Basic Turns in Traditional Mexican Dancing

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We're talking about Mexican folkorico dance. My name is Aleli Montano on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to talk about turns, which they're very, very important. We talk about your spotting, that you want to keep a focus. Find yourself a window, something, a chair, a table, whatever you want in front of you. Make sure you keep your eyes and your head there as much as you can as you're turning your body and bringing back your head to that point. That will be your spotting. Now, turns. Some turns can be very slow. Some turns can be very fast. With the spotting in mind, you can just turn showing your skirt, your whole outfit. To either side, or can do fast turns, which you're mostly turning under yourself. Make sure your feet are not too wide, because if they're too wide you cannot turn. It's going to be harder. You're really turning under yourself. Usually the slow turns tend to be in 4s, so you'll be 1, 2, 3, 4. You can do a remate, which we talked about earlier, which will be your finale. You stomp your feet depending which you're coming from. So 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4. Or you could do the fast turns, which you're still moving your feet but you're turning quicker. You could do once again as we did before, your turns in figure 8, which they could either on your toes or your whole foot. You could do as many turns as you'll like. Using your skirt, Using your finale. That's about our turns. Thank you.

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