Big Apple Routine

Big Apple Routine

The Big Apple routine is one of the most famous routine and it was choreographed by Frankie Manning.
The version we present here is the one danced in the 1937 movie “Keep Punchin´”, you can check the original video at the end of the tutorial.
You can find the full story of the Big Apple routine on wikipedia.

Learn the Big Apple Routine

• Shouts – Break step (part 1)
• Lock Turn – Stomps – Transitions – Hallelujha’s (part 2)
• Boogie Back’s – Apple Jacks´s – Gaze-a-far (part 3)
• Susie Q – Rusty Dusty – Fall of the Log (part 4)
• Spank the Baby – Jump Charleston (part 5)
• Jump Charleston – transition step (part 6)
• Fish Tails – Boogie Front – Breeze Knees – Boogie Back – Ride the Pony (part 7)
• Knee Slap’s – Fall of the Log – Run Around – London Bridge (part 8)
• Clap Sequence – Break Step (part 9)
• Transition step – Kick forward Charleston (part 10)
• Trucking – Fall of the log – Hallelujha (part 11)
• Boogie Back – Shorty George (part 12)
• Flying Charleston – Knee Slap (part 13)
• Susie Q – Jump Charleston – Pecking (part 14)
• Boogie Back – Break Step – Break a Leg (part 15)
• The Big Apple full routine with counts (part 16)
• Big Apple Keep Punchin’ Version

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