| Smooth by shirasaya{W} Music: Smooth, by Carlos Santana The first part (intro) is: There are 4 segments where the brass comes in and plays a rhythm consisting of 7 notes. The dance will directly follow those notes, so you need to listen to it enough that you're familiar with it. It's easy, though, because you'll know exactly when to move; the music clearly tells you. All we're going to do it take a direct path down the body. When the music starts, before the first group of brass notes, lift your arms over your head, palms facing out, backs of the wrists almost touching, fingers as if you're holding zills with a relationship between the middle finger and the thumb.When the first group of brass notes sounds. you'll do 5 head slides starting to the right, echoing the brass notes. (They do 7, but they go so fast that matching note to note would look rushed and sloppy.) Then do 3 wrist floreos as you bring your arms down and out to the sides. When the next set of brass notes sounds you do 5 shoulder shimmies, starting on the right. Three more wrist floreos as your hands come down to your hips, and on the next set of brass notes, do 4 rib pops up and to the right, up and to the left, up and to the right, up and to the left, and then a definitive rest to the center for the last movement. Bring your hands up and out in front of you, then open them with a wrist floreo to the sides again, and on the last grouping of brass notes, do 6 hip pivots - up down front, up down back, up, down front, and up center. Cross the right foot over the left as your right hand comes up over the left side of your hairline, and you unwind your body in a slow turn as your hand traces an imaginary side part in you hair back to the back, then sweeps across your face right to left, then out to one side slowly. This turn will start before the lyrics, and continue through "Man it's a hot one" so that you end facing front again at the end of the line. Step out with your right foot, cross your left behind it into a lunge. As you cross and step back, your hands should come down in front, then scoop with crossed wrists in front of you and open out to the sides in a presentation gesture � as soon as the arms open to the sides begin a shoulder shimmy. As you shimmy, lean your body slightly backwards, and then straighten up agian. This should be in time with �Like seven inches from the midday sun�. Straighten still doing the shoulder shimmy and step out with your left foot, crossing the right behind it in a lunge and repeating the lean back and straightening with the shoulder shimmy. This movement should take you through the lyrics �I hear you whispering� On �the words that melt everyone, but you stay so cool� you do 4 maya facing front, then 2 pelvic rolls. On the second pelvic roll, pivot to the back and do 4 more maya and 2 more pelvic rolls. On �my munequita, my spanish harlem mona lisa� you�ll do 4 side arms with a face caress, while facing the back. The right arm comes up and over the head, and as you look to the right, the hand comes down along the left side of your face, palm facing away from you � once it comes down to your chin, it gently flowers out to the right. Repeat the gesture on the left side, with the left arm coming up overhead, down on the right side of the face with your head turned to the left, and then out. Repeat once more on the right and once more on the left. On �you�re my reason for reason� you�ll do four slow camels, with your arms up over your head, turning slowly so that by the fourth one you�re facing front again. On �The step in my groove� you�ll do 4 down hips with a pivot, arms out to the side in basic position. The first will be front, the second straight down in the middle, the third will be back, and the fourth will be to the front again. Repeat on the left side. Next page |