How to Do Partner Bachata Dance Turns

Video Transcript

"So, we're into our Bachata partnering. We did the side basic, forward and back basic. Now, we're going to actually take you into what the turns look like in the partnering. Let's take it, actually, from a side angle to you can see. Here's our basic, one, two, three, and, five, six, seven, now we're going to prep for the turn, and five, six, seven, eight. How I prepped for the turn. The first thing was, is that I came out of my closed position on my one, two, three. Watch. As I step one, two, three, four. Did you see I backed away with my feet a little bit to create space and my arm left the back, came down and caught on the hands. All of that has to happen in one, two, three, four. By four, you have to have both the hands here. Also, by four, I'm lifting this hand and turning my hand so that we are palm to palm. Watch again. I'm lifting and turning. This indicates that a turn and my fingers are pointing in the direction for her turn, telling her exactly which way to go. Now, she does the basic turn steps that were in the previous clip. She steps right, left, right, hip. And, the leader is just continuing his basic, left, right, left. He's leading the turn with his hand at the same time. So, from the top. It goes, one, two, three, four, this is our basic. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and. Notice we connected right back after the turn. Now to continue, she just did her turn, what if the leader wants to turn? He might want to turn too, you know. It's got to be equal here, this is Bachata, so. Now, how he's going to turn, it will be right after her turn. It's going to look like this, watch. One, two, three she turns, five six, seven, now he turns. One, two, three, four, five, and we come right back into closed position. So again, let me show you the whole thing now. No, let me break down his turn first. So, she just turned. Now, to let her know that you're going to turn you don't reconnect here. So, if you're going to add that turn in, don't reconnect because watch. As you're turning, she's going to do her basic, the leader is going to step right. Now, look at what I'm doing, I'm placing her hand actually on my rib cage as I'm giving her my back, left, right. She's going to be doing her basic steps. So, again, step right, left, right, hip. Now I'll show it from the top. Five, six, seven, goes. One, two, three, four, here's our basic. And one, two, three, four, here's her turn. My turn right away, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And i come to closed position right after. That's our basic Bachata turns. She turned then he turned, and they you have it."