- Hello, beautiful humans!
Today we're learning another contemporary dance.
The song is really beautiful.
You don't need a lot of space,
but maybe just push some couches,
push some little siblings out of the way,
and let's do some contemporary.
You're gonna start with your feet about hip width apart.
Your right arm's gonna reach out.
Once it reaches out,
you're gonna plie to the side
and your hand comes to your chest like this.
So this goes out, plie.
Now you're doing a Chaines turn to the right side.
Chaines.
You're gonna step on your right foot,
and you're gonna tuck your left knee.
Okay, let's bring it back.
Five, six, seven, eight.
We reach, plie.
Chaines, step, tuck.
From here, you're gonna sit on your left butt cheek
and you're gonna push your feet out to a pike.
You wanna make sure that your spine is nice and tall.
Toes are pointed, legs are straight.
From here your head initiates a roll back,
hands get put on the floor.
You roll on your stomach,
point your toes,
and you stand up facing the back with a tendu.
Let's start there:
five, six, seven,
reach out,
plie, Chaines.
Step, tuck,
sit, swing, pike,
head roll to the back.
Stand, tendu. Okay.
From the tendu, dancers,
you're gonna bring your feet together,
you're gonna sway to the right, one.
Sway to the left, two.
You're gonna ball change,
so you're gonna step, step,
keep your arms down in blades.
You're gonna do a fan on a plie,
so my leg fans around,
plie into the floor and over with lots of control.
Let's go from the beginning:
five, six, seven, eight.
You go out, plie,
Chaines.
Step, tuck,
sit and point.
Head roll.
Standing up.
Feet together.
Sway one, two,
ball change, fan.
From there we step.
We're doing a Pas de bourree around yourself.
So if I'm going back, side front,
when I reach the front I'm pushing my hands out. (exhales)
Lots of tension there, push.
My back leg is gonna come through with a flex
as my hand cuts around, okay.
So we stood up from our roll.
We bring our feet together.
We're gonna go one, and two,
ball change, fan.
Step back, side, front,
flex.
♪ It's nice when you can bring it inside ♪
All right. (claps)
♪ I been losing sleep and it won't get better ♪
♪ I can't get my mind off of you ♪
♪ Days go by and I can't help wondering ♪
♪ If you think about me too ♪
♪ Don't you just hate it ♪
♪ Being away from someone you just wanna ♪
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All right, part two.
We just did a really dramatic flex
and then we bring our foot back down.
You're doing a Rond de Jambe with a swim arm, kay.
I'm not a very good swimmer,
but that's pretty much how people swim.
Right, Bee?
(ping) Yes.
Okay, swim.
You're doing another Pas de bourree behind yourself.
Back, side.
That foot that you initially stepped on
is gonna do a tendu and you're gonna reach over.
And then you're gonna dramatic step in.
Other side: Rond de Jambe with the swim.
Back, side, reach.
Dramatic step together.
Let's try that again.
I had to burp. (laughs)
Okay, here we go:
five, six, seven,
and we go swim, back,
side stretch, together,
and swim.
Back, side stretch,
together.
You wanna make sure the leg
that's not doing the actual Rond de Jambe
is in a plie so that you don't hurt your ligaments, okay.
Plie, push.
Let's bring it back.
We just did our fan pick. (snaps)
We step, we turn around ourselves.
Bah-bah, push.
That back foot comes through with a flex,
release, and push.
Pas de bourree, reach.
Dramatic together and push.
Up, around, reach and together.
From here, you're doing another chug through,
so we're bringing back the motif of that flexed foot.
The arm's gonna come behind your head again, whomp.
You're gonna plie in parallel
and then you're gonna jump out to a bigger stance.
So that's three different steps together: flex,
plie parallel, out.
From here, the leg that's extended out
is gonna be the one that
you're gonna shift your weight onto.
So from here,
my arms are gonna go, whoosh,
like I'm just floating.
And I'm gonna float over and tuck that right knee,
or whichever knee you're using, okay.
From there, this is the very last part dancers.
You're gonna sit on your butt cheek.
Lay down on your side.
You're gonna roll on your back.
Make sure all of the points of your back
are touching the floor, drop your head.
Top leg is gonna swing over in a nice pointed position.
Roll back on your back.
All points of your back on the floor.
Lay on the side and rest.
Notice my back foot is pointed.
Try not to have a little biscuit back here, okay?
Pointed toes.
Okay, bring it up.
I know you're like, Miss Auti, that was a lot of things.
It's gonna be okay, we're gonna go over it again.
Let's go from the top.
All right, nice and slow dancers, we're here.
Wider than hip width apart, we sway.
We don't sway, that was a test.
That's not the beginning of the dance.
We reach out, plie.
Chaines, step, tuck.
Butt, pike.
Head roll, point your toes.
Stand together.
Sway, sway, ball change.
Fan, step, Pas de bourree.
Push, flex together.
Rond de Jambe.
Pas de bourree.
Reach, step.
Other way.
Rond, Pas de bourree.
Step together, flex.
Plie, out.
Float, tuck.
Sit, lay, roll.
Swing, roll,
point your toe, rest.
♪ Sound ♪
(claps)
♪ I've been losing sleep and it won't get better ♪
♪ I can't get my mind off of you ♪
♪ Days go by and I can't help wondering ♪
♪ If you think about me too ♪
♪ Don't you just hate it ♪
♪ Being away from ♪
♪ Someone you just wanna hold on to ♪
♪ It's driving me crazy ♪
♪ Tired of waiting ♪
♪ I really hate being away from you ♪
All right my loves,
thank you so much for dancing with me.
I know all of you love
the little contemporary routines that I put up.
Let me know how it goes.
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so I can see you dancing.
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I'll see you guys next week.
Love you so much.
(smack)
(pop music)