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Old January 31, 2015, 02:33 PM
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Contonear las caderas

I made a list of actions about a musical video and I have a question
Is contornear la cintura rotate your hips?
can anybody have a look at the sentences and tell me if there is a better way to express it.
1. The boy arrives driving a convertible car
2. She´s waiting eagerly for him holding a cat in her arms
3. She walks down the stairs slowly contorning/rotating her hips to greet him
4. They have a toast while having luch
5. They dance and ride a bike, dance again and ride a bike again
6. She does a painting of him
7. They go for a walk with the dogs
8. They go horse riding
9. She´s admiring her paintings
10. They write their names on a tree
11. They ´re on a picnic
12. They start fighting
13. She throws the boy´s mobile in the water out of jealousy
14. She wrecks his portrait, his shirt and his trousers
15. They bite an apple and he spit it out
16. She damages his car
17. She ´s standing on a horse
18. She cuts the tree with an ax
19. He leaves the mansion
20. Somebody else arrives to fill her blank space again.
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Old January 31, 2015, 03:52 PM
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Contonear las caderas -> to sway one's hips.
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1. The boy arrives, driving a convertible.
2. She´s waiting eagerly for him, holding a cat in her arms.
3. She walks down the stairs slowly to greet him, swaying her hips.
4. They have a toast while having lunch.
5. They dance and ride a bike, dance again and ride a bike again.
6. She does a painting of him.
7. They go for a walk with the dogs.
8. They go horseback riding.
9. She´s admiring her paintings.
10. They carve their names on a tree.
11. They´re on a picnic.
12. They start fighting.
13. She throws the boy´s cell phone in the water, out of jealousy.
14. She ruins his portrait, his shirt and his trousers.
15. They bite an apple and he spits it out.
16. She damages his car.
17. She´s standing on a horse.
18. She cuts the tree with an ax.
19. He leaves the mansion.
20. Somebody else arrives to fill her blank space again.
Sentences end in a period (full stop). You got it right on the twentieth one.
Speaking of sentence number twenty, I'm not sure I understood it. Do you mean that someone else came to take her place (fill the void)?
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Old February 02, 2015, 02:09 AM
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Yes fill the void because the name of the song is Blank space.
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