How To Dance Natural Pivots

Watch and learn how to dance natural pivots with tips from professional ballroom dancers, Jonathan and Talysa. With guidance on footwork, posture, positioning, leg action and more, you'll have the pivots mastered in no time.

0:00-0:33 Couple Demonstration
0:34-0:56 Man Demonstration Solo
0:57-1:18 Leg Action For Man
1:19-1:37 Footwork For Man
1:38-2:02 Lady Demonstration Solo
2:03-2:24 Leg Action For Lady
2:25-2:54 Footwork For Lady

Script:
"Hi guys and welcome back to our channel. Today's video will be walking you through how to dance natural pivots. As you can see we're jumping straight in to demonstrating this as a couple. We'd like to draw your attention to how important it is to maintain the body position with your partner, right side to right side.

Now, from a solo perspective you can see how important it is in pivots to maintain the constant turn to the right. This is achieved largely through using your feet to pivot. We're going to have a closer look now at the leg action. There's a stronger forwards movement as we dance through the right leg followed by more of a left side action as we move through the left leg. Now with a closer look at the feet you can see the feet are continuing to turn to generate the pivot action.

Now on to the ladies role. As you can see the power comes from the legs and the feet and the upper body remains quite still with the arms not moving out of position. The same rules apply for both man and for lady. Talysa has a very strong forwards movement through her right leg followed by a side movement through her left leg. This helps us to stay centred as the couple. And lastly looking closer up at the feet. Pivots in the swing dances can be danced with different timings and with different rise and fall and that can affect the footwork."


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