Ballroom Blitz #083

Walks in Jive - Nov 09, 2023

Transcript

Ian: Why hello there random dancer on the internet. My name's Ian,

Lindsey: and my name's Lindsey,

Ian & Lindsey: and this is a Ballroom Blitz!

Lindsey: Welcome back dancers to another Ballroom Blitz. We are dancing some Jive today and the move we're going to be showing you is the Walks.

So this figure follows our usual pattern that we often get in our Jive figures which is Back Replace, and then two Chasses, but with one rather important difference. So let's take a look.

[Demonstration without music]

Lindsey: So, we are in a closed position for this one doing our regular Back Replace in that hold, but then our Chasses after that are following along a straight line; so no backwards and forwards, it's quite directional. So to start start off with let us have a look at the leader steps.

Ian: Alrighty leaders, because we are following the classic Back Replace Chasse Chasse pattern, a lot of the lead for this figure is fairly straightforward. We're going to do all our regular things in a closed position, lifting up, turning that 1/8 for the back, and then we're just, as with a lot of these figures, not on the replace returning to closed for the chasse, we're going to retain that Fallaway, soon to be Prominade, position. So, we have Back Replace and now because we have not returned to the Closed Position, we've stayed in Prominade, I'm going to start Chassing in Prominade. And if I think of just Chassing in Prominade, that really is the basic Walks figure. You get a lot more variants that you can add and do with this, but if we just start with the base move we have Back Replace, don't return to Closed position retain that Promenade slash Fallaway type position and Chasse down the line.

Lindsey: So followers, what we will feel is some work through the frame keeping us in that Prominade Position. We're ready to turn to Fallaway as normal with our Back Replace, back on right replace on left, but then we'll feel ourselves kept there. We are ready for our Chasse so our Right-a Right, then we're bringing this foot through for our Left-a Left. So you'll probably find that first Chasse a little bit more comfortable, we do though have the ability to bring that sort of back foot through across us in that Prominade position and we keeping it nice and small and nice and light.

So that is all there is to that particular figure. There are different alternatives, but that's your base. So just a Back Replace Chasse Chasse. But, what you will find at the end of it so we've gone Back Replace Chasse One Through Chasse Two on that inside foot, you will find at this point to go into to your next figure you're not really in the position, and your momentum is not such that you'll want to do a Back Replace after that; you'll find it very sort of unsettling and unbalancing. So your next figure will be changed to cut out that regular Back Replace, you'll probably go straight into a couple more Chasses into your next figure after that.

[Demonstration with counts]

[Demonstration with music]

Lindsey: And that's all there is to the walks in Jive, not really though because there are some different things that you can do with the timing, different ways of coming out of it, we will have a look at that on future blitzers. But in the meantime throw this in, it's a great one for shifting you a little bit away, a lot of our Jive moves kind of stay on the spot so this is a nice one to sort of use for floorcraft purposes and just get moving in a different way. So, throw it into your Jive, have some fun, let us know how you go and what you'd like to see next and we'll see you next time.