Summary: Learn about the importance of maintaining a connection with your dance partner in West Coast Swing Dance in this free dance lesson video.
Donna Roesel and Eric Jacobson are dance instructors at Dance Manhattan in New York City. Donna’s dance background includes smooth Swing and Social Ballroom, undergraduate training in...read more
"my name is Eric Jacobson and I'm Donna Roesel and we are here in Dance Manhattan Studios in NYC to show you and teach you west coast swing. Ladies as we do the left side pass footwork, we are being lead gently, we're doing our 1 2 we're keeping our connection with our leader by looking pass him. We're still looking at him as we pass 3 and 4, we're turning our 4 and we're tripling 5 and 6 with what we call an anchor connection away from our gentleman. I'm going to do the same thing in this direction so you can see it I have the connection; I'm doing walk walk, my elbow stays nice and relax as I do run run turn triple in place us on the other side."