How to Do a Rumba Box Step Ballroom Dance

Full Playlist - - - Like these Ballroom Dance Lessons !!! Check out the official app Watch more How to Ballroom Dance videos: Aaron: Hey guys its Aaron. Kristina: And Im Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City and today were going to be talking to you a little bit about a dance called the rumba.
So first of all were going to take apart the basic action in this dance and what were going to come up with is what we usually refer to as a box step.
So what were going to do is were going to start with our left leg and were going to start with a step forward and then were going to take our right foot and step directly to the side and then replace our left foot together with our right and taking a step back on our right and then directly to the side on our left stepping together with the right changing our weight and again continuing forward on the left.
And side together back.
And side together forward.
Side together back.
And side together forward.
Now the rumba has its origins in Cuba.
Now this is a Latin dance and we will see a lot of hip action across all of these Latin dances specifically more in this rumba as youre going to see with the bending and straightening of the legs creating a sort of lateral settling of the hips as well as somewhat of a figure eight action that begins to happen that gives us that great Cuban motion.
And back side together forward.
And side together back.
And side together.
Now were going to count this using slows and quicks.
So were going start forward on our left with slow and step quick quick.
Slow quick quick.
Slow quick quick.
Slow and quick quick.
So now lets take a look at that with our partner.
Starting in our closed position with our left to right hand hold somewhere about chin height where its comfortable for both of us and placing our right hand on the ladys left shoulder blade as the lady places her hand on our right shoulder close to our deltoid here.
So starting again with our left foot forward and right foot back for the ladies slow quick quick.
Slow quick quick.
Slow quick quick.
Slow now Im just going to demonstrate how this dance is actually going to rotate as well counter-clockwise to our left quick quick.
Slow quick quick.
Slow quick quick.
Now lets try that with some music.

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