Salsa: Ocho

Ocho ("eight" in Spanish) is a combination when first a leader does a right turn and after him a follower does a right turn too, thus "drawing" a fugure 8 on the dance floor. There may be a several combination: a partner leaves his hand on waist level, or does an under-arm turn, or when the follower turns the leader may do a half turn to lead "no look walk through" after it.

There are several dances on DanceTuts where ocho salsa figure is tagged. On the video below it is nicely combined with several other intermediate salsa moves. You may watch this video with moves subtitled here.



The video is by "Latin Dance Factory" dance school from Houston, Texas. (YouTube user latindancefactory). They have a nice collection of intermediate level tutorials. Here is another one with moves subtitled. There they have "ocho" move too, followed by "no look walk through".

Beyonce's Single Ladies

Some hip hop videos are now on the site.

On the video below Michelle Hillier explains the moves from Beyonce's video clip "Single Ladies".

Jazz: Step Touch

We will be filling jazz dance moves section on the site. Most of the jazz dance instructional videos on YouTube are from expertvillage. Here is a basic one introducing to step touch move

Salsa: Cross-body lead 360

During cross-body lead 360 partners turn 360 degrees (some teachers call the move 360 turn). It is well explained in the video below by YouTube user G0tchaman

Salsa: Copa

In the previous post a move copa was added to complete the pattern with other more complicated turns. Silvia Stoyanova on the video below dedicates several minutes to explain details of the move to the very beginners. The combination they show is completed with a simple haircomb to return hands from crossed to basic open position.



Silvia is a dance teacher from Chicago. More information about her school can be found at www.salsawithsilvia.com. She posted several videos on YouTube that may be interesting for beginners. For more information about salsa lessons, clubs and events around Chicago a website www.salsachicago.com is a good starting point.

Salsa: Windmill

Anthony Persaud is an Internet salsa superstar. He is best known for his blog addicted2salsa.com for which he posted numerous detailed videos lessons on YouTube.

We added the video below to dancetuts collection because of a move windmill Anthony demonstrates together with Julie Merrill (originally posted on addicted2salsa). The move may be considered as a fancy styling variation of a cross-body lead with outside turn. Anthony completes the pattern with what he calls hourglass copa (a stylistic modification of normal copa) and finishes with cross-body lead 180. In the second part of the video Julie gives advice on ladies’ styling techniques. The video is the first lesson filmed by Anthony in HD (press HD button if your connection is fast enough).

Bachata: Inside Turn

Inside turn is a natural next bachata step for a beginner to learn after basic step that we discussed earlier. The embeded video below is also from http://www.expertvillage.com (expertvillage on YouTube). They show the turn both to the right and the left.