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Hi! My name is Christina Haggerty and on behalf of Expert Village, you are learning today
how to dance cumbia. I'm teaching out of Silhouette in Burbank. Here is the basic step. The foot
pattern first starts with the right and it goes back, left in place, right comes together
neutral, and now we repeat on the left. Left foot steps back, right foot in place, and
left comes back to neutral. Again, you step back, in place, neutral, and back, in place,
neutral. If I were to speed this up, there's also a pause. I want to speed it up and also
put the timing on it. It goes 1, 2, 3, 4. You have a full pause to switch your right
from the left to the right. Then you step back, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Another element is the actual pivot. In cumbia, when you step
back, you're actually going to pivot that left foot a little bit turning on an angle.
You're going to go 1, 2, 3. See how I'm pivoting on the pause. Now I'm turning on the other
angle. 5, 6, 7, pivot, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. The next element we're going to add
is the arms. You don't want to have the arms dangling down on your side. It doesn't add
any style and it actually doesn't really do much for the dance. You want to bring them
up, bend the elbows. Ladies, if you want, you can slightly tilt the wrist up for a little
bit of feminine action. Guys, you can just keep the hands as a part of your arm. They're
going to make small circles here remaining between your hips and your shoulders. You
never want to go outside of that range. Let's put all that together. Step back, step together,
and back step. Here's the count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Let me speed it up a little
bit. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. That's cumbia. Easy as
that.