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Summary: Learn box merengue dance steps with expert Caribbean merengue dancing instruction from a professional dancer in this free online dance lesson and choreography video clip.
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Christina Haggerty Christina Haggerty was born and raised in Seattle. She started her formal dance training in college where she took her first classes in jazz, ballet, and Ethn... read more
Basically with this Merengue step, you can do almost anything you want with your feet, as long as you're keeping that constant rhythm without switching from the right to left. It's very smooth. The next step I'm going to teach you is just a basic box step, but you can also do it while you're dancing Merengue. You're dancing with your partner, he lets go, it's your time to shine. You're going to do some steps on your own, then you would do this box step. It just starts with the right, left, right, left. Let me show you the step once and then I'll break it down. Here's your basic, then you break step. Step, step, step. You can do it a couple times if you want and you can come right back into the Merengue step. It's just a basic box step. Broken down, you just start out of your basic. Instead of stepping in place like you're used to, you're actually going to step forward on the right. You're going to cross over with the left. Now, come back into kind of a neutral. If you do it twice, cross, cross over, back, neutral, into your basic step. Again, out of the basic step, forward right, forward cross left, back right, open left, forward, cross, back, back. Last time. Now to the right Merengue rhythm. It goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.