Breaking Down the Rhythm of West Coast Swing Dancing

By Donna Roesel & Eric Jacobson
Donna Roesel & Eric Jacobson

Donna Roesel and Eric Jacobson are dance instructors at Dance Manhattan in New York City. Donna’s dance background includes smooth Swing and Social Ballroom, undergraduate training in Modern, and later training in Jazz, Ballet, and Tap. Eric is a nationally recognized West Coast Swing dancer known for his innovation and smooth style. He studied Lindy Hop and competitive ballroom dancing before turning to West Coast Swing, where he rapidly found success in competitions. www.ericbjacobson.com

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Learn how to break down the rhythm pattern of West Coast Swing Dance in this free dance lesson video.

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my name is Eric Jacobson and I'm Donna Roesel and we are here in Dance Manhattan Studios in New York City to show you and teach you West Coast Swing. Hi, we're going to show you the patterns that we're going to later break down and teach for you and we're going to start with our starter step and we're going to go straight through them. Here we go and we're going to do two triple starter steps, triple step, triple step. We're now going to do a send out where the gentleman leads the lady away from him. And we're going to, that's a six count pattern, we're going to do, walk, walk, triple step, anchor step, which is a triple step in place. And now we're going to do an underarm pass. And we're going to do walk, walk, triple step, anchor step.