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    Carinosa Steps

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    The document provides instructions for performing basic steps and moves in the carinosa dance. The basic footwork involves stepping to the side with alternating feet and tapping the lead foot. Spins are also described, with dancers turning to the right over two bars of music. Common props for female dancers include fans, which are used to fan in time to the music. A key element is the handkerchief hide-and-seek, where partners peek around a held handkerchief according to the musical beats over six bars before switching places. Female dancers also hold their skirts up at the sides during dancing.

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    Carinosa Steps

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    The document provides instructions for performing basic steps and moves in the carinosa dance. The basic footwork involves stepping to the side with alternating feet and tapping the lead foot. Spins are also described, with dancers turning to the right over two bars of music. Common props for female dancers include fans, which are used to fan in time to the music. A key element is the handkerchief hide-and-seek, where partners peek around a held handkerchief according to the musical beats over six bars before switching places. Female dancers also hold their skirts up at the sides during dancing.

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    Carinosa, a Philippine Dance

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    The document provides instructions for performing basic steps and moves in the carinosa dance. The basic footwork involves stepping to the side with alternating feet and tapping the lead foot. Spins are also described, with dancers turning to the right over two bars of music. Common props for female dancers include fans, which are used to fan in time to the music. A key element is the handkerchief hide-and-seek, where partners peek around a held handkerchief according to the musical beats over six bars before switching places. Female dancers also hold their skirts up at the sides during dancing.

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    Carinosa Steps

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    The document provides instructions for performing basic steps and moves in the carinosa dance. The basic footwork involves stepping to the side with alternating feet and tapping the lead foot. Spins are also described, with dancers turning to the right over two bars of music. Common props for female dancers include fans, which are used to fan in time to the music. A key element is the handkerchief hide-and-seek, where partners peek around a held handkerchief according to the musical beats over six bars before switching places. Female dancers also hold their skirts up at the sides during dancing.

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    Carinosa Steps

    The basic footwork is similar to the steps used in a waltz: You


    move around the floor by stepping to the side with your left foot, then
    moving your right foot next to your left. You finish off this series of
    three movements by tapping your left foot on the floor. Repeat this
    sequence of steps, this time beginning by stepping to the side with
    your right foot.
    Spins are another fundamental element of carinosa. They take up the
    last two bars of an eight-bar sequence. If you're the male half of the
    dancing pair, you either fold your hands behind your back or put your
    hands on your hips. The best way to think of this modified hands-onhips pose is to make sure your thumbs point inward toward your waist
    and your knuckles rest on your love handles, even if you don't have
    them. If you're the female, hold your skirt up a few inches off the
    floor by taking each side of your skirt between your thumb and
    forefinger. You can either do two turns, one for each three-beat bar,
    or one turn on the first three-beat bar. For the latter, you simply
    stand still for the last three-beat bar. You'll always turn to the right.

    Carinosa Props

    Female carinosa dancers often use fans. If you're the female


    dancer, you open your fan by giving it a firm shake. Once it's open,
    simply fan yourself to the music, matching each downward movement of
    the fan with one beat in the three-beat bar.
    The handkerchief hide-and-seek is a key element of carinosa. Each
    partner holds two corners of the handkerchief and stand facing each
    other, holding the handkerchief so it blocks the view of the other

    partner's face. On the first beat of the three-beat musical bar, both
    partners lean to the right side and peek at each other around the
    handkerchief. They hold for a beat, then, on the third and final beat of
    the bar, they return to an upright position, holding the handkerchief so
    it is blocking the faces again. On the first beat of the next bar, the
    partners flip the handkerchief while still holding it, so if one partner
    had been holding the top two corners, he's now holding the bottom two
    corners, or vice versa. As they do so, they lean to the side and peek at
    the other partner around the handkerchief again. This series of
    movements continues for six bars in total; for the last two bars of the
    eight-bar section, the partners switch places by waltzing around each
    other while still holding the handkerchief. This entire sequence
    repeats. The hide-and-seek sequence can be performed with a fan
    instead of a handkerchief.
    The female dancer of the carinosa pair holds her skirt with one or both
    hands, pinching the fabric of the skirt with the thumb and forefinger,
    at the side, at about mid-thigh level.

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