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)
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.
It is a dance that originated in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. It is now global! It is very popular in Asia!
If you've ever heard of salsa, then this analogy will work for you: English is to Dutch as Bachata is to Salsa. This is because English & Dutch are in the Germanic language family whereas Bachata & Salsa are in the Afro-Latin dance family (The wikipedia page incorrectly removed the "Afro" part).
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.
You can dive deep into the basic in the next videos, but you can skip it if you want.
See how to move your hips properly & see how to style the basic like a lady (2:00). If ladys style interests you, you can find ladys on the internet who style the basic better than me lol. At it's core, it is the same movement, however, the movement is more fluid and less rigid.
Bachata came to Europe and the Europeans made it more elegant. If you're curious about what it looks like, here it is:
Here is a song: Bypass by Mr. Don.
This is the end of your lesson. The rest of the journey is up to you. I have lead the horse to the water. It is up to the horse to drink the water.
Check out these resources to get started dancing in the Bay Area.