How to dance like elvis presley tutorial

【How to】 Dance To Elvis Presley

okay it's actually kind of 1960 almost

uh with the two feet and then once you

get really comfortable with that just

lift up one leg

and do one foot and once you lift up one

leg

you really need to put a lot of your hip

movement into it

to get across the floor so once you get

really comfortable just going like this

i want you to watch your hip movement

and when this foot goes out

this foot goes out see it's pointing

outwards this foot

is going to touch your toes going to

touch across then when it comes back

like that your toe's going to touch over

here

so let's do it really slow touch there

this foot slides it does a little

shuffle and it touches over here

this foot switches and you go across

again

this foot switches make sure you put a

lot of hip movement into this

to be able to get across the floor or

you're gonna go like this

okay now before you even worry about any

kind of arm movement

that right there is ninety percent of

the battle so get real good and

comfortable

going like this across the floor

do it at work when you're on your break

stand in your office and go like this

okay now if you are a fan of other

elvish tribute artists you're gonna see

that almost all of them do it

differently than elvis truly did it

there are very few who actually do it

authentically

um i can't even remember who taught me

this move but it was at an elvis

festival and

some other eta was teaching me how to do

the window because i was having trouble

with it

and he told me to do a little anchor

with my elbow like this against my body

and if you watch elvis elvis didn't

actually do that

he did something similar to it on other

moves like in loving you when he slides

across the floor meanwhile

blues but he didn't actually do this

on the windmill but it did help me

mentally to put an anchor

right here in my arm so when you're

first starting out it is okay to do this

but once you get to the point where

you're where you got the move pretty

well

and you want to do it authentically just

put your arm out

it's really simple just hold this arm

out so

and let that arm swing across so once

you get real good and comfortable

just doing this

you're gonna bring in the swing

now the swing is going to go

clockwise or if somebody's watching you

it's going to be counterclockwise

i have the phone on the mirror setting

on the front camera right now

so it might come out reverse in the

video but i'm going

inwards you want your arm to follow

inwards to your face

not outwards so so when this foot goes

over

your arm is going to be up and when this

foot

goes this way your arm's going to be

down

then it's going to swing all the way

around clockwise

so this is the two positions you're

really hitting it's just a matter

of getting there so let's do this a

little bit slowly i'm going to put it

all together

and then i'm going to speed it up and

try to help you guys

get there

again

i hope you found this video informative

today i hope you liked it if this video

gets a lot of views

i'll probably be doing more uh dance

tutorials for elvis

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The origins of Elvis Presley's signature dance moves

While they might seem fairly tame by today’s standards, in the 1950s, Elvis Presley’s dance moves were nothing short of outrageous. All that hip-action smacked a little too strongly of sex for conservative tastes but for a generation of young people finding their own identity in the face of post-war conformity, it was part and parcel of something modern, fresh, and vital – rock ‘n’ roll. But where did those iconic dance moves originate? Well, to answer that question, we need to take a quick step back in time.

Of all the things Elvis is famous for popularising, perhaps the most well-known is his iconic ‘rubber legs’ dance move. You’d expect something so legendary to have been finely honed over decades of gigging, but in actuality, the move was born during Elvis’ first paid concert in 1954. While taking to the stage with Scotty Moore, his guitarist and Bill Black, his bassist, Presley found that he couldn’t stop his legs from shaking – being so nervous about performing in front of a paying audience.

But rather than trying to hide this involuntary reaction, Elvis decided to use it to his advantage – backing away from the mic during the instrumental sections of tracks and emphasising the shaking of his legs to the point that he seemed to be having some music-induced fit, as though the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll had entered his bloodstream like a shot of adrenaline. Presley not only managed to disguise his nerves but also sent the crowd into a frenzy, causing them to scream to such an extent that he nearly left the stage, fearing that he was being booed off.

But the roots of Presley’s dance moves may go back even further than that. In his own lifetime, Presley was accused of appropriating several aspects of his style from Black artists. Defending himself against such comments in an interview in 1957, Presley said: “A lot of people seem to think I started this business, but rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along.”

Adding: “Let’s face it: I can’t sing it like Fats Domino can. I know that. But I always liked that kind of music. I used to go to the coloured churches when I was a kid – like Rev. Brewster’s church (Rev. W. Herbert Brewster of East Trigg Ave. Baptist Church in Memphis)”.

Music and dance formed an important part of religious ceremonies in Baptist churches such as the one Elvis attended as a child. While the practice is largely associated with Pentecostal church-goers, some Black-led churches in the US provide forms of worship in which the Holy Ghost is invoked through music and dance, causing members of the congregation to flail limbs uncontrollably and – stereotypically at least – speak in tongues. Is it possible that Elvis’ style was informed by watching the people around him celebrate their religion during those childhood church services? It’s hard to say for sure, but considering everything else that made Elvis famous existed well before he popularised it among white Americans, I wouldn’t be surprised if the origins of those iconic dance moves go back further than 1954.

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Rock and roll online education. First lesson

Rock and roll is a great example of an infectious dance. At the highest peaks of popularity, absolutely everyone danced it: from paperboys to the English queen. Elizabeth II's fascination with rock and roll was extensively covered in the press and was a major topic of conversation in the UK. We will begin our training in this dance with the main move, as well as with a few simple movements.

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Rock and roll is called a simplified form of jive for a reason, many movements and figures are taken from there. No exception and the main course of rock and roll. Those who remember our online jive lessons well will surely be able to perform the basic rock and roll move right off the bat. For everyone else, let's briefly repeat the sequence of steps on the part of the partner. The first step is done with the left foot back, or take a step in place. The second step is with the right foot in place. On the count of three, raise your left leg and cross with your right leg at knee level. On the count of four, you need to return your left leg to its original position. Five - we repeat the movement of the third measure, only with opposite legs. We finish the main move by returning the right leg to its original position.

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Partners face in the same direction. The partner takes the partner's left hand with his right hand, and the free hands are at waist level. For the first six steps, the partner performs the main move on the spot and, pulling the lady up with his hand, helps her turn to the left. The partner also performs the main move, but on the third step she makes a turn to the left towards the partner, as if wrapping herself around his arm. The partner's right hand is on top of the joined hands, and the partners finish this element side by side. After the figure of twisting, as a rule, there is a figure of unwinding - we will talk about it in the next lesson.

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Rock 'n' Roll is a swing dance dance that originated from the Lindy Hop. Rock and Roll is a staged dance that includes dance moves to rhythmic music with choreographic or acrobatic elements. Rock and Roll is danced in pairs (partner and partner) or in a group consisting of all women or couples.

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Acrobatic rock and roll: more sport than dance?

With the development of the rock and roll dance direction, its sports component, namely acrobatic rock and roll, actively developed. It retained the daring, recklessness and dashing of the classic rock and roll of the 50s, but at the same time it became a rather complex sport in which athletes are even divided into classes depending on the level of skill.

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Rock and roll. Online lesson number 2. Spinning and acrobatic elements

Our second online rock 'n' roll lesson will focus on spinning and some acrobatic figures. It is logical that after completing the twisting, the partner needs to “untwist”. To do this, she needs to make a turn to the right of the partner, thereby "unwinding" from his right hand.

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Rock and roll is a great example of an infectious dance.

At the highest peaks of popularity, absolutely everyone danced it: from paperboys to the English queen. Elizabeth II's fascination with rock and roll was extensively covered in the press and was a major topic of conversation in the UK. We will begin our training in this dance with the main move, as well as with a few simple movements.

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Jive training. Online lesson №4 (photo, video)

We continue our online jive training. Next in line are such elements of the dance as the change of hands of the partner behind the partner's back and the American spin turn. In these movements, there are many incomplete turns of 45 and 135 degrees - respectively 1/8 and 3/8 of a full turn around its axis. First you need to practice such turns separately from the rest of the elements.

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Online jive training. Lesson three. Main move and turn (photo, video)

We continue our

online jive training. In the third lesson, we will talk about such important elements as the main move and turn, as well as the solo turn. Most jive movements are various variations of the basic move, so this element must be learned thoroughly, brought to automatism and repeated many times.

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Online jive training. Basic movements. Lesson two (photo, video)

The first

online jive lesson was supposed to lay the dance base for the correct positioning of arms, legs and body in this dance. In our next lesson, we will look at the basic movements of the dance, in particular, the steps. Jive is characterized by small, short steps that are performed almost on the spot.

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Jive positions and hand positions. Online lesson №1 (photo, video)

Our readers already know this jazz dance after reading article

"Introduction to Jive". With this article, we will begin a cycle of online jive training.

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For the generation of the 60s and 70s, the musical style of rock and roll became a real religion.

How to dance like elvis presley tutorial

【How to】 Dance To Elvis Presley

The origins of Elvis Presley's signature dance moves

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