How to Put Merengue Dance Steps Together

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Part of the video series: How to Dance the Merengue

Summary: Learn how to put merengue dance steps together 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

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How to Put Merengue Dance Steps Together

Here's our basic. In our basics, we learned how to move from one side to another. If you wanted to, you could do a really slow. Next, we did travel step, which can also go the other way. Coming back to neutral. Then we had the pivot step. Back to neutral. We had the pivot step. Back to neutral. We had pivot forward, back, forward, back, pivot. We had the turn. Pivot, pivot, pivot. Again. With the turn, goes pivot, pivot, neutral. Next step we did we did a slow circle with the hips. It looks like this. Round, round. Again. It goes around, around, around, around into Merengue. Next step we did was box step. It looks like this. Merengue. Again, box step. The last step that we did was single, single, double. It looks like this. Again, the single, single, double. That's your Merengue review for the footwork. Join us back and we'll show you some partnering.

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