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Box step is a basic dance step named after the pattern it creates on the floor, which is that of a square or box. It is used in a number of American Style ballroom dances: rumba, [1] waltz, [2] bronze-level foxtrot. While it can be performed individually, it is usually done with a partner. This is the most common dance step in the waltz.
Dance patterns may be described according to combinations of quick and slow steps and often by the rhythm or meter of the music, for example waltz steps (three-count step patterns danced to waltz music), swing steps (four-count patterns danced to swing music), polka steps (four-count patterns danced to polka music), and shuffle steps (four ...
Chassé in ballet. The chassé (French:, French for 'chased'; sometimes anglicized to chasse / ʃ æ ˈ s eɪ, ʃ æ s /) is a dance step used in many dances in many variations. All variations are triple-step patterns of gliding character in a "step-together-step" pattern.
The chassé (, French for 'to chase'; sometimes anglicized to chasse / ʃ æ ˈ s eɪ, ʃ æ s /) is a waltz ballroom dance figure. Like chassés in other dances, it involves a triple-step where one foot "chases" the other in a "step-together-step" pattern. It is derived from a ballet step. [1]
For example, a basic practising variation in waltz goes as follows: Dance 1–6 steps of natural turn, then 1–3 steps of closed change from natural to reverse, then 1–6 steps of reverse turn, then 1–3 steps of closed change from reverse to natural, repeat until the music stops or partner drops.
The leader steps forward on either foot whilst the follower steps backward on the opposing foot (e.g.: the leader steps forward on their right foot whilst the follower steps back on their left). Both partners will then step to the side on the other foot, and conclude the figure by closing the first foot beside the second (hence the name "closed ...
Fleckerls are danced clockwise or counter-clockwise (natural or reverse), and the basic shape lasts for six steps (two three-note bars). The leader crosses his foot in front on steps 1 and 3, while crossing behind on step 5 and to the side on 2, 4 and 6, creating the pattern: in front, side, in front, side, behind, side.
There is no indication that Norman's step evolved into the modern cross-step waltz but it is an early example of a cross-step waltz. Cross-steps in general appeared between 1910 and the 1920s in the American one-step (the Snake Dip), Argentine tango (Cruzada, Ocho) and especially in the foxtrot (the Cross Step).