Combining traditional Mexican Dance Moves

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Since we're talking about Mexican folklorico dance, we're going to now incorporate some of the steps we learned earlier with our skirt, the relationship with our arms and torso, with our feet, with our spotting that we did earlier. Our first step that we were doing where we talked about heel and toe, heel and toe, flat foot, flat foot. We'll also talk about the single waltz. So with our skirt. The double one. We're going to learn a couple new steps and we're going to start up with tornio, which could be translated as screw. What we do is we put our heel right in front of us, we twist it, screw. Twist it as a screw. We put our left foot with a flat sound on the back, then we put our right toe back. So we screw with our right, flat left, toe right. So that's the screw. With our skirt, we can use it very simple as we were talking keeping our elbows up. We could turn with that. We could use only foot or we can use both. Also, the cross step. It's very simple. You just cross, cross. This is all flat crossing. Remember to keep your torso moving. Don't keep it stiff. It's very loose. You can add your arms. Also, a really, really important part of Mexican folkorico dance would be what is called remate or your finale. Any state of Mexico uses that. If it's Jalisco, which is what we're using and talking about right now. If it's Chiapas, Veracruz, if it's from the north part of Mexico, from the south, mostly everybody uses this step. Usually what it is you turn around on yourself, you cross right over left, and you stamp or do a flat foot with your right foot. So pam, pam, pam. So right, left. You will cross, right, left, cross, right, left. What your arms are doing. They're crossing with you. You're keeping them even. Your skirt is slightly on top of your elbows and on your hands. So you're crossing and doing the finale or remate. Let's see that again. You're crossing, remate. Right.

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