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2. Quickstep - Wikipedia

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   The quickstep is a light-hearted dance of the standard ballroom dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. The upbeat melodies that quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events. Its origins are in combination of slow foxtrot combined with the Charleston, a ...

3. Ballroom dance - Wikipedia

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   Ballroom dance is a set of European partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.

4. FoxTrot - Wikipedia

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   Publisher (s) Andrews McMeel Publishing. Genre (s) Humor, Family, Pop Culture. FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend. The strip launched on April 10, 1988, and it originally ran seven days a week. From December 31, 2006 onwards, FoxTrot has only appeared on Sundays.

5. Peabody (dance) - Wikipedia

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   Description. The Peabody is a brisk dance that covers a lot of space on the dance floor. Danced to almost any 2/4 or 4/4 ragtime tune of appropriate tempo, it is essentially a fast one-step, with long, gliding strides and a few syncopations. The leader changes sides as he travels around the floor and adds promenades and simple turns as the ...

6. The Chairman Dances - Wikipedia

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   The Chairman Dances. The Chairman Dances is a 1985 composition by John Adams, [1] subtitled Foxtrot for Orchestra and lasting about 13 minutes. A commission from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, it has several dance-like tunes and has been described by Adams as an "outtake" from Act III of the opera he was working on at the time, Nixon in ...

7. Cross-step waltz - Wikipedia

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   Cross-step waltz (originally, the French Valse Boston) is a social ballroom dance in triple ⓘ time, performed primarily in closed position, to slower tempo waltz music (around 110 to 120 beats per minute ). It is characterized by a "primary cross-step" where the Lead role crosses the right foot over the left, as the Follow role crosses the ...

8. Turkey trot (dance) - Wikipedia

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   The turkey trot was a dance made popular in the early 1900s. The Turkey Trot was done to fast ragtime music popular in the decade from 1900 to 1910 such as Scott Joplin 's Maple Leaf Rag. Driven largely by youth counterculture of the time, the turkey trot fad quickly fell out of favor as the foxtrot, a much more conservative dance step based on ...

9. Country-western two-step - Wikipedia

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   Country-western two-step. The country/western two-step, often called the Texas two-step[2] or simply the two-step, [3] is a country/western dance usually danced to country music in common time. "Traditional [Texas] two-step developed, my theory goes, because it is suited to fiddle and guitar music played two-four time with a firm beat [found in ...