Pivot Turn in Irish Step Dancing

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On behalf of Expert Village my name is Niall O'Leary from the Niall O'Leary School of Irish Dance in New York City and today I'm demonstrating beginner soft shoe Irish dance. We are now going to do a move called the pivot turn. And a pivot is where your spinning around on one foot and the critical thing here is to keep your balance. So you put your foot on the floor we are going to spin around the right foot and so the idea is to put your weight on your foot and then move your weight move your body weight, your center of gravity over that foot and push off with the back foot. Like that. So what I did there I put my foot on the floor, then before I start turning I move my weight over my foot and I gave myself some momentum by pushing off. And this is a popular move in other kind of dances pretty much we using arms but here of course we are not using arms so the push off occurs on the back foot. Watch once more and I'm keeping my toes pointed on the floor and in the air.

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