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Summary: Looking for new dance moves? Watch this free video lesson and learn the Brazilian Samba axe dance step.
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Patricia Prata Patricia Prata is a triple threat Brazilian actress living in Los Angeles. She has Bachelor of Arts in Acting and has trained in Russian ballet background tr... read more
Well this step is a lot of fun and is really easy. Anyone can do it, you just need to shake what you have so there's no mystery. You're going to open your leg and you going to make your hips in a circle motion and that's pretty much it, and then you're going to go down as far as you can, and then you're going to go up. And to help you can be in rileva, or in your tip toes when you go down. So you're going to be bending your knees while you have, you performing the hip circle motion. And you're going to go up and keep your posture because posture is very important, and also keep your solar plex to the sky. And attitude, behavior too and have fun because like I said before, Brazilian Samba dance is all about attitude. So, and you can do this, the side too, and you can bend your arm, go down. Bah, bah, bah, bah, da na na, na. And this is the style of Brazilian Samba achere has a lot of to do with the hip hop, because hip hop have a lot of circle motions all the time, up and down, so if you know hip hop you're going to do just fine with this one. Now you have Brazilian Samba achere.