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Steps: rumba (social rumba,
american rumba)
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Our sailor has been on the Pacific to
We dance for the pleasure so you are free to select a
relaxed informal hold etc.
Start: all
couples stand in the line of dance (lod) after one another: Lady (L) to the
right of Gent (G). Every second couple turn around so 2 couples face one
another: in the big lod circle in the ballroom (or in a long straight line). L
stands to the right of her G and faces her corner G = the opposite G. At the
end of the dance G+L has moved forward to face a new couple.
The dance
consists of 4 parts: circle, couple dance with corner, couple dance with
partner, change to new opposite couple:
1 circle of the 2 couples, clockwise and
anticlockwise, walking steps or rumba steps
2 rumba couple dance with corner: basic
steps and twinkle
3 rumba couple dance with own partner:
basic steps and opening
4 change place by walking through opposite
couple and face the new couple
bar no
1-16 Big circle, holding hands,
clockwise and anticlockwise walking steps or rumba steps.
17-18 Couple dance with corner: 2 basic
steps, close hold.
19-20 Twinkle steps to both sides.
21-22 2 basic steps.
23 G and corner L dance from one
another with a step backwards, L right hand (rh) in G left hand (lh):
24 G rh to own partner L lh : step
towards each other.
25-26 Close hold with own partner: 2 basic
steps.
27 Opening (hand to hand): face
opposite: G ¼ turn left: step back left foot (lf), L ¼ turn right: step back
right foot (rf).
28 Opening: back towards 2 couple
centre, face the former opposite couple.
29-32 Change over to face a new couple: rh
to opposite (= corner) rumba-walk: G lf walk slow, rf walk quick, lf
close to rf quick; L: mirror
reflected.
Rumba:
We here dance the common rumba, ”social rumba”, as it
previously was danced in
We count: slow quick
quick, on 1-2, 3, 4 (while modern (English) rumba counts quick quick slow, on 2, 3, 4-1 (see the
dance "Cuban wriggle").
(This is USA West Coast rumba.
(The rumba basic steps here are described (as reverse
square) by: Akrill: Social Dance: The Cuban Rumba - often called the classic
dance of all the Latin dances - has been popular in its country of origin,
Cuba, for over 400 years).
Rumba basic
steps:
We count to 4 in a bar slow quick quick on 1-2, 3, 4.
G: left foot (lf) walk forward slow, right foot (rf) to the side of lf quick, lf close to rf quick.
Close hold; L follows G.
G: rf foot step back slow, lf to the side of rf quick,
rf close to lf quick. L follows G.
With these 2 basic steps we have walked a box (a small
square).
This box is walked somewhat likewise in standard
waltz, only in waltz (in meter 3/4) alle 3 steps are of equal length 1, 2, 3.
Twinkle:
Close but loose hold, both: lf walk forward slow so both have left side to one
another and lf past one another; then weight to rf quick; then lf to the left quick.
Then change to the left side of one another with rf forward and right side
towards one another etc.
Opening:
Close hold is opened: G turns ¼ left and L turns ¼
right: G steps back on lf, L steps back on rf slow, G rh around L waist, so
both face to G’s originally left side, then weight on G rf L lf quick, then
turn to face each other, close feet quick. Equivalent opening to the other side,
G right side.
Hand pull:
Close hold is released: G lets right arm hold go and
both step and turn a little away from each other with pulling in G lh and L rh:
G lf back slow, rf to the side quick, lf close to rf quick; L mirror reflected.
In the next rumba step we can normally dance towards
one another again to close hold. But in this dance we use this figure to part
from corner to join own partner in bar 24.
The melody here is intended for easy learning the
dance (a pedagogical, educational melody), with one note pr dance step, also in
the alternative melody "Long long ago”.
Accordion: beats pr bar: 2 + 2.
These rumba figures can be seen explained (in English,
USA West Coast) by Kyle & Susan Webb: Ballroom Waltz, Rumba, Cha cha (DVD
Lyngby Library).
Book: Daniel Lopez: Salsa