Lindy Hop Swingout with Swivels Lesson with Frankie Manning and Erin Stevens

now what the fella will do when he starts his count like I said you start fella scars on his left foot and you rocked back on your left foot in this position and you have one two three and four again you have this position the fella sighs one two three and four again that step is one two three and four that is what the fella does now Aaron Stevens will show you what the lady do and I will move out of the picture during the count of one - the ladies are twisting their feet this is kind of the signature of the Lindy Hop so we're twisting one two and what happens is on the count of eight I'm getting ready for the step so I'm thinking five six seven and I step on eight with my left foot so I'm ready to twist right left and when I twist I'm thinking of staying on the balls of the feet so if you just practice this twisting back and forth staying on the balls of the feet letting your toes swivel out to each side going right left right left back and forth then if you were actually counting it you would think five six seven get ready and one two three and four we'll do that again five six seven get ready sink one two three and four we'll do it again five six seven steps sink one two three and four one more time five six seven step one two three and four so now you want to go to her so I want to show you the angle at what you have to go to her on but just remember that when you're dancing you want to get out of her way get out of her way remember that okay this is our goes you have one two three and four okay let's try it again you have one two three and four that's one two three and four and you're halfway around the lady when you do that so I'm going to show you that the women also move halfway around during the one two three and four so if we start five six seven and we step eight we think twist one two and we move on the three and four halfway around take that again five six seven eight one two three and four so our three and four becomes a traveling motion we'll take it again five six seven get ready sink twist twist then step and step so you've moved halfway okay now that you have seen Aaron's part as you have seen my part we're going to now show you how we do this together but first you must remember that your partner's right hand is resting in your left hand and this is the way that you will start to dance or partner dance so what we're going to do now is do the one two three and four together all right and our one two three and four now if you will notice I'm already half way around the lady on the fourth count so what I remember at the beginning I told you get out of the way of the ladies and travel toward her so this is what I'm doing I'm saying I one to get out of the way all right one more time and a one two three and four this is the count we got up to before and if you can notice at this position our shoulders are practically parallel and I'm getting ready to move out of my partner's way and she is going to pass by me on the count of five so we're going to say 1 2 3 & 4 5 6 7 & 8 I will do that again Owen okay you know OS to do and a 1 2 3 & 4 and we're in this position again I let my partner go by 5 6 7 & 8 now one thing I want to say I'm closing in on my partner we have a closed position like here 1 2 3 & 4 we're in a closed position but we are going to a open position so like 5 and I'm going to release my partner my arms or my partner's waist 6 7 & 8 I'll show you that again you have one two three and four five release 7 & 8 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 & 4 so at this point we're parallel to each other and as he sends me past he's going to hook his right foot behind and I'm going to step out past him on five on sixth we both step as we face each other and we finished with a 7 & 8 what's most 5 6 7 we go a 1 2 3 & 4 we're halfway around he's going to hook back with his right foot on 5 as I step out we face each other on six we step seven and eight now when you're doing this eight counts if you want to make yourself look look good a look exciting you want to really get down in your knees and these should be bent and you should feel that as a cushion and you want to start in this position you bring that left foot back and as you do it's just like you're walking down the street you know I've seen a lot of guys I say right left right left and they take the right hand and place it forward saying where they do the right foot but that's not the way you walk so now you just pretend that you're walking and your right hand will swing back with your left foot just like that can you down in your knees and as you do that you're going to stay here and as you step forward you're going to stay in this bent position now maybe you want to but generally when we're doing this we are are like here you actually you bound to assembly hey you know one of those things like that and when you do that you notice she cracked a smile so that's what you want to get out of her you want to get that smile so get down there and now this is what the fellow should do I'm going to do the full basic eight counts now and then Aaron is going to show you how the girls respond to your bowing to her so the fella is here one two three and four five six seven and eight and for the women while he's coming down low we're staying up tall and while we're twisting we're saying oh hello hello partner so our arms are working with the twist we're swiveling and we're working our arm and as we come in we're going one two we come in I put my hand on the shoulder as we trade places we're working together and the arm just keeps dancing with me and it's set up to go again so that's that's a styling that you want Oh one two three and four five six seven and eight and if you notice during the whole time I'm looking at my partner you know like you dancing on the floor with a young lady for all night long you'll be dancing you don't want to be looking all around it yes sir yeah the young lady in front of you pay attention to her look at her you know you're dancing okay baby you know one of those things like that so you want to get down with that all right take a moment to just get set to the feeling then get ready one to travel in swing her out seven and eight ladies twist travel in space your partner then travel out seven and eight men Rock step take hold of your partner place her release her let her go out again one two men take hold of your partner place her release her and letters swing out [Music] [Music]

Channel: Gainesville Swing

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Keywords: swing, dancing, swing dancing, jazz, gainesville, florida, florida swing dancing club, university of florida, uf, lindy, hop, lindy hop, swingout, swivels, twists, lesson, frankie manning, frankie, manning

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2017