The Basic - Variations
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- For students who are more advanced,
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- here are three variations on the basic
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- right.
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- And so that variation, its purpose is to say,
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- what if you turn the basics
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- so that you stay in line of dance?
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- Um, breaking things, uh, uh, let's stay in camera
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- breaking things into the smaller parts
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- and talking through it rapidly
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- after the cross right here, this first step
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- starts to turn the second step.
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- I'm keeping her at the center
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- of a circle as I'm stepping around. So I'm
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- Stepping very tight.
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- So that gets us a lot of rotation.
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- We both change weight and now I'm going back but turning
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- and this sidestep, I'm the pencil
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- And I step way around him And then we carry on.
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- And so the basic idea is in a sidestep one per that,
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- if it's turning, one person can make
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- that sidestep like a Charlie Chaplin
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- or if I were a follower, uh, with the balls
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- of the feet while the other person can go around. And
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- It's really cool if a, if a basic
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- can go in a straight line,
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- That's variation number one.
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- Variation number two
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- I,
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- And once again, it turns, this one turns 180
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- and the point of this variation is the hip facing,
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- actually let's do a, a closeup of that.
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- So then right here, she goes to cross,
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- she's staying facing me with her hips as I'm taking
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- that side step around her.
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- That seems really cool to me.
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- And then the final variation is just to say
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- that crosses don't always have to be quick
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- and that you can control the speed of that cross.
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- Um, so for leaders don't always get in this habit
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- of going da da.
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- Right? Right, right. And for followers, uh,
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- there's a horrible habit also
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- of going, oh, there's the cross.
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- Rather than saying, will you lead me?
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- Rather than saying in the cross
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- and really play with the timing that this
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- is a journey and you don't know what it might be
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- or where your partner may take you or,
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- or where you may take your partner.
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- So the point is that we can vary both the amount
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- that you go around and the timing of the cross.
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- And that makes a lot of variety.
