- Hey everyone, I am so excited
to announce Miss Auti's live dance workshop.
So on April 11th,
from 1:30 to 4:30 pm Pacific Standard Time,
check your time zone if you're somewhere else,
I'm hosting three full hours of live dance content.
The first hour, I have a very special guest,
the founder of the Whole Dancer, Miss Jess Spinner.
I'm super happy to be talking to her.
We're gonna go through all of the common insecurities
and struggles that dancers go through,
and how to build strong, resilient mindset
regardless of all that junk.
The second hour, we're gonna be working on flexibility,
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so this is your moment.
I am going to help you nail all of those tricks,
and technical goals you've been working on,
and up level your range of motion.
The very last hour will be a contemporary class
so you'll leave having learned a brand new piece
of choregraphy taught by yours truly.
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- [Narrator] It's time for the moment
you've been waiting for.
- We're learning how to do a calypso today.
Calypso is the most, well, is it the most popular,
I don't know, Miss Auti,
but calypsos have been around forever.
So today's the day that you're gonna learn how to do it.
You really do need some space for this.
Get some cardio, make sure you're warmed up,
seriously, make sure you're warmed up.
Pop over to one of my warm-up vlogs or stretch vlogs,
just anything to get your blood pumping.
And let's get jumpin'.
But first.
Ooh, that was a good one,
our patron of the week is Mathilde Olesen.
Brayden and I just got into a fight,
meaning we talked about it for one minute,
of how to pronounce your first name.
Mathilda, Mathilde, Mat-hilde.
Please let me know, 'cause I think it's Mathilde.
What do you think it is, B?
- [Brayden] I thought it was Math-ilde.
- Math-ilde, either way it's beautiful and we love you
so stinking much, thank you for all of your support.
Congratulations on being our patron of the week,
and getting into our vlog.
We love you (blows kiss).
All right, there are a couple things you need to know
before you do your calypso.
First thing is, the position of your legs.
Probably important.
I'm gonna be doing a right-side calypso,
in which case your front leg needs to be stick straight.
So that front leg shoots up.
Your back leg is in attitude.
That is what makes it a calypso,
is that attitude right here.
You wanna make sure that your knee is above your toe,
and not the other way around,
so that you're not dipping your knee down.
Lift it up, so straight front leg,
attitude in the back.
Your arms.
The arm that is out closest to the extended leg
is rounded and out.
The arm that is closest to the lifted leg is also lifted.
So your arms are pretty much mirroring
what your legs are doing.
So in the air, I'm going to look like this
for my upper body.
There's two different options in a calypso
that we're gonna work on today.
You can either be completely upright in a calypso,
or you can have a little bit of a back arch.
That is up to you.
Now let's work on the prep for the leap.
Okay, so our prep for the calypso
is a high chaine, low chaine,
meaning you're doing your upright chaine,
and the chaine in the plie.
So let's go over that first,
start with the tendu front, arms in a nice third position,
you're gonna spot out to the side.
A high chaine goes up on a releve,
and a low chaine goes down in a plie.
You need to take four total steps before you leap.
Five, six,
seven,
count them, one,
two,
three,
four,
five, six, seven,
and count, one, two, count three, four.
I'm gonna show you from the back.
Six, seven,
and high chaine,
low chaine.
From there is where you're going to be jumping,
on to
the supporting leg.
In my case, I'm doing a right side like I told you,
so you count one, two, three, four, jump (clicks fingers),
and you always land on how many feet per leaps, Brayden?
- One, wonderful one, ha ha ha.
- One, good answer.
Let's try a little baby one.
Five, six, seven,
and, one,
two, three, four, jump.
Okay, let's do the whole thing.
So you wanna make sure that you get a ton of power,
and power comes from when you lower
to the ground for your plie,
so that you can jump up super high.
Also, you wanna make sure
that your shoulders aren't up here,
sometimes when we get stressed out,
our shoulders go up to our ears.
Press them down.
And breathe up, so there's a little bit of a lift in there.
For the high chaine, low chaine,
make sure you don't go too slow,
because it'll feel weighted.
So if you go up, up, down, down, jump,
you'll have a little bit more momentum
than if you're going slow motion.
So we want to get the position of the legs,
then you get the high chaine, low chaine mechanics,
and you're taking four whole steps,
then add the power and the speed
truly into the big jump.
Here we go.
Ready, B? - [Brayden] Mm-hmm.
- Five, six, seven, and.
(laughs)
Okay, so once you have the jump kind of,
you do wanna work on turning out of it
so that you're not just landing
and you're like, where am I?
After you do the leap, up, continue the momentum
over your right shoulder,
and then you're going to step out of it.
So that's called turning out of your leap.
So if your teacher is like, high chaine, low chaine,
calypso, turn out.
You're like, what is a turn out,
that's what's happening right there.
So after you calypso, continue to turn around yourself
in order to complete the rotation
and find your front again.
Yay.
Thank you so much for watching,
I'm really excited to make this one.
This was a request of one of our patrons,
so the How to Do a Calypso came from patreon.com/missauti.
She asked if we could make a video of it,
and I thought it was a great idea,
so thank you so much for recommending that,
and I hope that you guys really enjoy learning
how to do this leap.
Tag us on Instagram so I can put it on my Instagram story,
highlight my babies,
that collection is getting bigger and bigger
and I love watching all of you dance
and learn from the channel,
and it's just really cool seeing the positive impact
that it's making, so please continue to share
with Brayden and I @missauti and @braydenbear,
we love you so much,
see you soon.
(blows kiss)
(upbeat music)
(laughing and chewing)
Just a quick nutritious snack between shoots.
Can you see it?
- [Brayden] Oh yeah. (Auti laughs)
- I'm sorry guys.
(upbeat music)