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Well, Latin Dances never die, however, the dance genres are taking turns to make a craze. Not so long ago, the dance Kizomba started to rock the world and people are literally sooooo crazy about it that you can only find this dance everywhere. With a little googling about, one can easily identify this dance since it has a very sensual hip movement incorporating in all dance step, you may even feel like this is a Latin-Belly-Dance. And because of this very fluid and versatile hip movements, people cannot really manage to 'dance' but to make just footstep.
Now, let us see how the hip should go.
First thing first, a Latin dance should be danced with the Cuban Hip Action (and this is not a term limited to Ballroom Latin). So if you do not know what is the Cuban Hip Action, you can check it here or an older post here. If you can do it but not knowing how do we call it, you should remember it from now on since it is most fundamental action in all Latin Dances.
Then, apart from the Cuban Hip Action (which is drawing a figure eight with your hips), there is another hip action that involves Pelvic Tilt when knees are bent (the whole thing is a bounce). This is largely used in Ballroom Samba.
And we also have a Pendulum Action going together with the Samba Bounce (look it up in the Dance Glossary if you need).
After you get the idea of these three hip actions, try making steps on every beat of the music applying all three actions. Then you should be able to get the basic Kizomba hip rhythm.
After you can master the basic hip actions in Kizomba, you can try to apply other hip actions. If you find yourself not doing any new actions but to fit those 13 hip actions to different steps and moves, congratulation, you get it! Remember this, all Latin Dances share the same technique.
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