Bora Forró (Edinburgh)
We're a non-for-profit community group based in Edinburgh for everybody who loves the Brazilian dance and music of Forró or wants to learn it.
"We just wanna make the world dance" so we post our teaching videos here for everyone from anywhere to learn from.
We hope you find them useful.
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Pião into Giro Paulista with Lizzie
Caminhada in semi abraço into joint malandro + walking leaders left turn
Caminhada with changing sides
pião and pião invertido with breaks and coração a coração
Pião, Basic Turn into catch, Contrabase, Leque, Salida de Itaúnas
Sacada, Caidinha and Gather step
Simon Bagard: chutinho variations including rotation and enrosque
Simon Bagard: Roots caminhada, Trava and timing variations
Simon Bagard: walk, facao with twist, rock step with progression
Simon Bagard: openings, facao + caminhada, piao with paolistinha no piões, push pull
Simon Bagard: caminhada invertida + trocadilho do conduzido and return 7 steps + with 3 endings
Hongsie explains Trava, Trocadéro, Heart-to-heart and Push-Pull to Robin
Hongsie explains elastic turn
Hongsie - Playing with Slow Beats: Triangle, H, Diagonals
Hongsie Demo 2
Hongsie Demo 1
Hongsie explains Inverted Trava and Trocdéro
Gio Paulista variations and side to side waves with Marina and Filipe from Forro Liverpool
Open Close + Piao + Block and then Piao + Gio Paulista with Jonathan
Base 1 and Facão without arms then Facão + Open Close + Left Pião with Jonathan
Caminhada Closed + Open + Trava with Jonathan leading
Reverse left turn, Repinique with walk and Contrabase counterweight # Jonathan July22 explanation
Roots Sacada and Piao Improvers with Hongsie 2022-05-20
Hongsie dance demonstration with Hannah and Robin 2022-05-20
Side-by-side contra-movement Intermediate with Hongsie 2022-05-21
Xique xique (close shakey shakey) Jonathan Improvers 2022-04-22
Phrases to replace 123 or 567 Jonathan Improvers 2022-04-22