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Summary: Lead with your heel on your brush offs. Learn how to do brush offs in intermediate hip hop dancing.
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 going to continue on with our intermediate hip hop combination. We're on second count of 8, counts 1 through 4. Alright, what we're going to do is we just finished our walk through and we did left, right, left, right, left. So we're here. You're going to start walking forward with your right foot, and I really want you to lead with your heel, okay? So as we walk, we're going to walk 1, 2. So don't walk like you're on your way to school or the grocery store or whatever. You don't want to go 1, 2. Make it a little bit more cool, sassy, whatever your gender is. So we've got 5, 6, 7, 8, two walks, 2. From there you'll step out on your right foot and you're going to go 3 -and put your hip into it- 4, alright? So again, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4. Good. As you step out on your right foot now, what I want you to do is you're going to brush off your shoulder. There's a speck of dust, you're getting it off your shoulder. And then as you step to the left, your right hand is going to brush off your left shoulder. Alright? And, as you do that, you're going to lean right, put your left hand on your hip, over as you dust it off. So it's flipped over, right on your hip. So try that again, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4. Good. Start from the top. Here we go, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4. Good. That was our first count of 8...second count of 8, counts 1 through 4, intermediate hip hop combination."
eHow Article: Brush Offs in Intermediate Hip Hop Dancing