Your First Bachata Lesson

Step 1: Remove Limiting Beliefs

Dance is a language, just like English. The difference is that one is verbal, one is physical. Dance might be a foreign langauge to you. Will you learn a foreign language in one day? No. So remove expectations :). In spoken language, the combination of letters make up words. For dance, the combinations of body isolations make up dance moves. It took you years as a child to understand the letters to make up words. It will take you time as well when it comes to dance. Come embrace your inner child: embrace your mistakes, embrace not knowing anything. Come and enjoy :)

We will start off with connecting with the body in an isolation exercise (Step 2) and then apply those isolations to a dance we will do in bachata (Step 3)

Step 2: Isolation Exercise

I went to Barcelona and took some bachata sensual lessons. They played beautiful music about love. Let go. Connect with your body. Embrace it <3.

Step 3: Bachata

Just like how English has many dialects, like American, British, Australian English, Bachata has many variations: Traditional, Modern, and Sensual. We will be focusing on the modern bachata basic. But you will be shown the others if you are curious.

The Pasos/Steps

Modern Bachata Basic

You can dive deep into the basic in the next videos, but you can skip it if you want.

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Basic Technique breakdown

Basic with technique demo

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Traditional Bachata Basic

Bachata started out in the Dominican Republic in around ~1960s as Traditional Bachata.
It is characterized by a more traditional step pattern.
It uses the same hip pattern as the modern basic, but there is no traveling.

If you're curious about what it looks like, here it is: