Summary: Rotate strongly on your heel for your heel toe hops. Learn how to do hip hop traveling movements from a professional teacher in this free dance video.
Emily Larew is a professional dancer and dance instructor. Her education includes studying at LA’s The Edge and Millennium dance studios. She has performed for various music awards,...read more
"Hi, I'm Emily Larew and we're now going to look at heel toes traveling a little bit more with a hop. So, what we're going to do--pulling up my pants again. We're going to take our right foot and cross over. Our toes again are lifted, you're pressing your weight into that heel. From there, what you're going to do is you're going to put all your weight on that front foot, and you're going to move it over to the side. All right, so try it again. We're going to go heel in front, right foot, go over to the side. Almost like you're flying, all right. So, heel, step over. From there, you're going to bring your right foot in and you'll replace it with your left foot, so the left toes are up, you're digging your weight into the front again with your heel. Fly over, and stop. Step right foot, soar over, step left and hold, over together, right and hold. So now let's put it just a little bit faster. Ready, here we go, seven, eight, so we're going to go right, over, jump left, all right. Let's do it again. Here we go. Ready, five, six, seven, eight. So, right, left, right, left. Do a little about change. From there you're going to soar over. All that you're going to do is pick up that left foot and jump left right. Ready, let's keep continuing, here we go. Over, right left, over left right, over right left, over left right. All right, so now let's speed that up a little bit. We're going to put our hand on our hips, you're just going to fold them over, ready here we go. So we're going to go over and right left, left right, right left, left right, right left, and seven and eight. And a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So to speed that up you've just got to be able to make your steps smaller and add a little bit more enthusiasm into it. And those are your heel toes with your hops."