Advanced Tap Dancing Warm Ups for the Ankles

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Hi. This is Sarah McLellan in New York City. We are at June Parody's Dance Studio and, on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you some advanced tap moves. Follow me. Now I'm going to start into some of that advanced warm ups. We're going to do a couple of different things just to get your ankles moving and incorporating different steps. So the first one is all about just getting kind of your ankles loose and ready for class. Okay, we're going to start with ball ball, heel heel, toe toe, heel heel. On the other leg. So we're kind of changing our leg each time. Ball, heel, toe, heel and you're shunting that second heel, kind of out to the side. And when you do that you bring it on to the other foot so you can start on the left hand side. Let's start that at a pretty regular tempo. Now let's get a little bit faster. You want to make sure you're keeping all of your sounds nice and clean and try and give everything the same emphasis. One, two, three, four, one, two, bending in your knees, one, two, three, stop. What you're trying to do in this warm up exercise is keep everything really clean, really light and with the same emphasis. So one, two, three, four, just changing the way, nice and simple, and keep it all flowing and it should feel really good in your ankles to get everything warmed up.

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