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Summary: There are countless tap dance moves and combinations like the pickup skip. Learn how to do a pickup skip tap dance move from our expert dancer in this free video clip on beginning tap 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, continuing now with our intermediate tap combination, counts five through eight. We are on our right foot, what we're going to do from here is we're going to pickup skip. So pickup skip is on your right foot, and you're going to land on your left, alright. And again we're still traveling towards stage left the corner, so we have three and four, we have and a five and a six. So we just want you to let go of your arms and swing them opposite like it would feel natural to walk, okay. So three and a four you have and a five and a six, you're going to do two flaps side by side, and a seven. So make sure, it's almost like you're in second position, here, and they are just two flaps, make them floppy like a penguin. So going flap, flap, be flap, flap. Keep your knees straight, alright. And they're going out to the side. So we have, three and four and a five and a six, seven, you're going to throw left, right and seven, chug, eight. And you're going to throw your arms forward, boom, like get off of me, you're going to shake your sleeves off, alright. That's on eight, ready? So we just did our riffles, so we did eight, we have and a oney and a two, and a three and a four and a five and a six, seven, eight. Nice, do that a little bit faster. Six, seven, eight. And a oney and a two and a three and a four and a five, six, seven, eight. Good work."