CUPS – video ideas and choreography notes

Hello Dancers! Here are some video ideas to check out about the CUPS song.

This is a tap choreography done by Broadway dancers in New York: http://youtu.be/Q4FYNF02yEM

This video is a percussive/tap version: http://youtu.be/a5DHuhM_brw

Here is a tutorial on how to do the Cup routine with a cup: http://youtu.be/qa4BUtsATsg

So far everyone has learned 3 patterns of tap rhythms for our version of CUPS, they are:

1. clap clap shuffle r, step r, clap march l, march r or clap clap pineapple clap pear pear

1 & 2 and a 3 & 4

shuffle l, step l, heel drop l, heel dig r, toe drop r, stamp l or peanut butter jelly bean

5 & 6 & 7 & 8

2. shuffle r, step r, heel drop r, stamp l, click heels together, heel drop l, heel drop r

1 & 2 & a 3 & 4

or peanut butter stamp, click heel heel

step l, brush right to sweeping in towards left and step on right, repeat step brush step,

5 & a 6 & a

step left, heel drop l, pick up left toe and hit it with right heel sweeping across to left, drop left toe,

7 e & a

stamp right foot crossing over left

3. Stamp r inverted, sweep the toe opening out, stamp l, sweep out, stamp r, sweep out, stamp l

1 & 2 & 3 & 4

Drawback (brush back l, heel drop r, step on the ball l) l , repeat r, repeat l, brush back r, heel drop

& a 5 & a 6, & a 7 e &

l, toe tap r behind left foot, heel drop l

a 8