Face 1 o'clock and stand in a square stance. On the first beat, take a step to the right with your left foot and shift your weight to your left foot. On the second beat, take a step to the left with the right foot, and shift the center of gravity to the right foot. On the third beat, the left foot pulls back one step to the left. On the fourth beat, take a step back with your right foot.
Cross Step Exercise
Instructions
Preparatory Position: Facing 1 o'clock, stand in small eights, press palms beside hands.
In bars 1-8, walk in cross-steps (four times) while swinging your arms naturally.
Levels 9-12: press the root of the foot in small eights four times, and press the palm beside both hands.
Sections 13-20 are the same as sections 1-8.
Subsections 21-24: press the foot in the small eights position four times, at the same time the upper body is divided into a right-left turn (keeping the palms pressed next to each other), and the last beat is facing 1 point.
Movement Tips
The Cross Step is a basic step commonly used in Han folk dance. When practicing it, students should pay attention to make their movements coordinated and their steps even.
When pressing the heel, the body should be kept upright, and the chest should be lifted and the abdomen should be closed.
When you first learn it, you can draw a cross in front of your feet to help students master the cross step.
Expanded:
Benefits of Dance
Dance gives a curvaceous figure and tighter thigh and arm muscles. Dance is also a great way to relieve emotions. Dance is a good physical and mental health activities, enhance physical fitness, personality becomes cheerful, the body becomes soft, the overall stimulation of muscles. Dance's stimulation of muscles is comprehensive and integrated, and its movements take into account the head, neck, chest, legs, hips and other parts of the body.
For example, jazz dance has more movement on small joints and muscles, which are not easy to move to in regular fitness. In addition, the dance also has the effect of aerobic exercise, so that the practitioner to improve the main lung function at the same time, to achieve the purpose of weight loss.
In dance, the continuous movement is very fast-paced, and a whole set of movements is coherent and smooth, neat and rhythmic, which is very helpful for the exercise of musicality and dexterity. And its fun nature makes it easy to concentrate and focus, ignoring exercise fatigue.
The fitness movements of dance are explosive and have a strong developmental potential for the human body, because dance is mostly based on movements around small joints, so it can better improve the coordination of the practitioners. Dance is a highly expressive movement, and through dance classes, practitioners develop confidence and temperament while expressing themselves.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Dance (Performing Arts)