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Attention, Riverdance fans! Learn how to Irish step dance with these free video lessons featuring the acclaimed Irish dance company Darrah Carr Dance.
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Learn how to do the Argentine tango with professional tango dancers Ana Padron and Diego Blanco in these Howcast dance videos. Great for beginners!
Learn how to do awesome yo-yo tricks from four-time US National Yo-Yo champion and 2006 World Yo-Yo champion Paul Yath in these Howcast videos.
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Learn how to hula hoop from hooping expert Natalie “McFancy” Wise in these Howcast videos.
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Here’s a quick and easy guide on how to Krump dance for beginners, full of free video lessons taught by professional choreographer Jamal Cumberbatch.
Learn how to Latin dance with these free video tutorials from Howcast. Learn to do Latin dance moves like salsa, samba, zouk, bachata, and more!
Hip-hop dancer Matt Steffanina teaches you hip-hop dance moves in these Howcast vidoes, plus how to dance like Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Usher, Beyonce, and Rihanna.
Learn how to line dance in these free video lessons that are great for beginners. Champion line dancer Robert Royston teaches you all the right moves!
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Impress family and friends this holiday season by playing a few Christmas songs on the piano. Paul Sandberg shows you how in these Howcast videos.
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Learn how to samba dance with professional dancer and choreographer Michele Bastos in these free Howcast dance videos. Get ready to samba in no time!
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Learn how to sing with these Howcast videos featuring Cari Cole, who has worked with Grammy winners, American Idol finalists, and rock star legends.
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Girl bands, boy bands, rock bands — whatever your musical destiny, we’ll be your pro bono manager.
In this guide, Howcast will teach you how to step dance with free video lessons taught by professional instructor, Victor Sho.
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Learn how to swing dance from dance champion Robert Royston in these free Howcast dance videos. It’s easy to learn top swing dance moves with these tutorials!
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Learn how to tut dance with free video lessons from Howcast led by pro dancer Jamal Cumberbatch. We make tutting easy for beginners and advanced dancers!
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Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be continuing our mambo series and taking a look at the open box. So what we’re going to be doing is starting from a basic position. We can start this …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City and today we’re going to be continuing in our mambo series taking a look at the crossover breaks. So, for starters we’re going to be starting with the two-hand hold. We could actually start …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be continuing in our mambo series taking a look at a change of places. So, what we’re going to be doing here is we’re going to be starting with …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We’re professional dance instructors here in New York City and today, we’re going to be continuing in our Mambo series. I’m going to be taking a closer look at the cross body lead. What we’re going to be doing is starting in a close …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be continuing our series on the Mambo and taking a look at the lady’s underarm turn. What we’re going to do is we’re going to start with our basic …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City and today we’re going to be talking about a little dance called the Mambo, and more specifically we’re going to be taking a look at a step, just the basic action here, forward …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be finishing out our rumba series talking about a little pattern we like to call the shoulder check. So what we’re going to be doing is starting in …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re continuing our rumba series and we are going to be showing you a little pattern we like to call outside partner. So what we’re going to be doing is starting …
Transcript Aaron: Hi, guys. It’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be continuing our Rumba series and talking about the extended box. So what we’re going to be doing is starting in closed position with our partner with our …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be continuing our rumba series, talking about the underarm turn to an open Cuban walk. So what we’re going to be doing is starting in closed position with …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be continuing our series on the Rumba, and we’re going to talking about the cross body lead. What we’re going to do is start in closed position here with …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be continuing in our rumba series, talking about the opening out to the right and the left. This is one of my personal favorites. So, let’s get started …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be continuing our rumba series talking about the open break with underarm turn. So what we’re going to be doing here is we’re going to be starting in closed position …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be continuing in our rumba series and taking a look at the crossover breaks. So what we’re going to do here is we’re going to start with our partner …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be going a little bit further into our rumba series, talking about the ladies’ underarm turn. So what we’re going to do for starters is we’re going to …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be talking to you a little bit about a dance called the rumba. So first of all, we’re going to take apart the basic action in this dance …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: We’re professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re coming at you continuing our jive series. Taking a look at a little step we like to call The Whip. So what we’re going to be doing for starters we’re going to be …
Transcript Aaron Mitchum: Hey guys it’s Aaron. Kristina Reese: And I”m Kristina. Aaron: We’re professional dance instructors here in New York City and we’re coming at you today with a little bit more of our Jive series and today what we’re going to be taking a look at is what we like to call the …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors coming at you today from New York City. Today we’re going to be talking a little bit more about our Jive Series. What we’re going to be doing today specifically is talking about a little step we like to …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We’re professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re coming at you with a little dance we like to call the jive. We’re going to be taking a look at something we call a rolling off the arm. Now what we’re …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be finishing up our Fox Trot series with the sway step. So what we’re going to do is go ahead and jump right in. We’re going to be starting …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be continuing in our Foxtrot series and we’re going to be talking about the promenade with the lady’s underarm turn. So let’s jump right in. What we’re going to …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New Your City. Today, we’re going to be continuing in our fox trot series taking a look at the promenade. This one is a great alternative to what you’ve seen before when we used the corner step, …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City. Today we’re going to be continuing in our foxtrot series taking a look at the corner step. Now this is a really great element that we’re going to use inside of our foxtrot to, …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City. Now today we’re going to be talking about a little dance we like to call the foxtrot, and we’re going to be starting here with the basic step. So what we’re going to …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be finishing up our series on the waltz with a little thing we like to call face-to-face and back-to-back. So… Kristina: We are going to start this pattern …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys. It’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City and today we’re going to be continuing with our waltz series taking a look at the progressive step in the waltz. Christina: So, for the progressive we’re going to back up just a …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to be continuing in our waltz series, taking a look at the ladies’ underarm turn. So what we’re going to do is start this pattern in closed position with …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, I’m Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re both professional dance instructors here in New York City and today, we’re going to be talking about our waltz. We’re going to be taking a look at a step we like to refer to as the balance steps. Kristina: This step is …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we’re going to bringing you a series based on the waltz. Kristina: So the first step we’re going to do is the box step which is like the most common foundational …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys it’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City. And today we’re dipping back into our advanced swing series. Today talking about our final step, the turn into a dip. So what we’re going to be doing here is we’re going to be …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We are professional dance instructors here in New York City and today, we’re going to be continuing in our Mambo series. We’re going to be taking a closer look at the cross body lead. What we’re going to be doing is starting in close …
Transcript Aaron: Hey, guys, it’s Aaron. Christina: And I’m Christina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors here in New York City, coming at you today with a little bit of our Advanced Swing Series. Talking today about the hip lift. Now, for starters, just want to throw this out there; this is one of the …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We are professional dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we’re going to be talking a little bit more about some advanced moves in our swing. So today what we’re going to be talking about is what we like …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we’re going to be talking about some advanced moves in the swing. And what we’re going to be talking about is a little step we like to call back …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we’re going to be talking about the swing and a little step we like to call the American spin. So let’s take a look at this one. Guys, what …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: And we’re professional dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we’re going to be dipping back into our swing dance and we’re going to be talking about a little step we like to call the change of hands behind …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We’re professional dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we’re going to be going back into our swing and we’re going to be talking about a little step we like to call the cuddle. So what we’re going to …
Transcript Aaron: Hi guys, it’s Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We’re professional ballroom dance instructors coming at you today from New York City and today we’re going to be talking about the Ladies’ Underarm Turn in our swing. Kristina: So, we’re going to begin this move with the basics, so go ahead and take …
Transcript Aaron: Hey guys, I’m Aaron. Kristina: And I’m Kristina. Aaron: We’re professional ballroom dance instructors coming at you today from New York City, and today we’re going to be talking to you about a little dance we call the swing, also what we refer to in the ballroom world as East Coast Swing. So …
Transcript Hi my name is Victor Show, and today we are going to be working on a stepping series okay? Stepping to me is a big ordeal, you know. It’s basically the first kind of dance style that I was related to where I actually had to learn choreography. I come from a step dance …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and I’m going to tell you, what is stepping. Stepping, or as some people like to say, step dance, is a form of a body percussion. Yeah? It originates, even as far as, from my knowledge, from my experience, from what I know, back even all the way …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho and I’m going to show you an advanced party stroll. Alright? So we want to stay grounded right here. We’re going to step over with our right leg. Now you see how my body is positioned, slightly profiled towards the front? Stomps with the left leg. Your arm …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho and I’m going to show you how to develop step team chants. The step team chants for Acandis, as they like to call it, is basically what sets the tone for the step. It also sets the tempo for the step. It also introduces the name of step …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and right now I’m going to show you how I infuse krump dance with stepping. Okay? So, we’re going to go, we’re going to get grounded right now. We’re going to stomp with our right leg, stomp with our left leg, clap with our right, with our hands …
Transcript Hi. My name is Victor Sho and this is Oscar Acevedo. He will be assisting me. And we are going to teach you a step dance that’s infused and more so influenced by Latin, kind of like a Latin feel. You know what I’m saying? Alright? So, here we go. So, what you want …
Transcript Hi, name is Victor Sho, and this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo, and we are going to teach you how to freestyle step. So when you’re freestyle stepping, all you have to do is, honestly, keep a solid bass beat, a simple one. It can be as simple as a hand clap (one, two, …
Transcript That is the bass piece and now we are going to add the actual step that we need to learn to combine with this bass piece. So coming on to start off; put your right stomp, left stomp clap situation. You are going to go 1 and 2, 5, 6, 7, 8…..5,6,7,8, 1 and …
Transcript Hi my name is Victor Sho and I’m going to teach you an intermediate party stroll, this is my assistant Oscar Asalido and we’re gonna get right into it. So what were going to do, is we’re gonna do simple party stroll to left, party stroll to the right, simple. And what we’re gonna …
Transcript Hi, name is Victor Sho and this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo and we are going to show you a beginner level party stroll. Okay? So, simple. You’re going to get grounded as usual. We’re going to stroll to the left, stomp with the right, stroll to the right, stomp with the left. We’re …
Transcript Hi my name is Victor Sho. And this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo. And we are going to teach you an advanced power step. Okay. So get grounded over here. We’re going to do the same that we did in the other two beginners and intermediate. We’re going to do two strolls to the …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho and this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo and we are going to do an intermediate power step combo. Alright, so what you want to do is get grounded right and then we’re going to start again with a basic stroll to the left. Step, stomp, step. So step, …
Transcript Hi my name is Victor Sho. And this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo. And we are going to teach you a beginner power step combo. Okay. So get grounded right here. What we are going to do is we’re going to step over with our left. And we’re going to stomp with our right. …
Transcript Hi everybody. My name is Victor Sho and this is Oscar Acevedo. He will be assisting me today. So we are going to be teaching an advanced technical step combo. This combo is a little difficult because it has weight shifting and it has clomps in it, which are hand claps and stomps at …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and I’m going to show you how to do a simple step for beginners. It’s going to incorporate your power stepping and your technical stepping all in one. Okay? So we’re going to stomp with our left, clap, and then hit our right thigh. It’s going to go …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and I’m going to tell you what a horse clap is. Okay? A horse clap is another form of a triplet, because it’s actually something that goes in three’s. The only difference with the horse clap is that it can go into a horse clap of three, a …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho and what I’m going to explain to you right now is the difference between threes, fours, fives and sixes. Now once again this is not a universal language, this is pretty much what my step dance company of players use as a form of a language to explain …
Transcript Hi. My name is Vic Rochelle, and I am going to show you how to do contracting, and releasing, in power stepping. When you’re doing party, your strolls in power stepping, you want to understand that you have a contraction right here, then you release in the air to stomp and contract again. Okay? …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho and this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo, and we are going to teach you a basic technical step combo. Alright? So what you want to do is you stomp with your right leg, then you stomp with your left leg, then you do a hand clap. Then you …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and I’m going to show you how to do arm movements in power stepping. Okay? When you do your power stepping, you have your strolls. We have these lines right here. Basically, what I want to teach you is how to move efficiently through them so that they’re …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and this is my assistant Oska Ossevato, and we are going to teach you an intermediate technical step combo. So what I want you to do, is get grounded right here. We’re going to start off with a double step going right, left. Five, six, five, six, seven, …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Shell, and I’m going to show you how to hop, when you’re doing your power step or a party stroll. Now people use hops all the time and there’s so many different ones you can do. There’s ones over here, there’s ones over here. Or, there’s a specific one …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and this is my assistant Oscar Acevedo, and we are going to teach you a beginner level of how to combine a step to a bass beat. So we’re going to start off teaching you the bass beat and then Oscar will always do the bass beat. And …
Transcript Hi, my name is Victor Sho, and I am basically going to explain what is party strolling. Okay? Party strolling is a form of power stepping. The only difference is that it’s done to music. In that sense, it allows you to be a little more free, allows you to incorporate a little bit …
