How long should our Beginner Basic Charleston lesson be?

We’re in the process of planning the Beginner Basic Charleston class for Sunday. If you want to have your say on the potential lesson length vote now on the community page of our Channel.

What are we going to cover?

Depending on how the voting on lesson length goes will dictate how much we get to cover.

We will however be starting with the Charleston Basic step before looking at a couple of variations.

There’ll be some time spent discussing and explaining the twist action, but beginners may wish to come back to that when they’re more confident.

After that we’ll show you how to have fun with a selection of beginner Charleston steps. Including the Twists, Mess Around and Peckin’.

Finally we’ll teach you a simple routine to be able to practice what we’ve covered.

Where can I watch the Basic Charleston video?

The class will be live on our YouTube Channel at 11.30am on Sunday 28th February 2021. You can also watch it below, as well as on-demand 24hrs after it has been broadcast.

What shall I do whilst I’m waiting?

If you can’t wait until Sunday for your Basic Charleston fix check out our Solo Charleston video from lockdown 1.0:

We hope you enjoy our Charleston videos and do let us know what you’d like to see us cover next.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help people to keep dancing!

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

Website: learndance.co.uk
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The routine is taught in easy to follow stages that build you up to a full choreographed routine. There’s plenty of opportunities to practice the routine throughout the video.

Solo Charleston – The Dance

Charleston first became popular in the 1920s but actually continued well into the 40s, albeit as more of a partner dance by this point.

The music is generally fast paced and frenetic and rumour has it this was fueled by the legally obtainable cocaine, where alchohol was prohibited at the time.

Whilst we may have chosen a more contemporary (and slower!) piece of music for this routine, the steps are all based on actual Solo Charleston steps.

Featuring:

• Scissor Kicks,
• Suzy Q’s,
• Tick Tocks,
• Cross Points,
• The Lock Turn,
• Charleston Basics with kicks,
• Flying Charleston, and
• Spank The Baby.

So just a few steps then!

Whilst we start you off slowly, you’ll definitely build up a sweat! We hope you enjoy the routine.

The Music

The music we’ve chosen for this Solo Charleston routine is a contemporary option – Part Of The Game by Velveteen:

See the Solo Charleston lesson video

You can see the video of our lesson below.

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online Solo Charleston dance video please send it to your family and friends. Why not also check out our other online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing with this Solo Charleston routine!

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

Website: learndance.co.uk
Youtube: youtube.com/learndance
Facebook: facebook.com/learndance
Instagram: instagram.com/learndance
Twitter: twitter.com/learndance

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