Nightclub Two Step Dance Video - Country slow dance
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Nightclub Two Step Dance Video - Country slow dance. In this video, professional country dancers Anthony and Rose Lewis teach you how to dance nightclub two step.
A beautiful slow dance, nightclub two step is a great alternative to slow dancing. Danced with a simple rhythm of slow, quick, quick, the Nightclub 2 Step is an easy dance to take out on the country dance floor anytime you would normally slow dance.
Nightclub Two Step, not to be confused with Country Two Step, is a beautiful slow dance that can be danced anywhere there is slow country music.
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I'm glad that you are starting this series. Great explanation of the timing. Thanks!
Janet Clements thank you. We really love NC2 and would love to see more of it.
I’ve seen 3 different basics now for nightclub. I learned to do the modified rock step to start. I also have seen the longer step to the left to start the basic. You start to the right first. It doesn’t matter as far as steps are concerned. Once you get started it doesn’t change. Why do you start to the right?
Hi there. That’s a fair question :-)
Can the leader start to the left? Of course. Does starting to the right or left really matter in the grand scheme of things? No.
Why do we start to the right? Because starting to the right gives us the opportunity to immediately lead into a pattern such as an underarm turn or turning basic... and because the basic step in closed position is awkward as all hell starting from the left.
When you start to the right, the “crossing step” isn’t awkward in closed position. Your lower body rotates slightly open almost into promenade position which feels natural.
When you start to the left, your lower body still has to rotate for the crossing step... but now it feels almost broken and dysfunctional. Also, you’ll have to do a full basic step before you’re able to do anything else (a much smaller point).
As a side note, the basic step starting to left feels perfectly fine when starting in open position... which is where most nightclub patterns are danced.
Another way to say this whole thing is that the nightclub basic step is broken if you dance it in closed position UNLESS you start to the right.
Really lovely. Love the concepts...well explained. Thank you both!
So glad you enjoyed it!
I have really enjoyed your videos. Very informative. They are put together very well. Please do more night club patterns. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much! I'm sure we'll do more nightclub sometime :-)
So this seems similar to Bolero so It would seem to me that Bolero should be a smooth dance as well, but it is always listed as a Rhythm dance. Can you comment on this for me?
It would be easier to show the difference between rhythm and smooth than describe it… but I’ll give it a shot…
To separate things in to categories (such as rhythm/smooth) there needs to be at least one common denominator that differentiates them. Unfortunately, most dance teachers get this wrong. Here are the common things they say that are incorrect:
- Smooth takes large steps. Rhythm takes small steps. Not true as Bolero takes large steps.
- Smooth steps with heel. Rhythm steps with toe/ball. Not true. WCS is a rhythm dance that takes heel leads. Two step is also a rhythm dance taking heel leads.
- Smooth dance are progressive. Rhythm dances are danced in spot. Not true. Polka is a progressive rhythm danced and moves similar to ECS (rhythm dance). Samba is a progressive rhythm dance. Nightclub is primarily a spot smooth dance.
The common denominator is how you transfer weight from one foot to the next.
Smooth dances extend the foot away from the body first. Rhythm dance progress with the body keeping the foot underneath.
You either step WITH the foot you’re going to, or you step FROM the foot you’re leaving behind.
I hope that makes sense.
@@countrydancex That's a great explanation and I thank you for your time, but I have 1 little spot of confusion still. When dancing Bolero do you not step out or stick out your foot on the slow and then take your body over it? If so, then seems like it would be a smooth dance. If not, then I am all wrong about Bolero. Thanks again.
Does anyone know what kind of shoes he is wearing? Thanks in advance.
Yes! They’re country dance boots. Cowboy boots specifically made for dancing.
Hi, why is the 'rock-step-style' no nightclub 2 step?
Hi. It is Nightclub Two Step. It’s just a different style.
Kinda like East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Lindy Hop are different dances, but they’re all still swing dancing.
This version of nightclub is designed for slower country music. The older version (rock steps) is danced to faster rhythms typically of other genres of music.
Check out nightclub in the UCWDC (United Country Western Dance Council)
@@countrydancex Reminds me of Salsa in whether you break on1 or break on2 depends on what the drums/bass guitar are doing - if the drums or bass are silent on 1 then you break on 2. It feels better to break step when the music supports that dance movement.
I learned the non-country version of NC-2Step first in Ohio (QQS or 1-2-3, hold 4) and was very confused when at a dance studio in Colorado they were teaching NC-2step as SQQ (1 hold-2, 3-4 or 3-4-1 after getting started). However if you listen to country music for NC2S the drums and bass are often quiet on the 2 giving an "elongation to the 1" making the slow step on 1 to fit well with the music dancing 1 (slow) 3-4-1 (slow), or S, QQS, QQS, etc.
When the music rhythm is faster and includes drums or bass on every beat (quarter note) then I usually dance the non-country style starting with the rock step (QQS), although technically you could dance either version.
You two are very good instructors and I plan to watch many of your videos! :-)
I had the same exact same experience but in reverse… I first learned the country nightclub two step and later went to California and experienced the older version (qqs) and was confused haha.
I believe they’re different enough to just be considered separate dances now.
~ Anthony
Mr. Rumba dance and Miss Salsa dance met at a Nightclub. Married. The offspring? Nightclub. The rhythm is between. This became Nightclub 2 because #1 they met a nightclub and #2 they had an offspring hence the 2. Really!!
They make beautiful babies.
On that note, all partner dance (including Mr Rumba and Ms Salsa) can be traced back to their ancestor, The Waltz.