Demonstration and decomposition of basic steps of Rumba Dance
Whether from a physical, psychological or social point of view, Latin dancing is one of the best choices. Here is a basic teaching of rumba.
Rumba and cha cha:
1. Naturally and easily stand close to each other, with the heels close and the toes open at about 90 degrees.
2. Keep your chest straight and your spine straight. Don't shrug your shoulders.
3. Take a step to the side of any foot, straighten the other foot supporting the center of gravity, and move all the weight to this one, so that the pelvis can move to the side, so as to feel the weight on the heel of the supporting foot, and lock the knee backward. As for the range of pelvic movement, the upper body posture should not be affected.
Samba and jetberry:
1. Naturally and easily stand close to each other, with the heels close and the toes open at about 90 degrees.
2. Keep your chest straight and your waist straight. Don't shrug your shoulders.
3. Take one step out of any foot, straighten the other foot supporting the center of gravity, and move all the weight onto this foot, so that the weight moves forward to the front sole of the foot, and the heel of the back heel is still not off the floor, and the knee of the supporting foot cannot be locked backward. Some dance steps are exceptions, such as the fractional rock step, the backward step and the curl step in samba, and the chicken walk in jetberry.
As there is no movement of bony disc or buttocks in Spanish bullfight dance, the differences between its posture and the above Latin dances are as follows:
1. The bony disc tilts forward slightly, the upper body is straight and strong.
2. The weight is evenly borne by both feet.
3. When the feet are straight, the knees should not be fastened back. One exception is Spanish dancing.
position
The orientation at the bottom of the chart is used to illustrate the direction of the dancer's body facing or back facing in the dance room. When we guide (lateral) with shoulder, the correct orientation is very important.
Rumba, Chacha and jetberry are non progressive dances, while samba and Spanish bullfight are progressive dances.
Degree of rotation
In Latin dancing, the feet are never parallel unless they are close together. Most of the foot rotation like this is outward rotation, which is just the foot rotation with all or part of its weight. It belongs to "passive rotation" or the corresponding action of the foot. As a result, in the dance, the rotation of the feet and the upper body are mostly different. The most typical examples are the second step of sweeping step in samba, the restrained forward step in rumba and Cha Cha, and all the backward steps in rumba and cha cha.
Therefore, when a dance step is finished, when the center of gravity driven by the foot is different from the direction of the body, the rotation of the upper body shall prevail, not the foot. In rumba and cha cha dances, the foot that drives the center of gravity will have about 1 / 16 turn outward under the rate of the backward step itself. This kind of rotation, which is caused by the need to stabilize the body's center of gravity, is called "passive rotation".
