Pas de Bourree in Jazz Funk Dancing

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Alright, so now we're going to get into a pas de bourree, which is another French word and it's used in ballet, jazz, modern, and hip hop. It's used in salsa, it's used in every single dance form there is. It's usually used as a transition piece and it can be used as a preparation. So, I like to teach this with using the word pas de bourree. You're going to step left, behind with the right, step out, step out. So, with the words it's pas de bourree, ok? So, you can do this to the right, pas de bourree, to the left, pas de bourree, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Breaking it down again, its step. You can either go with this right leg in front in behind. There's so many variations. So, step, you're going to go behind, behind, step out, step out, k? This is pas de bourree. Pas de bourree, alright? So, we're going to start with that, one, and two and, we're just going to touch this right foot, up into pace', k? Just like the pirouette turns. Pas de bourree, touch, and we're going to swing our head over to the left, over here, like this, here. Pas de bourree, here, out, ok? So one more time. One and two and, out. When you're stepping out, you're going to do a layout which means a bend at the knees and your head is rolling around, ok? Pas de bourree, touch, layout, ok? So. you can go, touch, layout, touch, use the arms, which is kind of like the Matrix, so it's a smaller version of the Matrix. So, again, we go pas de bourree, step up, step out, and layout. Again, pas de bourree, step, layout, we're going to go down to the floor now, so some floor work for you. We're going to go here, touch the right hand to the left knee. Touch down, go a little bit lower on this leg and touch the floor, k? That's our prep. So, our prep is one, and, two, we're going to slide with the right leg just right here on your shin, so don't go down any further than that. Here, slide towards the front. The left leg is up, cross it to get up and turn yourself around to get up, ok? One more time, let's break that part down. We're going to go here, here, touch the ground, slide, so with the slide go straight forward, slide, step, turn around, ya? Let's add it all together. We're going to go pas de bourree, pace', layout, here, here, down, slide, step, around, and your done!

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