For a Cásate, “Get Married”, walk in real life, the Lead can put his arm over and around the Follow’s arm or, just as good, the Lead’s arm can get under and around. In social dancing the Lead should normally always put his arm over and around because that makes it easier to disengage again by turning the Follow out
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The Echeverría twists are popular in Rueda de Casino mostly done from Guapea that doesn’t work that well in social dancing. Also it is an unusual basic figure most Follows don’t expect in social dancing and for that reason it is a little difficult to lead. I have made another tutorial about the basics of Echeverría, called Echeverría in social
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Both Vacilala and Enchufla are often continued into Rodeo. This continuation can be done already on the last part of the two figures, on “5-6-7”, or the Rodeo can start on the next “1-2-3”. Sometimes the Rodeo figure is hard to recognize. It is more like a “walk around the Lead” figure, “por Detràs” (behind). But both Vacilala por Detrás
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Double turns are one of a relatively small number of ways to put the spotlight on the Follow and make her stand out. This is important because only if the Lead manages to make the Follow do extraordinary things can he himself also do extraordinary things without stealing the show, as is, sadly to say, very common for Leads from
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Echeverria and Echeverria con Vuelta are common and popular calls in Rueda de Casino, done in Open Position from Guapea. This doesn’t work that well in social dancing for two reasons. Firstly, it is a little difficult to lead. Secondly, the Rueda type of “forward-and-back” Guapea should not be used in social dancing. At least, I don’t use it, and
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The Dile Que No basic figure is unique as the only common figure bringing the Follow and the Lead into the start position of Open Position. For the Follow, the last part of Dile Que No is an exception to the rule of first pivoting around at the end of a three step walk on “3-4” or on “7-8”, always
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We should use named moves, with a start and an ending, small mini-dances, as little as possible. We should focus on basic figures of one count of eight in order to have as small building blocks as possible. The smaller the building blocks the easier it is to improvise and be music driven. At almost any moment, for each count
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In social dancing we should only use so-called moves as an exception to the rule. A named move, often with a silly name, is a combination of basic figures with an added beginning and ending in order to give us a self-contained mini-dance that normally starts with Guapea in Open Position and ends with Dile Que No and back into
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The Adiós basic figure, “tight turning” around one axis like a carousel, is one of the greatest of all basic figures. It is universal, used more or less the same in very many styles of social dancing as well as in Ball Room standard dances. Despite its popularity, it doesn’t go by a common name! The best descriptive name is
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We need a Coca-Cola turn on “5-6-7” in order to continue with Enchufla on “1”. It is a great combination of two basic figures but the transition on “7-1” between Coca-Cola in counter clock-wise circular motion and Enchufla in clock-wise circular motion is difficult. It is made more difficult by the fact that most Follows expect to continue the Coca-Cola
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