How to Dance Merengue

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Rosario Nene Ortega. I am a dance instructor at the Goddess Store in Hollywood, Florida. In this clip, I'm going to show you how to dance merengue. Merengue is very happy happy and easy Latin dance. Okay, are you ready to start? Okay, just mirror me. We're going to start with the right leg and we're going to step one step, right, left, right, left, right, left. Yes, we're going to slide in the floor a little bit. This is the merengue. And then we're going to travel a little bit. We're going to travel in the one, two, one, two. It's one step per beat. Also, we can play with the music. We can do one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four and I'm going to move to the other side. Left, together, open, together, open, together. We can go forward. Forward and back, forward, yes, and back. But this is the basic merengue. One, two, one, two, merengue Latin dance. For you, Nene Ortega, in Hollywood, Florida."