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Monday 24 November 2014

How to turn and don't feel nausea

At the beginning I had problems with the turns, and there are a lot of turns in the polish folk dance, belive me. You can rotate around yourself or doing other steps with your partner. In general, it looks very effectively, but the work that you should put in practice the turns is huge! 

The first and basic rule of the turns is to come back with your eyesight to the same point you were looking. Otherwise, I'm sure you'll feel nausea and don't stand still in one place. It's important to never lose sight of one element of the scenery we chose to follow. The movement of the head have to be really fast. OK, that's the case of turns without your partner. But if you dance with somebody, it's necessary to look at him/her and wide smile :) 

At the moment we learned to turn the basic step of oberek, the turns similar like in the ballet and other one called okroczak. We do it with the heels on the floor and with the knees bended. And, of course - you mustn't forgive about the hands collocated pertly in the waist. I like it, altought it doesn't seems so subtle like a ballet turn which we do on the fingers.


And the last one I want you to know is the drobna kaszka turn. The dancers cross the hands and hold their hands. Then they start to turn together in one direction and next, in the other. It remembers a mill and the action of mill something with an instrument invisible between the dancers. The shape of their bodies should look like a glass of wine - the legs together and near and the sholders far.


I think that turn on a slant of the gymnasium is the worst exercise we do. I never finish it because of nausea :D I need many classes more to achieve success in this area :)

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