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Continuing one we have group number two.
This is a fairly long group, which has basics, whisks, samba walks,
side samba walks, criss cross traveling voltas, shadow criss cross bota fogos,
and then a maypole. Now, all of these elements comprise
of dancing the five basic elements that we taught you in bronze I latin,
which is the basic, the whisk, samba walk, volta, bota fogo.
All of these things you should have learned in the bronze I tape.
In the future we’ll be doing a technique tape that will give you detailed
technique on dancing these figures, but for now we’re gonna go with
just a detailed description of how the figures are put together into
bronze I and bronze II groups. So here we go,
first of all we’re gonna dance the group by counting out
for you and coming towards the camera.
Start with four basics, one a two, two a two,
three a two, four a two. We continue with four whisks
turning on the fourth whisk. One a two, two a two,
three a two, four a two. We dance three forward samba walks,
one a two, two a two, three a two. One side samba walk leading
the lady slightly ahead of us, one a two, into an extended hold.
Now we dance criss cross traveling voltas. One a two, a three a four,
five a six, a seven a eight. Shadow criss cross bota fogas.
One a two, three a four, five a six, seven a eight.
The maypole. One a two, a three a four,
whisks to finish.
Alright, now, I’m gonna break this down,
I’m gonna dance this together with Wendy so you can see both parts.
Otherwise by myself it may not give you a clear sense of how
this fits together with each other. So the first part is easy.
We have basics; we have whisks, one a two, two a two,
three a two, leading the lady to turn on the
fourth whisk, starting forward samba walk with the outside walk,
one a two, two a two, three a two, four a two
is a side samba walk. All of this is the same as the
bronze 1 Latin group. Criss cross volta,
again exactly the same as the bronze I . One a two, a three a four.
Switch legs, switch sides. One a two, a three a four.
On purpose, I’m making sure the lady is still slightly ahead of me because
we’re not finished with the group yet. We’re gonna dance shadow bota fogo.
One a two. We’re on opposite foot –
Wendy’s on right foot I’m on left foot, and we are crossing each other
as we step into the next bota fogo. Two a two, three a two.
On the fourth one we stay closer to each other
and the man’s hand is held up here palm to palm,
as opposed to down.
Now the lady does the maypole. And the man also does his
part in the maypole. One a two, a three a four.
Whisk the man’s right the lady’s left. One a two, two a two, three a two.
Now we’re gonna have a close up of the maypole.
Here is where the maypole starts, at the of the fourth bota fogo.
Now Wendy is gonna dance a spot volta, turning one and a quarter to her right
and end up facing that way. Now here’s a close-up of Wendy’s
feet dancing the spot volta turn with the weight remaining on the left foot,
and the left foot is just using the left toe. And, one a two, a three, a four.
Very important that you understand the footwork.
Now in the mean time, the man is just dancing
a volta circling to the left. It’s only a small amount of turn,
he’s just gonna go, one a two, a three a four.
In the mean time his let hand is circling above the lady’s head like so.
So we’ll bring Wendy in here. Combination of the lady’s spot volta
and the man dancing the traveling circling volta,
and you have this. One a two, a three a four.
End facing each other, the man’s right foot
the lady’s left foot for the whisk. And there you have it.
So, we’re gonna do that at this angle so you have another view of it,
coming across the camera. So we have basic,
whisk, one a two, two a two, three a two, turning, samba walk,
side samba walk one a two. Criss cross volta, one a two a three a four,
five a six a seven a eight. Bota fogos criss crossing,
one a two, a three a four, five a six, seven a eight.
And the maypole, one a two a three a four, whisk.
There you go. We’ll do all that to music for you.
