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  • Here is the next variation and this is called the

  • basic walk and progressive link and closed promenade.

  • Big long name but not to worry

  • it is fairly simple once you learn the step so here we go,

  • basic walk and progressive link. Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.

  • Closed promenade, slow, quick, quick, slow.

  • Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. Slow, quick, quick, slow,

  • pretty interesting step. Now we are going to keep this as simple

  • as we can because it can be quite complicated and we don’t want to

  • complicate you so we keep some of the details for the bronze one level but we

  • want to keep it simple at the beginners level so you can dance it right away.

  • So here we go a description, we are going to do it facing you,

  • coming towards you. So Wendy please.

  • We are going to dance the basic walk. And walk, walk, walk,

  • take a side. We don’t bring the feet together

  • we simple stop the feet, stop the body and simply turn the head.

  • So contrast that with our basic step which was and slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.

  • We don’t do the brush we are simply going to hold the feet in place

  • and instead of brush when we count this last slow

  • we simply look at you, turn of the head.

  • And we have, slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. Closed promenade, walking sideways,

  • step one heel, step 2 walk across with the heel,

  • step three, side step face each other, step,

  • step four close feet and change weight to the other foot.

  • Yeah? For me I am simply going to go

  • slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.

  • For the lady, and slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.

  • Important to note for the ladies you want to make a deliberate motion

  • to turn your head back to the left between the second step and the third step.

  • So we have slow, step one, quick, step two,

  • now between this step and the next step Wendy will turn square look back

  • at the curtain quick, and close feet and slow, make it deliberate, staccato feeling.

  • And slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, slow, quick, quick, slow

  • always stay on your own side. The signal for this step

  • can be quite complicated in description so I am going to make it very simple

  • for you beginner dancers simply like this. There are four steps

  • I am going to lead, or give a signal which is in step three and step four.

  • What is the signal, I do this step one, step two, step three with my body frame

  • and my arm and my body I am going to signal the lady to move back behind my

  • right hip, like so. So I will do that again,

  • slow, sow, quick, quick, see my body motion, turning,

  • making the lady step behind me. With Wendy, and slow, slow, quick, quick

Here is the next variation and this is called the

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