1. How to count the beat in Latin dance
In the initial practice, you can count the beat on your mouth, add a half note “&” before the first beat, and start moving your body at the same time. For example, in rumba, the common way of counting beats is “2-3-4-1”. At the beginning of music, the rhythm can be counted as follows: 2-3-4-1 – & (start action) – 2-3-4-1.
2. What are the advantages of Latin dancing
Learn to lengthen your neck in Latin dance, so that your back will naturally straighten, and the whole person will look much more energetic. If you carefully observe, the fine lines on your neck will also be reduced. If you can persist for a few months, you will find that you have grown taller.
When learning Latin dance, we often need to exercise our necks, such as turning our heads, turning our sides, moving our necks around and around. These movements are relatively simple. Usually, we can do them anytime and anywhere in the office or in the subway. It is very beneficial to develop a good habit of moving our necks.
3. Precautions for Latin dancing
For beginners, it is recommended to focus on the basic steps. This seems simple, but there are not many people who can really do it well. Don’t think that the basic steps of a few beats are so simple. There is a lot of knowledge in them. The important thing is to get that feeling by learning Latin dance steps.
Men should have short hair, which needs to be combed in a partial way or on the back. Long hair should be tied into a ponytail, without makeup or accessories; If a woman’s hair is long, she should turn her head and not distribute it. She can wear a few accessories, but not too large.
Basic requirements for mastering solo Latin dance
1. Keep your head up and chest up, confident and intoxicated
It’s understandable for dancers to look at their feet occasionally when they are dancing. However, for many beginners, the whole piece of music is low from beginning to end, which seems very self-confident. If they pay attention to it for a while, they will return to their original appearance. This is very unsightly and is not allowed. The correct way is to hold your head up, keep your body in line, face the front with your eyes, fully feel your existence, feel the vitality of life, revel in the beauty of your body, temperament, rhythm and strength, gain the beauty and pleasure of your spirit and body in the dance of your inner and outer feelings, and enter the wonderful realm of physical and mental integration and internal and external integration.
2. Solid foundation to enhance stability
The focus is on the foot movements of a single person, the posture of the body, and the movement and stability in the dance process. Only when you have solid basic skills can you use them freely and smoothly in the routines. The feeling of putting on dance shoes is different from that of wearing ordinary shoes. When you first put them on, your feet may be very unaccustomed, and you may feel that you can’t walk. At this time, instability is very normal, and you will get better after adapting to it for a period of time. Dancers should not rush to practice the flower steps. It is obviously inappropriate to practice the flower steps at this time. We should patiently take more basic steps to familiarize ourselves with the feeling of dancing shoes. If we persist in practicing, it will be stable in three or five months, and we will have a foundation for practicing flower steps in the future.
How to buy Latin dance shoes
1. Shoe size
When many people buy dance shoes, they will choose a pair of dance shoes with proper elasticity and tightness. Generally, it is the size they wear when buying and shopping. This is wrong.
Professional Latin dance shoes belong to soft soled shoes. In the process of dancing, we need to break the instep (press the instep). When we don’t tie the instep, our feet will shrink inward, so choose a smaller size of dance shoes. When we break the instep, we will lift it very comfortably.
In addition, when dancing, the heels and feet need to be integrated together. So you need to buy dance shoes that are one size smaller (some girls may even be 2-4 sizes smaller). The first two times of wearing will feel a little uncomfortable, but the third time of wearing, the shoes will be stretched and just fit. On the contrary, if you buy the size you wear everyday, it will become larger and not follow your feet.
2. Height and thickness of heel
When beginners choose dance shoes, they will generally choose a pair of shoes with low heels and thick heels, because that kind of shoes can stand very stable and do not easily hurt their feet. This is also wrong!
Because when moving in Latin dance, you need to move the center of gravity back and forth on the soles of your feet, the middle of your feet and the heel. Especially when moving forward, you need to put the center of gravity completely on the heel, and then move people forward with the fastest speed. Because the calf strength of girls is not as strong as that of boys, girls should choose a pair of shoes with heels of 2.5-3 inches, which will be much easier and labor-saving when moving forward.
2.5-3 inch shoes can let girls stand on the broken palm completely, which will be very helpful to the verticality of the axis of Latin dance.
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