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.

Salsa: Cuddle

Cuddle is a position when partners stand side by side. One can get to and out of this position in many ways. One example is the move Kentucky that we discussed couple of days ago. Some other variation that already featured on the dancetuts website are cuddle left turn, whip turn into cuddle and cuddle tunnel.

The video from Johnny Griffith (gottaswing5678 on YouTube) has several salsa moves for beginners, including a couple with a cuddle

Charleston: Basic step

The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Very detailed information about the dance can be found in the Wikipedia article about charleston, the basic step is well described in the Charleston part of Swing Dancing Wiki-book.

Video below shows basic step both for face-to-face and side-to-side dancing



The video is from the collection of social dance videos of YouTube user itsaboutmomentum for a school in Van Buren, Arkansas, Momentum Dance Concepts. We already featured a video from them dedicated to lindy circle.

Zouk: Basic step

Zouk is a dance similar to bachata which is danced to music originated in Caribbean islands. It is especially popular in French speaking countries and Brazil.

The basic step in the video below is well explained by Perle Lama, a French singer originally from the West Indies. It is posted on YouTube channel Pasquino52 for a zouk website in Italy.