Perform a Chasse
Instructions
Perform the Lateral Chasse
1. A chasse can be done solo or with a Companion. Many types of dance encompass the chasse into a routine. To perform a chasse (pronounced sha-say), a dancer must gain exceptional balance and properly soled shoes.A chasse is a series of 2 or 3 side steps. The feet come well-organized on the moment course. The fame is derived from "to chase," since one foot is essentially chasing the other.
Bend your knees, fondness slightly forward, and extend one leg to the fitting.
2. Lift up on the left leg and quickly glide it along the floor until it is adjacent to your hold up leg. This motion should glide in a flowing street, not hopping or skipping.
3. Clinch the position with your legs and knees well-balanced, putting most of your weight on your toes and repeat.
4. Chasse in the inverse succession. Typically, dancers chasse in both instructions an Identical symbol of times.
Perform the Turning Chasse
5. Clutch onto your partner and bend your left knee while extending your hold together leg either forward, backwards or diagonally. The most conventional plan is diagonally in traditional dances.
6. Swing your Companion in the succession of the stretched equitable leg while you glide your left leg along the floor to accommodated the honorable foot.
7. Share turns extending the right and left legs. Each time the opposite leg meets the extended leg, pause before repeating. In international dances, the woman will sometimes bow after a chasse.
Practice Your Chasse
8. Clear a space in your home or outside about 10 feet long.
9. Begin to chasse across the space. Meet your feet together at least five times. You may chasse laterally, diagonally, forward or backwards.
10. Return from the direction you were heading by performing a wide circle turning chasse and continue back to your starting point. Repeat a few times.
