Balboa Park Dancers advanced dance lesson - West Coast Swing, January 2012, performed by Scott and Caroline (syllabus)

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West Coast Swing syllabus for January 2011 (also see video with verbal description):

closed basic to back break

tuck turn to underarm rt. turn

sugar push basic

whip with inside turn (finish with hand change)

left side pass to tuck and free spin to right

left side pass to side by side - 123&4, face each other on 5 (with weight change), a6a7a8 (kicks)

begin next pattern from 2-hand hold with a1, to left side pass with triple underarm turn to right

right side pass to sailor shuffles to chicken walks (swivels); finish with right side pass with underarm left turn

1-4 of sugar push; then kicks (5,6,7), pivot on 8; cha-cha forward, turn 180, cha-cha forward; free spin; anchor

pick up in closed dance position; kick-ball-change, x's 3

tuck to underarm right turn; change hands with woman behind man; kick ball change; chicken walk (swivels); sailor shuffles; kick-ball-change; woman past man with double underarm right turn

sugar push

whip, to behind back hand hold, to kick-ball-change (x's 3)

side pass to right with underarm left turn

begin again

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