Bachata Dance Steps: Cuddle Turns

Video Transcript

"All right. The next turn we're going to do, we call it the Cuddle. It's basically just an inside turn where we hang onto the other hand. So, same rules as before. We're going to start with our basic and slide out. Half a basic, three, and slide it out. And since it's an inside turn, we're going to prep with the gentleman's right hand. And this time, when we turn her, we're going to hang onto the other hand. So we're going to wrap her into us. And she's going to turn to the right, one, two, three. We place the gentleman's right hand on her shoulder, and we stop her here. And then, we're just going to take her back out, five, six, seven, tap. We're going to show you one more time. We have basic, one, two, three. Slide it out, get ready, and wrap her in, three, and take her back out. We can also do it on the other side. So we go one, two, three, prepare, wrap her in, and take her back out. Now, we can also add a little back-and-forth step here. So that would look like this. After we prepare, we wrap her in, one, two, three. Now here's where that reverse basic footwork comes into play. That's what the lady is going to be doing. So she starts with her left foot, as he takes her to the other side. One, two, three. And he takes her back to the other side, right, left, right. And then, we lift up this hand; gentleman's right, lady's left; and unwind her so we end up back in our starting position. Other side, we go one, two, lift it up. Wrap her in, two, three. Take her back-and-forth, six, seven. She's doing her reverse basic footwork here. And unwrap, back to the beginning. That's the Cuddle."