How to Do a Rumba Extended Box

Learn how to do a rumba extended box from dance instructors Aaron Mitchum and Kristina Reese in this ballroom dance tutorial from Howcast.

Transcript

Aaron: Hi, guys. It's Aaron.

Kristina: And I'm Kristina.

Aaron: And we are professional dance instructors here in New York City, and today we're going to be continuing our Rumba series and talking about the extended box. So what we're going to be doing is starting in closed position with our partner with our basic action here, with our box step. Slow, quick, quick, slow, quick, quick, slow. Now from here we're going to extend that step to the side into side, together, side, together, side, together, back. So we're tripling up here. Side, together, side, together, side, together, back for the ladies. Side, together, and back into our box. Quick, quick, slow, quick, quick, slow. Let's take a look at that one more time. Side, together, back, and side, together, side, together, side, together. Slow and quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, slow. Back into our basic action. Now let's take a look at that with music.