Balboa Park Dancers advanced dance lesson - Bolero, August 2012 - performed by Jack and Svetlana (syllabus).

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Bolero syllabus, for August 2012:

Carrie Pattern 1 -
basic with open to ~ fan position - SQQS

forward check to underarm left turn - QQS (pick up in closed dance position)

forward check, outside partner - QQS - woman swivels 180 on 2nd Q and both step forward on S.

follower swivels 180, leader holds - QQ

leader back - follower forward - S

reverse pivots - Q&Q&S

Carrie Pattern 2 -

basic to open - QQS

left side pass with hand change and underarm left turn - QQS QQS

crossover break with man's underarm turn (while woman breaks and steps to side on S) - QQS

another side pass (still handshake hold) with underarm left turn - QQS QQS

crossover brake (New Yorker) - QQS

underarm right turn with lunge (opposing/sit breaks) action - QQS

pick up in closed dance position (requires a hand change) - QQS

basic to open dance position

Scott's Pattern 1 -

open break to pickup in closed and back spot turn for leader (follower finishes with ronde) - QQS QQS

leader releases follower and does syncopated cucaracha while she walks around behind his back - (both finish by stepping across left foot on S, ending with weight on right)

leader does another cucaracha; follower swivels twice then steps to leader's left side with left foot and collecting right foot to left - QQSQ

back hook for man and shapes to lady; he unwinds (still on hand hold) while she walks across in front of him and spirals to side by side - QS (finish side by side with right hand to right hand pickup)

opposing breaks to lady free spin and pickup to closed dance position - QQS

Carrie Pattern 3 -

basic to opening out - QQS

basic to underarm right turn for follower with sit break finish for both man and lady - QQS QQS (change to 2-hand hold - handshake with left over right on last S)

forward break with man and lady changing places, both with underarm turns - QQS (man rondes on S)

man and lady walk around each other, while maintaining left hand to left hand hold - QQS

man does cucaracha while lady swivels then spirals 180 to left (man raises her hand above his head) - QQS

opposing steps to pickup in closed dance position and finish with lunging action - QQS

sway motion - QQS

basic to begin again.

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