Samba hair-pad
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Steps: samba |
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Circle dance, change of
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Music notes
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Our sailor has been to
We dance for the pleasure so you are free to select a
relaxed informal hold etc.
Start: big
circle of couples (all the dancers of the ballroom)
The dance
consists of 3 parts: big circle, couple dance, chain:
1 big circle clockwise and anti clockwise,
walking steps
2a samba basic steps
2b whisk with (or without) Lady (L) turn
under arm
2c samba walk
2d bota foga
3 chain to a new partner, walking steps
In learning the dance: only basic samba steps in
2a-2d.
Or your own free samba dance in 2 (with due
consideration of others and the integrity).
Circle only the first time for introduction, or rather
each time for relaxation and the integrity of the ball.
bar no
1-10 Big circle, holding hands, walking
steps: clockwise and anticlockwise, left and right pr bar.
11-14 Basic samba steps, close hold.
15-16 Whisk, close hold.
17-18 G: whisk to the leftf while L right
turns under G left arm; together whisk to G’s right side.
19-22 Samba walk in promenade position, 3
steps forward and 1 step to the side away from each other, L right hand in G
left hand, ready to:
23-26 Bota foga (bota fogo), where L with
left side and back to G dances to G left side in front of G under G left arm
while G dances to the right; then equivalent to L right and G left. This is
repeated to both sides.
27-34 chain (= grand right and left) to a
new partner, walking steps.
The dance is repeated form either bar 1 or bar 11. The
dance ends in bar 26, couple dance.
Samba figures:
We count 1 a 2
pr bar. a is closer to 2 than to 1, which is important for the bounce action, so the music is made
with that consideration in the samba dance part bar 11-26.
Basic steps:
Close hold. G: left foot ball (lf) step forward on 1, right foot ball (rf) forward to lf on
a, lower heels on 2 (with or without a small tap on left
foot). Then rf back on 1, lf back to
rf on a, lower heel on 2.
L follows G, so commence stepping back on rf.
Whisk:
Close hold. G: lf
ball to the left on 1, rf ball
cross behind lf on a, lower heels on 2 (with a small foot tap). The
corresponding steps to the right with lf crossing behind rf.
L follows G mirror reflected.
Lady turn in
whisk:
L: with right turn: rf to the right on 1, lf cross in front of rf to the right
on a, complete full turn and down on
flat feet on 2 ready for normal whisk
following G. (This is spot turn, spot volta turn).
Samba walk:
Close hold with a little opening for promenade so G
and L walk side by side. We walk on our balls and move only a little forward.
G: lf a little forward 1, rf back a, lf is dragged backwards halfway
towards rf 2. Then rf a little
forward and lf back and rf dragged a little back. L walks mirror reflected
together with G.
Side walking (after 3 walks forward): from each other,
still L right hand in G left hand: G: rf forward 1, lf to the side a, rf
dragged a little towards lf 2. L:
equivalent side walk to the right. Then ready for bota foga:
Bota foga:
(Presentation of partner): (we come here from
promenade position in samba walks, G and L both facing line of dance (lod), L
to the right of G with L right hand
in G left hand, hands in front of
stomachs): L walks to the left under G left arm G walks to the right so they
are in wide position with almost pull in hands (waving the free hand): G lf
cross far in front of rf 1, rf to the
right a, weight on lf 2. L turning a little to her left walks
in front of G to his left under his raised left arm: L rf forward to G left
side 1, L lf further forward to the
left a (long steps), weight on rf 2.
Then they change back in the same way, L under arm, to
the more narrow hold again with arms in front of stomachs. Then again out in
the wide position. From this L has ½ left (or right) turn to face G.
(If we come from a normal closed hold to bota foga, L
turns right under her right arm to bota foga wide hold left of G, or L turns
right into her right arm to bota foga narrow hold right of G).
The music in bar 11-26 is intended for easing the
learning of samba steps, in couple dance. The music for walking the circle
(1-10) and walking the chain (27-34) is of more complex samba rhythms because
walking steps are easy.
(The music here in samba and in salsa dances in 4/4
alla breve is counted 1, 2, while it is counted 1, 2, 3, 4 in alla breve in
Accordion: beats pr bar: 2 + 2 (or samba rhythm).
These samba figures can be seen nicely explained (in
English) by David Syncamore & Denise Weavers, Latin American Dancing for
beginners, 1984 (video Copenhagen Main Library).
(Their samba is appropriate for dancers past 35, and
for Danish folk dance style).
(Denise proposes to commence standing with slightly
bent knees and bounce up and down with a hand ball to the samba music: down on 1, up, down on 2, and keep this bouncing throughout the dance).
(I propose to start the ball with the Charleston dance no 26).