A session today dealt with ‘sliding volcadas” as well as covering technique for cleaner and better looking figures.
In simple volcadas, taking a diagonal back step after the side step in which you make her rotate helps refinforce good form. I need to remember to make a weight shift from from front to rear while in that diagonal, and that it is a “push” rather than a “pull” that makes the step happen cleanly.
Play with walking forward to a cross, bring her out into a volcada which does not resolve into a cross but rather simply sets up up for a second volcada. One way is to backstep with your left into a calista, reversing direction as you go from the first to the second volcada.
For the “sliding” volcada, out of a cross backstep with your left, right, left again leading side step, all along holding her such that her following instinct causes her to pivot after a ‘slide” during the side step which resolves into a cross; make this into the volcada.
As well, when practicing forward hook technique from a standstill, remember that you are rotating her about her axis vs. pulling her closer to you. It helps to be close to your follow and slightly to her left, and in a position to step radially around her as you turn her on her axis.
Here is a short 20 second clip good to watch – not from class, of course.
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