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How to do an Outside Salsa Dance Turn as a Couple

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From Quick Guide: Salsa Dancing Basics

Summary: Learn how to do an outside salsa dance turn as a couple with expert Latin dancing instruction from a professional salsa dancer in this free online dance lesson and choreography video clip.

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By Erika Occhipinti
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Erika Occhipinti is the owner of Salsa Caliente Dance Studio in Tampa, Fla. Since she opened the studio in July of 2000, Occhipinti has taught thousands of students and performed at...read more

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"O.k., so now we're going to show you how to incorporate the outside turn into your partner work. We call this a right to right outside turn because it starts right hand to right hand. So we're going to use the same prep that we use for the in and out, we do our cross body lead, push her across on five, switch the hands on seven. So now guys we're going to do that open break and we're going to open up behind the girl, push, pull, stop her, o.k.? We're going to extend this arm, not quite all the way straight but so that her elbow is slightly bent. This arm should again be at her shoulder level and you want it pointing in the direction that you want her to go which is straight that way. You don't want the hand pointing forward or back, o.k.? So point her straight, you can open that arm out to the side if you want to for style. You're also going to use your left hand gentlemen to stop her. This is not intuitive to the girls. A lot of them are going to want to keep on going, so you've got to use the left hand to let her know stop right here. Then when you go to turn her you're going to be pulling this hand back, and giving a push on the shoulder. So you're going to pull back, five, six, bring it down, on seven. Show that again just the turn part. We push, one, pull two, stop her on three, now we pull the hand back on five, five, six, down seven and again when we turn the girl we want to keep that hand right above her head not way up here. So all together this is what it looks like, we have cross body lead, push and switch the hand, push, pull, stop her and turn and bring it down. O.k.? You can switch the hand if you want to, come back to basic, one, two, three, five, six, seven."

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