How to do a Shoulder Turn in Salsa Dancing

Video Transcript

"O.k., so the next thing that we're going to do is just some variation on the inside turn that we just learned. It's called a shoulder turn. The footwork is the same for the ladies and the men, and guys are doing cross body leads and ladies are doing an inside turn with your feet and we're just going to talk about how we lead it. So up to three, exactly the same as a cross body lead, we're going to go forward and open for the gentlemen o.k.? On five, as you push her forward with your right hand guys, you're going to let go of your left hand and you're going to reach for her right shoulder, so this is five. On six, you're going to use that left hand to give her the turn, six and then on seven you're going to catch her with the right hand, placing it smack in between her shoulder blades and following her around. Ladies that's your cue to take your arm up and over. So again, you'll notice that all of these inside turns follow the same pattern, we lead her forward on five, we turn her on six and we catch her on seven. So we have one, two, three, reach for the shoulder as you push her forward five, turn her, six, catch her seven and back to basic one, two, three, five, six, seven. Girls you have a couple of options with your arms. You could just drape it the way that you did for the regular inside turn where we would drape it across the chest like this, five, six, seven, and over or if you want you could take it up. It gives it a little more style. So you're going to go, one, two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six, seven."