More About Molinette - Close Embrace

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One thing that's interesting in molinette in close embrace that we don't talk about is that it seems to want to be a little faster.

In open embrace, on a forward/side, typically it can go in this long controlled way. In close embrace, because it's so much smaller, usually it becomes more staccato by stopping.

So that, if you do a quick, quick, slow, then slow becomes a stop where in open embrace that slow goes through. Not only does the distance radically change the follower's styling but it also changes the musical dynamic within the same timing.

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And so that’s doing molinette in close embrace,
which is not -
00:35
Very different animal.
00:36
Not nearly as easy as doing molinette
in open embrace.
00:39
You know, at this point everyone turns off
the video.
00:42
Yes.
00:44
For the followers, a lot of the idea is about
keeping the right distance.
00:48
So you want to stay the same distance
and we've said that over and over.
00:50
But how do you stay the same distance,
when the distance is this big.
00:54
And the answer is, if you see the styling of my feet…
01:06
..I’m cutting behind and it’s that tight, right?
So your backstep becomes this.
01:13
And that way because you don’t have that much
rotation in your hips...
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..because your chest is fixed.
01:17
So you have much less rotation in your hips.
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So there’s your cut.
01:22
On your side step you have more pivot
and then you step side, around.
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On your front step, instead of stepping front,
it almost becomes a pivot with a cross.
01:32
N. A go nowhere ocho.
D. A go nowhere ocho. And then you pivot some more and you step side.
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It’s that tight.
01:45
For the leaders, really if anything I want you to stay a little bit back weighted.
01:51
So you’re on the balls of your feet.
01:53
But if you lean at her, at all,
even in the least bit then...
01:55
..then she sort of flies off into oblivion,
taking you with her.
01:59
They’re like, “That doesn’t sound so bad.”
It is. It is. There are better ways.
02:03
So as you’re here for example, I just turn and
she’ll cut around me.
02:16
That was kind of fun.
02:19
And a lot of close embrace,
a lot of close embrace is about...
02:22
..finding the space when
there’s no space.
02:26
That's really right.
02:27
So for example if she’s here and I’m here
and you say, “There’s no space.”
02:31
But at the same time.
02:35
So he’s following now.
02:36
Right, I’m following. I’m the follower.
My right arm is up.
02:39
But I want you to imagine that right here between you...
02:42
..your body could slide past and turn for the followers,
that you create space where there’s none.
02:47
If we’re talking about a gancho
and she has her foot out…
02:50
..right here we’re still in close embrace.
But you know it barely needs to move.
02:56
So I want you to think that you can use the
rotation of your upper body somewhat…
02:59
..and especially the lower body a lot
to make things work.
03:04
And that’s very obvious in this step.
Let me follow once, so I’m the follower.
03:08
Oh boy.
03:18
Told you that was the only way I knew
how to lead this.
03:20
That works. It works.