How to Do Basic Swing Dance Steps | Ballroom Dance

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Aaron: Hey guys, I'm Aaron.

Kristina: And I'm Kristina.

Aaron: We're professional ballroom dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we're going to be talking to you about a little dance we call the swing, also what we refer to in the ballroom world as East Coast Swing. So what we're going to be doing is starting taking a look at the basic action. So gentlemen, let's take apart our footwork.

What we're doing, guys, is we're always starting with our left leg, and what we're going to be starting this dance with is what we call a link step or a rock step. Taking our left leg and rocking it behind, one, two. And then following this up with a triple step action going side, together, side, and then repeating that with our right leg to our right, side, together side. And then following that up again, rock step, one two three, one two three, rock step. Now Kristina is going to demonstrate the ladies' part.

Kristina: Alright. So, ladies, we are going to start with our right foot in the rock step. So we're going to take our right foot and step behind, replace, that's our one, two. And then slide to the right, three and four, five and six. Again, one, two, three and four, five and six.

Aaron: Now we're going to talk a little bit about the different hand holds we're going to be using in the swing. For starters we're going to be using a bit of a modified hold here from what we're used to in most of our ballroom dances where gentlemen we're actually going to place our thumb on top of the lady's hand and bring it down to about waist level. Here we're also going to be slightly turned out as this dance has a lot of rotational action that we're going to see right away as we rock step.

Now there are several other types of holds as well. We're also going to be using a double hand hold, a single hand hold, and an open position, as well as a handshake hold that you'll see will get us into several more of our advanced patterns. Now let's take a look at that basic action again together, one more time. And, one, two, three and four, five and six. One, two, three and four, five and six. One, two. And now let's try that with music.
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Excellent jive tutorial and both great dancers. I always regret not learning these steps when I was younger back in the 50s and 60s. Thank You so much for a great video. Barrie Owen UK.

barrieowen
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Learnt from just watching the videos. Aaron and kristina are very good instructors . Both are very fit and good looking. Unfortunate that trolls prefer to make nasty personal comments. Even more unfortunate that they are no longer in New York.

mohanjacob
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I’ve been doing dancing classrooms in my school which is ballroom dancing and of my favorite dances is the swing and the tango

rachel-ngzi
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Great video for learning the basics! Thanks for making this, guys.

Nosedruul
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Aaron and Kristina, you're the best!

spiralenajones
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ok well my ballroom instructor taught me a diff way but i like them both so thx for showing me another way

AmyaG
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This dance is so much fun. Fellas, ladies love it, so learn and get to it with your gal pal. :)

Jolene
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I'm watching this as a 33 year old lonely male, just because I hope to overcome the fear to dance on the next wedding I attend. Women always ask me but I have to decline because I'm too fearful of dancing in public and also because I'm actually so lonely that it hurts to be physically close to someone. I just can camouflage my loneliness well.

bakkermaarten
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I know this by heart because when I was younger my mom would play ballroom music because she liked it and she would make me and my brother do it with her

lauraortiz
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Please make a video comparing contrasting this step with the Jive step. They look essentially the same. I know the dances vary in the style of how one moves the body etc but it’s very similar and basically the same count.

pundoorasbox
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Great tutorial...in Boro...keep watching...

johnmoreland
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What song is played, I love the song at the end.

KevinRodriguez-tzmx
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i believe you alicia, what channel or videos do you recommend then?

thejmeable
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okay this is gre a t . Swing Dancing is great.
i
enjoyed this video a lot
because of there feet and leg 7 7

ssara
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I like the


Can i ask a question what's the music?

senpaikuro
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I'm taking dancing lessons as well, but we call that the Jive xD
(I don't know if it's the right spelling. I also don't know if it's called the Jive worldwide, because I'm from Germany lol)

jackolin
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What is the title of the music used?
I need this for my performance task in Physical Education

robinizarbordo
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doing this for year 10 dance, yeah i need extra help before i embarrass myself

ocean_ah
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This guy's neck reminds me of Little Foot

zachbuddie
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Haha reminds me of ballroom e youkoso. He characters in that anime have long necks.

Aznboii