Bachata Dance Steps: Outside Turns

Video Transcript

"Alright, now we're going to show you how to give the lady an outside turn. It can be done either direction. We're going to start out with our basic step in our closed position. In order to get ready for the turn we're simply going to slide the hand out so we end up in a two hand hold. Like this. So we'll show you what you're going to do. You'll do half a basic and we're going to slide out on five, six, seven. So it goes like this. Basic, two, three, we slide out five, six, seven. Now in order to do a turn we have to get the girl ready, we have to give her a little warning, let her know something is coming. So, on eight, which is our pause, we're going to lift up the hand that's going to be doing the turning, which is our right hand. I'm sorry, the lady's right hand, the gentleman's left hand. So, guys lift up the left hand and as you start to turn the girl you're going to just let go of the other one. O.k., on, one two, three as you go to the left, you're going to use this hand to draw a circle above her head and make her turn to the right. So it looks like this. Turn, two, three, stop her. And you're going to bring the hand back down as we go back to our basic five, six, seven. O.k., so let's show you this one more time, from our closed position. We're going to go, half a basic, three, slide it out, get ready and turn the girl, and back to basics. O.k.? We could also do it to the other side. From here we do half a basic, two, three, lift the other hand, and give the turn, five, six, seven and basic , two, three, five, six, seven. It's an outside turn."