Showing posts with label swing dance tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swing dance tutorial. Show all posts

Sunday 7 October 2012

Video Vault: Stop-Spin in ECS


I remember this move being a part of my tap dance choreography two years ago, except it was in an 8-count variation to fast paced music from Hairspray.

I couldn't really note the intricacies in executing this move at that point in time (as a leader) because tap dance, being a solo dance, conditioned us to move on our own all the time. So, even though our instructor told the follows to only allow the guy or leader to spin them, more often than not they were auto-piloting.

I didn't notice that there had to be a twisting motion as seen in 0:55 in the video. This should build up the momentum needed to do the stop-spin motion. If you're parallel to your partner, you're more likely to use force to spin the follow (or they're auto piloting to make you look good in a performance.) I'm also beginning to notice that this twisting motion is quite common in other partner dances that requires spinning like a salsa combo that I learnt & followed the past 3 weeks.

Saturday 26 May 2012

Tutorial Treasuries: Shawn Trautman's series







Now this is an interesting find, Shawn Trautman seems to have a strong trainer background, and there have been positive reviews of his dance videos. One such review can be found here on a YouTube video:





Their review is pretty general, but I'm already thinking about getting the DVDs especially knowing that my following techniques aren't strong and in this review she said that it helped her. So if anyone's thinking of buying the DVDs the links are on the slideshow above for convenience.