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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.
You know, this is called a basic with a “”back step””. Remember, it is called a back. It is very very important for the males which are the leaders in the dance.
Now, we are going to do the breakdown of a basic with the back step. So we are going to start of course, like always, with that basic starting with the right leg. So we are going end, basic, one, two, three, hold, six, seven.
Once you’re in this position, you are going to lead and so with your right leg.
You open up to the right side you go end, one, back, step, two, back, step, three, back, step, four, back, step.
One, two, three, five, six, seven, open, back, step.
One more time, I am going to end it, with the basic and forward, two, tree, five, six, seven, that’s the breakdown of a basic with the back step.
This is very important for the leads.
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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is the basic style, of a Suzy Q with music, you can see how it looks. Now we are going to break down, the basics to the Suzy Q, the only difference here is that the focus is same. You just have to put a little more body into it OK. So we’re going to start with that basic, basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven, now ladies you have to lift your body, OK? And lift those legs when you go, and one twist your body, two twist your body, three twist your body, four now move those hips, one, two, three, five now working your body now your upper body, three, two, three basic, one, two, three, five, six, seven. And that’s the Suzy Q, bye team.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is the hook basic style. Now the break down to the style hook basic goes as follows: basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven, hook pull through, hook pull through. Basic two, three, five, six, seven, hook pull through, hook pull through. Now ladies you’re going to flare out your feet. Ok. And the men are going to hook out. Ok six, seven. So point those toes five, six, seven. Hook, pull through, hook, pull through, basic, two, three. One more time. Hook, pull through, hook, pull through, basic, two, three, hold, six, seven. And that was the hook step styled.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am a dance instructor, business owner, entrepreneur, choreographer, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. One location which is our headquarter location is in Forest Hills, New York and our second location is in Astoria. I’ve been in business since 1997. We teach here at our dance school pretty much Urban and Latin dancing, our specialties are all Latin, Salsa, Mambo, Merengue, Bachata, “Cha cha cha”, we have Belly-dancing, Hip-hop, Ballet, Jazz, Brazilian Samba. We’re going to be teaching you each move twice. We’re going to be breaking down the steps, we’re going to be demonstrating to you, and then we’re also going to teach you the styled version of the steps that we’re teaching you so that we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.

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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.
Salsa Dancing Back step styled

Now this is the styled version with the basic of a back step. We’re going to be starting with a back step. But of course we have to start it off with a regular basic, and we have to start that also.

We going to start with a basic into a back step, so we’re going to start with our right leg in our basic. So one to two, follow through, open we’re going to slide, open and slide, open and back step. And we’re going to put some shoulders in to it. Now ladies you want to extend and point those toes, bring it out, bring it out, bring it out, bring it out. And we’re going one, two, three, five and one more time one, two, three, five, six, seven. Basic two, three, five six, seven, and that’s the styled version of a basic into a back step. With body and also with arms for the ladies.

Now let’s try it with music, let’s see what we’re working with guys. Five, six, seven, and one, two, three, five, six, seven. And two, three, one more. And that’s the basic with a back step, styled, hope you like it. “

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. Now this is the basic with a cross body lead, the styled version with music, face your partners. Now, we’re gonna break down the cross body lead with the basic, the styled version. So we’re gonna face our partners. We’re doing a regular, basic dip. We’re gonna go and one, two, three, five six, seven. Now the only difference is that instead of going back, straight back on your five, six, seven, ladies all your doing is cutting. So you’re gonna go five, twist, seven. One more time, it’s over here, feet together, we’re gonna go from the top. Basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven, cross, two, three, five, six, seven, cross, two, three, oh pretty much I’m swiveling my body. Cross, two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, twist your body. One, two, three, five six, seven, one, two, three, hold, six, seven. And that’s a basic with a cross body lead styled, with little twist.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This actual turn pattern is called a drop hand catch. So pretty much, this is a connected step, so we’re gonna turn to my partner, Marcos, and we’re gonna do it with music. Now, the breakdown to the drop hand catch is as follows: you’re gonna turn to your partner, close position, we’re gonna go into our basic. Basic and one-two-three, five-six-seven. And this position here, we’re gonna do a right turn. Gentlemen, make sure you’re giving us the signals, okay? You’re gonna lift up that arm and you’re gonna push with the left hand. One-two-three, now you’re gonna turn yourself, into a right turn also. Now we’re gonna do it again, another right turn, two-three, recover-six-seven. So again, we’re going basic and one-two-three, five-right turn, one-two-three, right turn for yourself, one-two-three, recover-six-seven. One-two-three, five-six-seven. One-two-three, drop hand catch. One-two-three, recover-six-seven. One-two-three, last time. One-two-three, drop hand catch. One-two-three, recover-six-seven. And that’s the breakdown of the drop hand catch with a partner.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This next pattern is called the copa and side turn. The breakdown of the copa with an inside turn goes as follow. Gonna be your close position and I’m gonna go basics at one two three four five six seven. one two three five six seven. one two you gonna turn on three recover five six seven. You gonna do the same things to the opposite side. You gonna go at one two three five six seven. copa two turn five six seven. one more time. we’re gonna go basic at one two three five six seven. one two three five six seven. copa two turn five six seven. one two three five six seven. copa step turn five six seven. And that’s the breakdown to the copa with an inside turn.

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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.

This step is called the hook basic, we’re going to do this with music. Now were going to break down the hook basic technique. We’re starting off with our basic, hands up, were going basic and 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 hold. You’re going to cross over with your right foot and hook, flare, step, hook, extend, step, basic 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, hook, extend, step, hook, extend, step, basic 2, 3, 5, nice and strong. Hook, extend, step, hook, extend, step. Last time make sure that you really define and ook side-step, hook, extend, step, basic 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. And that’s the basic hook step. “

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.
This is called a ‘basic’ with a half-right, half left-styled. So we’re going to go and do this with music.

Now, we’re going to break down the ‘basic’ with a half-right and left turn. So we’re going to start with our right leg as usual with our ‘basic’. We’re going to go ‘basic’ and 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7… 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, ‘basic’, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7… 1, two arms up, 5, 6, 7… 1, 2, 3, 5, you’re still doing your basic steps, 1, 2, pivot, 5, 6, pivot… 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7… 1, 2, pivot, 5, 6, pivot, last time, 5, 6, 7… 1, 2, pivot, 5, 6, pivot… ‘basic’, 2, 3, hold, 6, 7.

And that was a ‘basic’ half-right and half-left turn styled.

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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.
OK. This step is called half-right, half-left with a basic technique with music.

Now, we are going to break that down for you as a basic half-right, half-left. The breakdown of this step goes basic and 1-2-3-5-6-7. At this point, you can choose ____ and 1-2-3. Once you in this position with the left leg on your 5, you do the same thing you did front to the back ____ 5-6-7. Again freeze together. You are going to go basic and 1-2-3-5-6-7, walk-walk, ____, walk-walk, _____, basic 2-3-5-6-7, forward-forward, _____, forward-forward, _____, basic 2-3. Now making nicely in short, 1-2 _____ 5-6 _____ basic 2-3, one more time 1-2 _____ 5-6 _____ basic 2-3-5-6-7 and that is the breakdown of basic half-right, half-left.I cannot understand the word for turn, which is said after 1-2 ____ 5-6 ____.”

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. Now this is the basic Cuban step with styled. Let’s go with music. Now this is the basic with the Cuban style. This is the break down. We’re going to do a regular basic dip. Basic and one, two, three, five. We’re gonna define, one, two, three. Your body, move your body, move your body. It’s like you’re brushing off your shoulders. Like you’re telling somebody “Get off of me ok?”. Five, six, seven. One, two, three. Five, six, seven. And start that again. Basic and one, two, three. Now really define okay? One, two, three. Frame and arch your body. And drop, open up, drop, open up, drop and basic two, three. Five, six, seven. That’s the basic step with a Cuban styled.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is called the Cuban step technique with music. Now, the break down to the basic step with Cuban is, this. We are gonna go basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven. We are gonna, we need to find on a one, two, just like, the left turn. We are gonna go and one, two, step, we are gonna open up to the left, step, together, open, together, open, together, open, together, open, together and basic two, three, five, six, seven. So, at it again. Basic and one, two, three, the five, six, seven. One, two, three, open, together, open, together, open, together, open, together, open, together, and basic two, three, five, six, seven. Now, we would like to do that with numbers, okay? We are gonna and basic, one, two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, push off, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six, seven. Basic two, three, five, six, seven and that’s the basic step for the Cuban.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is the basic with the left turn style with music. Now we’re going to be breaking down the basic with the with the left turn, so, our basic as usual basic and on, two, three, five, six, seven, we’re going to define on two. Ladies you’re going to teacup and lift up your arm on two so you should be here on two and if you see Marcus gentlemen he’s on a like a pretty much on a pasadoble step, ok, so on two we should both be in a styled position. Ladies you’re going to be in a teacup with your arm up and gentlemen you’re should be a pasadoble position. Let’s bring that back, ok, so we’re going to take it from a basic, basic and one, two three, five, six, seve, one, two, hold three, ok, you’r going to stay right there on three. You’re going to fram you face, ok on your five, so you’re going to go and five, six, recover seven. Again, feet together off of our basic, basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven, style, two, hold three, frame, six, seven, basic, two, three, five, six, seven, one, hold three, five, six, seven, baic, two, three, five, six, seven, hold and define turn and that’s a basic with a left turn style. Hope you enjoyed that

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is called the basic with a left turn. Now we’re gonna break down the basic with the left turn. We’re gonna do the basic as usual, guys, and girls. We’re gonna do basic as one, two, three, hold, six, seven now and we’re gonna go forward on our one like we would any other step. We’re gonna go one, and we’re gonna define on two, back step on three, open up on five, turn six, seven. So, let me slow that down now. We’re gonna go basic as one, two, three, five, six, seven. One, define on two, step on three. Make sure with this left foot, your gonna give a good push, ok. You’re gonna be over here on five. You’re gonna step six. You’re gonna turn on seven. Again, basic as one, two, three, five, six, seven. One, define, three, push, six, seven. One, two, three, five, six. Really, really just define here and push, five, six, seven. One more time. One, two, three, five, six, seven, cross, two, push, five, six, seven. That’s the basic, and our left turn broken down.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is called the cross body lead, but of course you have to start with the basic. We’re gonna do it in closed position because it’s a point of work move. We’re gonna be in closed position and we’re gonna do it with music. Now we’re gonna break down the basic with a cross body lead. We’re gonna turn and face our partners, and we’re gonna do a basic. Now we’re gonna be in closed position. This here,is called closed position. We’re gonna do a regular basic. We’re gonna go and one, two, three, back, back, step. Now gentlemen, you have to open up nice and strong for the ladies and give us a passageway, okay? Now pretty much he opens up on one. Now we, we take his big one. One, we’re gonna walk again, two, we pivot. Gentlemen you have to give us a little push, okay? Three, I’m gonna recover on, five, six, seven, again he’s gonna open up. Open, two, three, five, six, seven. Open, two, three, five, six, seven. Open, two, three, another good step is open, rock, step for the gentlemen. Open, rock, step. And for the ladies we’re gonna go one, two, pivot, five, six, seven. One, two, pivot, five, six, seven. One, two, pivot, five, six, seven. One basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven and that’s a basic breakdown for the cross body lead.

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. Now we’re going to break down the styled version of the partner sweetheart technique. OK I’m going to be in closed position, left hand over the right hand. So we’re going to do our basic. Dip, gonna pull us nice and strong, and you’re gonna slide, slide, slide, slide one more time. Then once we get to this last position you’re going to loop over the lady; you’re framing her body going down her back. And on your 5, 6, 7 you’re gonna sway, sway, sway into a basic. And 1 2 3, 5 6 7. 1 2 3, 5 6 7. Crossover. You’re gonna open up, sweetheart; remember gentleman you have to put your arm over her shoulders. Just like if you’re in high school and you put your arm over your girlfriend’s shoulder, that’s the same exact look, OK? Now we’re gonna open up and slide it. One more time. Now, when we come here, Gentleman, you’re gonna frame over, loop over her body. And the ladies are gonna sway on 5, 6, 7. You’re gonna loop over and go basic. 1 2 3, 5 6 7. 1 2 3; a quicker version of it, 1 2 3, 5 6 7, sweetheart, sweetheart. Sweetheart with a back step, one more time. And, you loop over, and sway, sway, sway. Basic, 2, 3, recover, 6, 7. And that’s how you do the pattern partnered sweetheart technique, styled.

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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.
Ok, the name of this pattern is called partnered sweetheart technique. Of course, this time, since we are going to do partner work we are going to be connected. So I am going to face Marcus and we are going to do this with music so you can see how cute it is going to look. Ok, let’s go.
So the only difference this time, we are going to do pretty much like handshake position.
My sweetheart. We are going to face each other and we are going to pretty much be in a cross position. The right hand is in the lower position and the left hand is in the up position. So we are going to do a basic we are going to go in 1,2,3..5,6,7. Now here, gentlemen, you have to lead with your right arm and pull her in strongly ok. It’s called the sweetheart so you are going to pull her in and it’s like you’re putting your arm around her like you’re sweethearts.
This is the same thing as the back step in our previous session. It’s the open back step except we are just connected. That’s the only difference. It’s the same exact footwork except you’re connected and he is putting his arm around me because he is my sweetheart, Ok.
So that’s the look of it. We’ll do it one more time we’ll go into our basic. 6,7..1,2,3…5,6,7 and that’s the sweetheart partnered technique.”

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Hi, my name is Trudera Vera, and I am an expert in Salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of Salsa moves, so that we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.

Now ladies and gentleman, we’re going to be doing the style version of She Goes, He Goes, She Goes.

So we’re going to be in our basic. We’re going to go and one we’re going to dip. Now, I’m going to turn. I’m going to extend my left arm. He’s going to turn. I’m going to extend over, and he’s going to loop me, and I’m going to come over him. Two three. Six seven she goes. Extend your arms. And turn, extend your arms again. Now the male’s going to frame over. Go through. One more time. She goes. Extend your arm. He goes. Extend your arm. And gentleman, frame the [inaudible 1:32]. One two three. One more time. And, one two three. Extend. One two. Extend. Now frame. Five six seven. And that’s She Goes, He Goes, styled.

Hope you liked it.

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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned.

Salsa Dancing right turn styled

This is the right turn, with a basic intro, with music. Styled version.

Now we’re going to break down the basic with the right turn styled. Now of course there’s a women’s version, and then there’s a male version. My version is I’m pretty much putting up my hands. And Marco’s is going to be pivoting on his turn. So we’re going to start with our basic, We’re starting basic and one, two, three, five, six, seven, one, two, three, recover, six, seven. Basic two, three, five, six, seven. One, two, turn, five, six, seven. Forward two, three, five, six, seven. Lift two, three, frame your body ladies. One, two, three, now gentlemen pivot on your three, five, six, seven.

And that’s the styled version of a basic right turn. Hope you like it. “

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Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is the Right Turn with the basic as an intro. So now we’re going to go into the technique of the basic into the right turn. So we’re going to start with our right foot. Regular basic as always. Basic and we’re going one, two, three. Five, six, seven. We’re stepping forward, one, two, we’re turning, break your back. Five, six, seven. Basic again. One, two, three. Five, six, seven. You’re going to swing your feet forward, two, turn, recover, six, seven. One, two, three. Five, six, seven, Define. One, two, three. Five, six, seven. One more time. One, two, three. Five, six, seven. One, two, turn. Five, six, seven. And that’s the break down of the basic with a right turn.

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Hi, my name is Jorday Rivera and I’m an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so that we could actually go out, practice, take it to the club, take it to a party and you could show off all the great moves you learned. This is the front double basic styled. Start with out basic dipping on two. So we’re going one, dip on two, bring back, six, seven. One, lift your body, frame. One, two, three, frame, six, seven. One, two, three, frame your body. One, two, three. Five, six, seven. And that’s how you style the front double basic.

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“Hello, my name is Jorday Rivera, and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studios in Queens, New York. We’re going to be learning a progression of salsa moves so we can actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is called the front double basic. We’re gonna start with the regular basic, so we’re gonna go basic, and …and that’s the front double basic. We are going again with our right foot on 1. So, we’re going 1,2,3, back ,back, step. We are going again forward, 2,3, recover , 6,7.

1,2,3,5,6,7,1,2,3,5,6,7, 1,2,3,5,6,7 . Forward, 2,3, back, back, stop. Forward, 2,3, back, back, stop. Last time forward 2,3, 5,6,7. 1,2,3,5,6,7 and that’s our front double basic.”

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Hi, my name is Jorday Rivera and I am an expert in salsa. I own two dance studies in Queens, New York. We are going to be learning a progression of salsa moves, so that we could actually go out, practice, take it to the clubs, take it to a party, and you can show off all the great moves you learned. This is the basic step. And this is the breakdown to the basic step.

Now, we’re going to start off with our right foot on one. So, we’re going to start with our right foot on one, two, three. We’re going to go back, five, six, seven. Forward, two three. Back, back, step. Forward, two three. Back, back, step. Forward, two three. Back, back, step.

And that was our basic step.