Rock Step Rumba Dancing

Part of the Video Series How to Dance the Rumba

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Learn the basic rock step for rumba dancing in this free Latin dance lesson on video.

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Rock Step Rumba Dancing
This is Leslie Sack with expertvillage.com. You can always check out my website at lesliesack.com and we’re doing Romba or Rumba the dance of love. I’m just going to give you a quick overview of the different directions that we rock in Rumba and then later in the video we’re going to do a little of our specifics about how the women and men do their separate parts. But right now I just wanted to let you know what rock step is, so you can rock forward, you can rock back, you can rock sideways. So what a rock step is it’s a universal term in our dancing and as you shift your weight onto her leg and then the other so two steps is a rock step this is considered a side rock. Okay one, two that’s one full complete rock step. This would be considered rocking forward on my left foot or I can say rock back my right, one, two. Most important part is that you shift all of your weight because that’s what your partner is going to feel and follow especially with the leaders out there but the followers really need to learn this too, that’s how your leader feels where you are as well, okay. So let’s just practice in all the different directions. So we can rock all side, we alternate quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow, change your weight, come back to the middle, that’s rocking the side, you can also rock on back, quick-quick side, quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow. One more direction is forward so we’re going to rock forward and quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow, quick-quick slow, okay forward, side, back, rocking in all directions.

About the Expert

Expert: Leslie Sack has been teaching, performing and competing in Latin and ballroom dancing for the past 12 years. She was an award-winning teacher and dance competitor for Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Read More