Salsa: Basic Steps
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Cross Basic
The cross basic is used often as it covers a lot of ground, usually to circle around a partner who is turning on the spot or spinning. This basic gets its name because it is a cross between the back basic and side-to-side, and also because one leg moves across the other.
Verbal Cue:
Back-Cross-Side-Clap
Prepare to start:
Stand with your weight on your right leg ready to move with your left leg.
Beat:
| 1. |
Take a step back with your left leg. |
| 2. |
Take a step to the left with your right leg by swinging it across the front of your left leg and transferring your weight onto it. |
| 3. |
Take a side step to the left with your left leg. |
| 4. |
Clap your hands once to mark the null beat. |
Your weight should now be on your left leg ready to move with your right.
Repeating the process moving to the right,
Beat:
| 5. |
Take a step back with your right leg. |
| 6. |
Take a step to the right with your left leg by swinging it across the front of your right leg and transferring your weight onto it. |
| 7. |
Take a side step to the right with your right leg. |
| 8. |
Clap your hands once to mark the null beat. |
You are now where you began, with your weight on your right leg, ready to move with your left.
Comments:
When practising this while viewing the clip: Cross Basic, Solo;
remember that you are dancing in mirror image to Dan. The clip is cropped
late on beat one, so please don't be alarmed.
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