Charleston East Coast Swing Dance: Basic Steps

Video Transcript

"Alright, now we're going to deviate a little bit. For this clip, we're not going to be doing any Charleston. We're going to just quickly review the East coast swing basic. It's a six count basic step. If you've never done any East coast swing, this is properly going to be rather a crash course for you. So don't worry about because as we said before, Charleston is a dance in of it self, you can do it on its own. However, for those of you who are familiar with it and you want to be able to integrate it, you want to make sure that you feel comfortable doing that. As we mentioned earlier, Charleston and East coast swing can integrate seamlessly during one song one from another. So here's what it would look like to do the East coast swing basic. Triple step, triple step, rock step, triple step, triple step, rock step. Let's show it from another angle so we can see some of the connection. You can see that Jason's hand is now up at my back instead of being down around the waist like it was in Charleston. This is Charleston and now this is right up in the middle of her back. And I have my hand instead of being perched on top of his shoulder, that would be really awkward here, I just have my arm draped on his and where I connect is going to depend on our height again. And again, we're looking for connection points. I got her middle of her back so she's, I'm really at here core there and then she's got all this drape along my arm and then up to the shoulder. So lots of opportunity to connect and feel one another's pulse. Always a good thing. Okay, so again, it looks like this. Five, six, seven, eight, triple step, triple step, rock step, triple step, triple step, rock step. And we can rotate that basic a little bit. Triple step, triple step, rock step, triple step, triple step, rock step, triple step, triple step, rock step, triple step, triple step, rock step. That's the East coast basic."