Gary’s Dance Notes

Jive

(1) Basic, underarm turn, reverse underarm turn, basic changing hands.

(2) Windmill (12 3a4 5a6 repeat twice)

After rock step, Men triple forward with left side body forward towards Lady. Then Men triple to side, while use hand to push Lady turn ~180, basically Men in front of Lady, Lady left hand touch Men’s left shoulder. Then Men turn and triple step, now Men should be in the back of the Lady.

Do this again, Men use hand to push Lady turn, Men in front of Lady; then Men turn and triple in the back of Lady. Do one more time.

(3) Do a basic

(4) Two hands hold

Instead of doing a rock step, Men left foot cross in front of right foot, Lady right foot cross in front of left foot. This is on count 1. Hold on 2.

On 3 Men right foot point to floor, close to left foot, on 4 Men right foot heel point to floor and to the side.

On 5 Men right foot cross in front of left foot, hold on 6. On 7 Men left foot point to floor and close to right foot. On 8 left heel point to the side.

Then do a syncopate version: 1234 5678 Exactly the same steps as above.

Then Men keep doing 1 (right foot side) 2 (right foot cross in front of left). Hold on 3. Do &4 move slightly to left for Men while keeping right foot crossing in front of left.

Continue with 5a6 7a8 (just basic steps).

Lady’s step is exactly the mirror image of Men’s step.

Use two hands connection to lead Lady into the proper move.

Intl’ Rumba

Three-three:

(1) Start with basic Men forward, ladies back, 2-3-41

At the end Men close feet, and use left hand to push Ladies natural turn 180 degrees into shadow position. Men left hand on Ladies left shoulder, the other hand disconnect.

(2) Cucaracha with a spin turn 2-3-41

Men cucaracha to the right, Ladies to the left, after 4-1, Men both hands on Ladies shoulder and turn Ladies reverse direction (to her left) for 360 degrees.

(3) Cucaracha 2-3-41&

Men cucaracha to the left, Ladies to the right. At 4-1, Ladies right foot cross in front of left. Then on &, Ladies turn to her right 180 degrees facing Men, don’t change weight.

Note that Men and Ladies should be completely disconnected during the cucaracha.

(4) Ladies walk and turn 2-3-41

Men just do a basic backward. At 4-1, right foot forward. And grab Ladies’ right hand.

On 2 Ladies left foot forward towards Men, while turning 180 to her right on &, now backing Men, her right foot should be in front. On 3, Ladies step forward on right foot. On 4-1, Ladies step forward on left foot. On & Ladies turn to her right for 180 degrees, now facing Men again. At this time Ladies weight should be on her left foot, and right foot pointing forward towards Men. Note that on 4-1 Ladies are walking away from Men, but she should extend her right hand back so Men can grab her right hand.

(5) Ladies do a basic back, Men do a basic forward, 2-3-41. Continue with Alemana.

Hand-to-hand into Aida:

(1) Start with 4-1 to the side, then hand-to-hand 2-3-41, 2-3-41

(2) Continue with another hand-to-hand 2-3-41, but on 41, Men’s left hand should grab Ladies right hand and lead her into a reverse spiral (she turns to her left for 360 degrees while keeping feet in place, just twisting legs, and don’t change weight).

(3) On 2-3, Men walk back two steps, Ladies walk forward (start with her left foot) two steps. On 41, Men step back with right foot, Ladies turn back to counter-promenade position, and step back on her left foot. Men’s right arm, Ladies left arm extend naturally up and above head.

(4) Rock rock rock. 2-3-41

On 2, Men rock onto his left, then on 3 rock back to right, on 41, rock onto left and change direction to open position facing partner, with right foot pointing to his right.

Ladies on 2 rock onto her right foot, then on 3 rock back to left, on 41, rock onto her right while turning 90 degrees to her right, facing Men, with her left foot pointing to her left (her weight should be on her right foot).

(5) Switch turn 2-3-41

Use palm-to-palm connection to lead.