Cowboy dance originated in the United States, by a kind of dance called "Jitterbug" development, cowboy dance eliminated "Jitterbug" in all the difficult movements, increased some skills. So, how to practice the basic steps of cowboy dance? Let me tell you!
Basic horizontal steps
Preparatory movements: cowboy dance is very important to the body's bouncing, the knees should be relaxed slightly curved, you can do a little relaxation of the knees before jumping; in the case of the ladies, men can do the opposite action.
1: the right foot to the right a small step, the inside of the foot on the ground, the center of gravity in the right foot;
2: the left foot to the right foot at the same time, bend the knees;
1: the right foot to the right a small step, the palm of the inside of the foot on the ground, the knees to restore;
A2: the left foot to the right foot after the right foot to the right side of the right foot quickly pop up, the knees are bent;
1: the left foot to the same place to the ground, the palm of the inside of the foot, the knee is bending!
1: left foot to the ground, the inside of the foot on the ground, the center of gravity shifted to the left foot;
A2: after the right foot to the left foot, the left foot quickly popped to the left side, knee bending;
and then do the opposite direction of the action, and so repeated for 2 bars, the beginner should be practiced more, in order to maintain the bouncing nature of the step must be less;
cowboy dance is the basic dance step
The first step:
Left knee and right knee close to the left foot, left foot buckle, both knees should be slightly bent, the left foot heel should be raised.
Step 2:
Bend the right foot, straighten the left knee and lock it, and you've completed a chasing step.
Note: this step has a chase step, it mainly relies on the knee and hip force, to drive the foot movement, so pay attention to the knee area to have a sense of tightness from time to time.
Step 3:
Kick your left foot out to the left, and bring your right foot and knee closer together.
Step 4:
Lock your right knee and bend your left knee to move one step to the left.
Step 5:
The man steps to the side with his right foot, crosses over with his left foot, and bends his left knee when his right foot is planted.
Women step sideways with left foot and cross with right foot, bend right knee.
Step 6:
Men's right foot and left foot together, read the foot and quickly pop the left foot.
The woman does the opposite.
Step 7:
Turn your body sideways and the man kicks his right foot and crosses over his left foot.
The woman kicks her left foot and crosses her right foot.
What is Cowboy Dance
Also known as Jet Dance. It is one of the Latin dance programs, and is represented by the J. Cowboy dance is originally a kind of tap dance of cowboys in the western United States, which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s. During the Second World War, American soldiers brought the cowboy dance to the United Kingdom, due to the impact of the war, people's mood to have fun in time, resulting in the development of cowboy dance to the point of madness.
Cowboy dance style characteristics
Cowboy originated from the United States black dance, is a fast-paced, exhausting dance. It was spread by American sailors in World War II. The melody is cheerful, strong jumping, the rhythm is 4/4 beat, 42 to 44 bars per minute, six beat jump eight steps. It is a combination of basic steps, parallel steps, jumps and rotations. It requires the feet to be on the ground and the waist and hips to swing in a pendulum style. It is characterized by agile steps, jumping, and relaxed, enthusiastic and cheerful dance posture. Originally from the United States, the original American western cowboys tap dance, the popularity of jazz music in the 50s, accelerated and perfected this dance, but the style of the western cowboys to maintain the robust, romantic, bold style.
How to dance a good cowboy dance
Learning different dance styles should be grasped from the whole of the local, in a full understanding of the origins of the dance types, styles, characteristics and the dancers through the body language of the dance movements, the brain retains a certain image, and then practicing the basic rhythms of the dance, learning the basic movements of the dance in order to truly understand how to properly complete the dance movements. You will be able to truly understand how to complete the dance movements correctly and the unique style of the dance. Cowboy Dance is one of the five types of Latin Dance, and its style is unique and the form of accomplishing the movement is very different. Usually, dancers in the study of cowboy dance before the contact or already skilled rumba and cha-cha-cha dance dance movements and styles, in the beginning of the cowboy dance will habitually bring the hips of the rotation, but on the contrary, in the study of the cowboy dance should be treated as a brand new dance, emphasizing the cowboy dance the most important characteristics of the relaxation of the knees and ankles and the elasticity generated by the force. How to correctly master the elasticity of cowboy dance? The elasticity of Cowboy Dance comes from the pressure of the body on the floor, which expresses the power through the relaxation and force of the knees and ankles.
Instead of bouncing upwards, the focus of rodeo elasticity is to put pressure on the floor and fall downwards as if in "free fall", which then naturally creates upward elasticity.
Cowboy dance 'dance points
Dance cowboy dance left and right and step, but also add the hips "hip" action, otherwise it will lose a lot of charm. Dance cowboy dance left and right and step when the crotch is to swing left and right, a lot of people dance, no crotch action, even if the rhythm is right, the second step and the essentials of the leg is also right, it does not look good.
For example, in the left parallel step, the hips should be swung to the left, and the hips should be left in the third step. For a rightward merging step, the hips swing to the right, and the hips come out to the right on the third step. Of course, other auxiliary steps are also crotch swing, can refer to the crotch swing in the rumba, but in the cowboy dance crotch does not need to be like the rumba as the requirements of the rotation, as long as a little left and right swing on the line.
The pace of cowboy dance must be small, almost in place, otherwise it is difficult to keep up with the rhythm in the fast rhythm. Teachers usually do demonstrations, the steps are very large, because small students can not see clearly, but really with the rhythm of the dance, the steps must be small.
Although the cowboy dance is joyful and enthusiastic, giving people the feeling of elasticity, jumping feeling is very strong, in fact, can not really jump up, jump up the feeling is only a kind of illusion, to press the body to jump, otherwise it is really like jumping God.
Rhythmic beat
2/4 or 4/4, each bar has 2 or 4 beats. Six beats for a dance step. Slow, slow, fast, ah, slow, fast, ah, slow. 40-44 measures per measure.
Names of the steps
1. Turn turn, turn
2 .Whole Turn Whole Turn, 360 degree turn
3 .Half Turn 1/2 turn 180 degree turn
4. Quarter Turn 1/4 turn 90 degree turn
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5. Fallaway Rock Fallaway Throwaway Fallaway Throwaway Fallaway Throwaway Step
7. Link Rock and Link Link Rock and Link Link Step Link Rock and Link Step
8. Change of Places left to Right Left to Right Change of Places left to Right
8. Change of Places left to right
9. Change of Places Right to Left
10. Change of Hands Behind Back
11. American Spin American Spin
12. The Walks Walking
13. The Whip Whip Throwaway
14. Whip Throwaway Rapid Whip Throwaway
15. Stop and Go Stop and Go
16. Windmill Windmill
17. Spanish Arms
18. Rolling off the Arm
19. Simple Spin
20 .Chicken Walks Chicken Walks Retreats
21 .Curly Whip Wave Whip Steps
22 . Heel Swivels Toe, Heel Swivels
23 .Flicks into Break Tap into Break