When we find dance-related resources that inspire us, we’ll be sharing them with you. These have been specially selected as they are well-danced with good body and arm movements.

 

RUMBA

Here are a few video clips demonstrating RUMBA technique, danced by internationally renowned Latin American dance champions. These will help you improve your Latin American technique for some of our DD dances.

 

Rumba technique with Monica Olejnik

A (very) short demo by Monica Olejnik demonstrating hip movements. Note the elbow leads in the arm movements.

And here are two short clips that demonstrate beautiful rumba hip movements, and weight positioning in the walks.

 

A short training video by world champions Joanna Leunis and Michael Malitowski

For those of you in our DD Level 3 class, I hope you recognise some of the basic movements in our recently learnt choreography.

 

Rumba demo by a young Bryan Watson and Karen Hardy 

Some of you may recognise Karen Hardy from the UK Strictly Come Dancing.  Note the lovely leg extensions, arm movements (and use of the elbow) and weight transfer onto the back leg giving that lovely ‘latin rumba’ line on the back steps.