee now i will explain you why it's a softening it's not the compressed thing
and that gonna be our first topic topic number one the level is during this number because
other sample works the level in the level of the height you should remain and keep quite
the same and flat so we're not really bouncing through the steps we're not going down and
then up down and up so we're not really accessing uh compression to the foot we have to keep
our level in our head and in our body quite flat and it's kind of very natural to your
natural body height so we're not really going down because in samba our ins in brazil books
our level change goes from neutral to slightly higher so we're going up come back to the
neutral up come back to the neutral so we kind of like we have this rising bumps but
we're not really compressed down and it's important to understand that your front knee
because we want to remain the same body height we're not really flexing our front knee it's
a very very natural so if you can see my head doesn't change much so i keep the same level
and from here when you prepare your foot for it now you can leave it anyway and prepare
yourself slightly higher before you can transfer your body weight on the front leg and you
come back to your neutral natural height level again collect your feet
transfer your body yes let's try other side neutral so it's your natural body height prepare
yourself higher raise up transfer your body will come back to the same body height again
neutral up come back to the neutral position again neutral up come back to the normal body
height it's very important then um first of all your movement during the grozada walks
will be progressive continuously number two you will kind of look less bumpy in the way
and your movement will be much more smoother and that's a kind of like a very basic principle
of the sandbox of the box number two um how much we have to like it's a very common question
i received how much should i flex my front knee it has to be like of course we've already
established that our body height level height has to be neutral so it's not not much difference
right but um here is one kind of topic which i personally create for myself i found it
helpful and it works personally for me and i hope you'll find it helpful too now every
time after when i point my foot and when i have to move and shift my spine on the front
leg um i'm always looking for coordination between my front knee and my back foot so
it's not like something uh some some move i have to create first and then i have to
do a second move in my back leg i'm trying to coordinate 50 50 this action so after when
i prepare my foot forward when i move my spine forward on the leg it's important thing to
coordinate your front knee and your back foot because sometimes we flex on the front knee
and our back foot in the back doesn't really look nice and beautiful so how much you're
gonna flex your front knee that much you will develop your back foot but again develop it
doesn't mean that you have to point your foot release your weight from the leg and just
show the pretty lines now you have to feel and sense that your back foot in a very strong
ball all your toes release glue to the floor of your back foot and now from here try to
like feel that you are turning your foot your back foot first and at the same time you coordinated
this action with your front knee 50 50 how much you use your back foot that much you
have to soften your left knee till the point when your foot is developing on the high point
now your action is coordinated it's complete now one more time you collect your feet together
you prepare your foot forward you move your spine on the front leg and after this action
coordinate your front knee and your back foot how much you develop your back foot action
that much you should use and softening your front knee turn and point again collect prepare
your food for it move your spine on the front leg and coordinate your knee and your foot
i hope you can see it because i have a quite high heels and uh well it's kind of like challenging
for me to show it to you but again um from here even on the high heels you have this
opportunity to work your back foot on the maximum and then you collect your feet you
prepare your foot forward you move your spine forward and now from here use your back foot
in coordination with your front knee maximum and they can collect point your foot transfer
your spine and use your back and knee on maximum incarnation very well that was topic number
one the knee and foot coordination during the gross and number three um and that's kind
of um very common mistake i would say when um after a unique election when we prepare
our food probably many of you heard that when we have rosado walks first thing what we have
to do we have to prepare the leg and then that's our body weight on it so it's usually
end up that's when you prepare your foot quartering and then one full beat on two or three you
transfer your body weight on the front leg now if we just do it only purely through the
our legs it will look very steep stiff and you probably will lose the character of samba
so it's not only leggy it's not only lab action collect food transfer collect food transfer
will look like the robots and you with this action if you just only gonna use your legs
you will lose totally um pureness um
character and authentic of the summer dance now the um there is in some dances in some
figures we have like foot arrival then hip movement or we have body movement foot arrival
yes during the bruising walks you have to use the um option number two so your body
projecting your foot when you move your body yes after when you collect your feet you have
to activate your body from your standing leg side it's your back it's your spine so you
have to activate your standing leg which will actually gives you the energy to opposite
side and the number one you have to activate your body and that gonna project your foot
for proper preparation then transfer your spine on the left yes one more time so you
collect your feet together activate your spine and your body that's gonna that will project
your food then you're gonna transfer your body weight on it and then you collect your
feet together activate your body first project your food with your stomach transfer your
bite away let's practice together so prepare yourself on left leg in my case dancing that's
your body weight and connect your feet together now try to feel that your body ratcheting
your foot forward as a preparation then transfer your body weight on the leg again collect
your feet together activate your body leg transfer your body on the leg collect your
feet again activate your body transfer your body weight on the leg very good try one more
time and try to right now practice already with those with these three points point i
will remind you again point number one it's your level height we're not going down we're
going from neutral natural height level up number two it's your and i want to forget
what was number two now uh your knee and foot coordination yes so when you transfer your
body away on the leg how much you activate your back foot and remember your toast is
not on point glue to the floor very strong ball how much you activate your back foot
and that doesn't mean that you have to push from the foot no you just have to twist it
and develop this kind of rotation to the maximum point together with your front knee and number
three every time when you prepare your food it's not only food action it comes from your
body and how much you send your body forward how much you activate this fight that further
you can go if you have just very kind of small pulse the less movement the less progressive
your movement will be let's practice it together prepare yourself collect your feet together
now body foot knee alternation with your back foot collect body foot knee coordination with
your back foot her leg body foot knee coordination with your back foot great um and if you just
like little extra tip in the end if you if you don't know how i have to move my body
watch this what should i do yes of course you have to feel it from your back from your
left muscles but also it's a great exercise just turn on your favorite music doesn't matter
if they're going to be a summer music any time and just imagine that you are at the
nightclub how are you going to dance in nightclub not like this you're not going to think about
these steps and how much rotation you do now of course not you're gonna feel first of all
you're gonna feel it in your body you're gonna feel it through your body that's the ring
i'm not trying to activate my steps or my legs or my knees or my hips that's a body
action that's your samba that's your leather boobs are one a two three four that's what
produce your movement that's what produce your step that's your bite just remember it
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