Summary: Learn about combo-to-chase moves when dancing the merengue in this free Latin dance lesson on video.
Leslie Sack has been teaching, performing and competing in Latin and ballroom dancing for the past 12 years. Before moving to Santa Barbara in 1999, she taught at Washington Dance Club...read more
"Hi this is Leslie Sack. My website is lesliesack.com. This is my dance partner Jorge Saucedo. We are doing merengue, and we are going to combine the sweetheart with the hammerlock into the chase. We got two options endings. So we start like this. As you know from before, we are going to push her away, and then we are going to bring her into sweetheart. The guys are walking forward, the girls are walking backwards, little tiny steps. Then he is going to turn her, so you're going to flip flop. You can always flip flop; so if guys you keep waiting, turn her twice and ooh, the hammerlock. And now he's going to turn you back the other way; ooh, check it out, we're back to sweetheart. You could just flip flop all night long. And then you're going to wander again, okay. And you just come back. Get creative. So that is option one, and option two is we're going to get here. We are going to bring her into the sweetheart. Then we are going to turn her into the hammerlock, just like you did, but we're not going to get too dizzy. Now we're going to end it with three girls' left turns on the end. So it's turn, turn, turn, and back."