A Complete Guide to the Basic Steps of Ballroom Dancing
The core basic step of the National Standard Slow Waltz is the square step.
The square step: upright, left foot in, right foot across, then left foot and to the right foot, so alternating, is the square step. Square step in the slow waltz in the status of the supreme, equivalent to the capital of Beijing. It is much higher than other steps.
1, it is the basic work of the national standard.
2, the person opposite to the stick, can still be left and right can walk, can also turn.
The core basic step of ballroom dancing, people have had trouble getting rid of the square step nightmare for centuries. The square step is too good to be true, so it is sacrosanct in the eyes of dancers. So people desperately tried to figure out how to transform the square step into a square step for ballroom dancing. But all failed because the square step is only good if you carry the national standard feats with you. When you give up the feats, it's hard to see. This step is one of the basic steps, but not the core basic step, because it can only be done in one direction, and cannot be done on both sides like the square step. It is impossible to conceive that a mature dance can only turn on one side, like a donkey pulling a mill. How can you dance a half-drawn dance?
After the failure of the efforts to reform the square step, someone had a flash of insight: not simply imitate the form of the square step, but look at the function. The function of the square step is to walk on both sides, so which step of the social dance can do it?
Thus, the zigzag step has been on the stage of history.
The word step: two people opposite, a man into the left foot to his right female left, the second right foot to the right side of the male 45-degree angle into the three back to the center line, the foot biased male left, conducive to the next step. Then the male into the right foot to their own left female right side, walk the same way, to the other side of 45 degrees. Female progress and male essentials with. This is a folded line, called "zigzag step". It is also called "zigzag step", that is, walking three steps at a time on one side. Step size decision can be turned, called "the word step turn", there are positive and negative two turns.
The word step is not a new invention, the ancient waltz is the word step to turn, so the roots are right. Social justice distance between the two social dance so that the word step can walk out, sticking to the word step can not go. The foot is still a heel and two toes. To the side on, the best swing hips on, so that the action is big, swing up also look good. This step is mainly swing, undulation, tilt, wave, swing rotation five characteristics, the word step is mainly swing.
This footwork is extremely difficult to play the national standard is not good, a little fake are not mixed, very much in need of basic skills, and is hard work.
In terms of the character step, there are three kinds of large, medium and small: 30 degrees foot step for the big character step, 45 degrees for the middle, said the character step generally refers to the middle of the character step. 60 degrees for the small, not much swinging, but to catch up.
In this way, to the word step as the core of the basic step of social dance slow three established - this is the world of social dance in the last 60 years of achievements.
Ten Tips for Good Social Dance
1. Elegant demeanor comes from upright posture
2. The display of style shows the pursuit of beauty
3. The premise of tacit cooperation is self-balance
4. The lead dancer's `highest skill is the use of the whole body
5. Improving musicality is the way to make the dance attractive
6. "Leaping" is the fundamental way to get rid of the "walking" form
7. Side technique is the bridge to perfect flow
8. Ideal lifting must eliminate the ladder transition
9. Tilt is a multi-functional means of skill
10. Center of gravity transfer technique is "no trace"
Expanded reading: Basic etiquette for social dancing
A person who pays attention to socializing, ballroom dancing is an indispensable "mandatory" course. So social dancing, like judo and other sports that require interaction, has its own cultural etiquette, and observing these etiquettes during the dance is a sign of respect for your partner, as well as respect for the audience.
The following is a brief introduction to basic etiquette:
(a) Men and women, even if they do not know each other, but as long as they participate in the dance, they can invite each other. Usually, the man takes the initiative to invite the woman to **** dance.
(2) to invite the dance, the man should walk to the front of the woman in a dignified manner, bent over and bowed, and at the same time softly smiled and said: "I would like to ask you to dance, can I?" Bending over at about fifteen degrees is appropriate and should not be excessive. Excessive, on the contrary, will have the suspicion of indecent.
(3) When you are interested in inviting a woman you do not know to dance, you must first carefully observe whether she has a boyfriend to dance. If so, it's not a good idea to invite them to the dance floor to avoid misunderstandings.
(4) Under normal circumstances, two women can dance together, but two men can not dance together. In Europe and the United States, two women with the dance, is to declare that they have no male partner in the scene; and two men with the dance, it means that they are not willing to dance to the presence of the female partner invited, which is disrespectful to the female, but also very impolite. Therefore, only when the two young women have been in the dance floor spinning dance, the two young men to take the same dance way, follow them to their side, and then *** with the same to them to dance, and then respectively combined into two pairs.
(E) If the woman invites the male partner, the male partner shall not refuse. After the end of the music, the male partner should send the female partner to her original seat, to be seated, say: "Thank you, goodbye!" Then only then can he leave. Do not ignore after the dance.
(F) invitations should be modest and natural expression, not nervous and pretentious, so as to make people resentful. But not to be vulgar, such as holding a cigarette to ask people to dance, which will affect the good atmosphere of the dance.
(G) men accompanying women dancing, both sides of the action to be generous and decent, relative to the stand, set up a good grip on the dance, the distance between the two should be maintained about a fist and a half, to avoid arousing each other's resentment. Men should never pull the lady too close, and the left hand should not be held too tightly. The distance between the two is too close, easy to cause women to think that the intention is to embrace, seems to be indecent suspicion, this point should pay special attention to.
(H) dance, men do not ask the name and understand each other in what units, taboo said 3 Road 4, ask long and short. Temporarily do not want to dance, you can walk outside the field, pay attention to the beauty of language. When you dance, you should not look around, but concentrate on the dance. After a dance song is over, then thank your female partner and exit the dance floor. The man should politely escort the woman back to her original seat. When two men ask a woman to dance at the same time, it is important to show courtesy.
(IX) men invited to dance, the lady can not ignore, not to mention the pretentious, head to the sky, disdain, and even snorting at the nose, refused to people outside of the country, which is uncivilized, do not know how to behave politely. In case you don't want to jump, you should smile and state your reasons. For example, "I'm sorry, I've been jumping continuously and I'm physically exhausted." In this case, the man should not force himself. Instead, the man should be a gentleman and say, "I apologize for disturbing you." , with no unpleasant facial expression, not to mention bad language. After a woman refuses a man's invitation to dance, she can't accept another man's invitation right away.