Learn the happy feet dance move below:
Hey, what’s up guys! This is Sean. Welcome to Learntodance.com. I’m going to show you the happy feet dance move. OK?
So from here, we’re going to start like this. Five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. OK?
From another angle. We go, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four and five, six, seven and eight. And happy feet. OK? Let’s break it down.
So this move as you can see is a little bit more athletic, so you want to make sure you have the basic idea first before you start putting a lot of energy into it. So let’s start with the basics.
You’re going to start with your feet together and you’re going to think that you want to pivot this way on your right heel like this. Your toes lift off the ground. You don’t want to keep your toes here. You want to keep your toes up. Pivot. So it’s nice and easy.
At the same time, you’re going to do the opposite. You’re going to keep the toe of your left foot on the floor. Your heel is going to go out this way. And down.
So if you’re to do it at the same time, this toe comes up. This heel goes out. It looks like this. It opens. And then it closes again. You can repeat that on the other side. Your left toe comes up. Your right heel goes out. Up and down.
So if you’re to do that back and forth, that’s probably the best way to get the feel of this move. Just pivoting one and two and three and four and just like that. If I was to face the back, from here, and again, like feet together is probably the easiest way to start. You could start like this and also go out. Let’s keep it basic to start.
So again, same pivot. My right toe is going to go up. At the same time, my left heel is going to go up. I’m pivoting on my toe. It comes back down. I go to the left side, here, and down. So going back and forth, five, six, seven, eight. I pivot one and two and three and four and OK? I know I should have kept my feet together. I kept them apart there but you can see that it would work here or here.
So that’s the beginning. Now, let’s add the forward part of this. So we go side to side, one, two and you’re going to hop on to your heels. Pretend there’s like a chasm and you’re running up and you realized you don’t want to fall into it. So that’s kind of the look you want to give. If I was going this way, kind of looks like this. So my body comes a little bit forward to keep my balance and then I hop back on to my toes.
So you’re going to hop forward on to your heels. You come back. You’re going to hop forward again on your toes and your heels come out and then back. OK?
So going forward, the two parts are heels, back, toes, back. OK? If I did the side to side and the forward part, it’s going to look like this. I go, one and two and three and four and OK?
Let’s try it from the back, another angle. The same thing. Five, six, seven, we’re going to go this way. One and two and heels back toes back. OK?
The last part of this, really simple, it’s just going to be some hands. That way, you don’t feel too, again, too stiff. When you go to the side, just like if you were kind of, I don’t know, like running this way. OK? So when your right foot goes out, your right hand is going to come up like you’re making muscle. Left hand is going to go back like this. It’s going to come back to the center. And you’re going to repeat on the other side.
When you go forward, this is where we said kind of bring your hands out like you’re going to fall. When you bring your toes forward, bring your hands back behind you. Kind of like you’re pushing your hips here. Boom! Boom! OK? So putting all four of those together. Let’s start here. Five, six, seven eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. OK?
From the side so you can kind of see what my forward motions looks like. Five, six, seven, eight. It goes one and two and three and four, five, six, seven, eight. OK?
We’ll do it from the back. When you go side to side, last thing, I’ll do it and you can see. You can keep it simple with pivoting or if you’re a little more energetic, you can hop into it. OK? It makes you a little bit bigger and more fun to watch. But you can do it either way.
From the back, we’re going to go side, side, forward, toes. Five, six, seven, eight. We go one, two, heels, toes, five, six, seven, eight. And that’s the happy feet.
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