(Bachata) Rotations using tilt and DJ turns ✨ lead with your body like a Spanish guy — Daniel Alma workshop by Gatsu Honey

“If you do it like this, your partner just spins off and the connection is gone.”

CONTEXTDemonstrating how a wrong lead breaks the connection

“I stretch my hand out to give her more space.”

CONTEXTThe hand movement that opens up room for the follower during the turn

“Fingers pointing down, and you finish at the elbow, not the shoulder.”

CONTEXTFine-tuning exactly where the hand and elbow go in the tilt

“When you lift your arm, that force naturally tilts your chest over to the right.”

CONTEXTHow the arm movement connects into the upper-body tilt

“When I feel him inviting me in, that's when I start turning my chest.”

CONTEXTThe follower's side — how she reads the leader's signal and answers it with a chest rotation

“When I feel him blocking me, I keep my upper body right where it is and I don't come up.”

CONTEXTOn how the follower should answer when the leader blocks with his body

“You can't just turn without a contraction. The order matters. First you close your chest for the contraction, and then you turn.”

CONTEXTCorrecting the order the body moves in on the turn that goes from the tilt into the DJ turn

“If you do the contraction first, she can turn so much more easily.”

CONTEXTMaking the case for the contraction-then-turn order from the follower's comfort

“The leader has to close the chest first, then bend the knees.”

CONTEXTCueing the leader's body position right before going into the DJ turn

“As she goes past, I open up and push off the floor.”

CONTEXTOn the leader's weight shift and floor push at the moment the partner turns past him

“This isn't done with the shoulders, it's done with the chest. Keep your neck where it is.”

CONTEXTRepeating that the turn comes from the chest, not the shoulders