Ballroom Blitz #102

Video

youtu.be/xdcobJA3A2Q

Transcript

Ian: Hey guys and girls from the inter-webs. My name's Ian,

Lindsey: and my name's Lindsey,

Ian & Lindsey: and welcome to Ballroom Blitz.

Ian: Hello again Blitzers and welcome back to Ballroom Blitz. Today we are going into the land of Modern Waltz and we're going to be returning to a figure that we did a 100 blitzes ago. It was one of the very first ones we did it was the Outside Change. Today we're going to be having a look at the Outside Change Ended in Prominade Position. So, a little used figure for getting into Prominade, a nice sneaky little edit to the last few steps to give you a little bit of variety; so, let's have a look.

[demonstration without music]

Ian: You can see from the demonstration it is still the Outside Change commencing on the same angle the same foot and pretty much doing all the same things. You could almost argue that it's not "outside" anymore because the outside part of the Outside Change is in the last finishing position and here where ending it in Prominade, but I'll leave that for your own mulling pleasure. But, we're using the same three steps, turning to Prominade, there's a little bit of adaptability but for the purpose of today we're going to be pointing prominade down line of dance, and we'll be in our regular position ready to drive through on the back foot to put in any prominade figure that you want to afterwards. Let's quickly recap the first few steps, because we have improved a little bit I hope since we've done a 100 blitzes from when we did the Outside Change video, though I will leave the basic model version link in the description. But let's recap those early steps and how we're going to change the last two to get you into Prominade and using this figure to get into all your prominade figures.

So leaders, if we recap your steps, our line of dance is this direction, I am backing Diagonal Center and I'm ready to use my left foot. The easiest way to get here is to underturn steps one, two, and three of a Natural Turn, it will get you on the correct foot and with just about an eighth turn less, you're ready to go, but it's not the only way. However you get here, you're backing diag center, line of dance is that way, ready to go backwards on your left foot. So we do that, saying thank you very much for the followers drive, we don't want to undercut their drive here, and if we're in a nice closed position the follows almost just in their prominade position, we need to turn ourself away. We're going to continue that momentum from the drive step into step two, and on step three use our frame to hold the follow in position, allow our frame and step to turn down into prominade, rise through the foot and then land into prominade here without having moved or dragged our follow too far at all. So, danced with a bit more speed it is One Two and Three looking in prominade down line of dance. If you do want to point that Prominade anywhere else, that's fine, [the] golden rule is, of course, take your follow with you.

Lindsey: Now apologies followers, I've switched my line of dance down, so my line of dance is now going this way, just so I can face you. The leaders will have set up the previous figure so that we are ready for a drive step on our right foot. Usually when this happens out of a Natural Turn we will be going dead down line of dance, but as Ian said they have underturned it, so it's taking us diagonally out into the floor. So, we're diagonal center ready for a drive on our right, which we produce, drive. Our momentum will keep us going in that direction and then we will feel that encouragement in the frame from the leaders, and we will step forwards once again in Prominade Position this time. So really we can think of this as three forward steps, the exact direction of where we're going in the last step there to prominade is up to the leaders skill with their leading, so we want to leave a little bit behind. In this case though I've got forward into the floor on that diagonal and then a nice third step on that toe and settling on beat three. So it fits in nicely with our Modern Waltz timing three nice slow steps and we're ready for that drive through into a figure that starts in prominade position.

[demonstration with counts]

[demonstration with music]

There we have it ladies and gent, boys and girls, the Outside Change Ended in Prominade Position. Three nice easy simple steps. A much more comfortable way of getting to prominade, in my opinion, than a Whisk and certainly has less turn than something like an Open Impetus or an Open Telemark. Give it a go, try it out, try just holding your partner and sneaking into that Prominade Position and see how you go. Follow it up with Chasses from Prominade or a Weave from Prominade, any of your normal Prominade figures. Don't forget to settle in and get a nice drive, and if you want to take it anywhere other than straight down the floor, just tweak your angles and let us know how you go with that. Until next next time, keep dancing enjoy your Waltzing, and we will see you soon.