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West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of partner connection and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor. The dance allows for both partners to improvise steps while dancing together, putting West Coast Swing in a short ...
Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that have survived beyond that era include Charleston , Balboa , Lindy Hop , and Collegiate Shag .
Together with the slot, it is the most distinguishing element of West Coast Swing when compared to other swing dances. In its standard form, the anchor step consists of three steps with the syncopated rhythm pattern “1-and-2” (counted, e.g., as “5-and-6” in 6-beat dance moves) and the general directions of steps “back, replace, back ...
She eventually married Frank in 1963 and was inducted into California Swing Dance Hall of Fame in 1996. Watch as she shows off her stunning moves with fellow dancers Chong Chan Meng, Remy Kouakou ...
Chicago Stepping is a slotted dance. The dance bears similar characteristics to New York Hustle and West Coast Swing. The follower is typically kept traveling up and down the lane. Patterns like "roll out and rollback" describe the action in the slot or lane. The lane belongs to the follower and the leaders travel on, off and around the slot or ...
A Coaster Step is a term used in swing dancing which originated in Lindy swing. During the last two beats of a rhythm pattern, the follower rotated 90° to be perpendicular to the leader, then stepped back, together, and forward in triple-rhythm (three weight changes in two beats of music), then rotated back to face the leader and to be ready to step forward as the leader led the follower in ...
The 2009–10 season was the final season in which the segment was included in International Skating Union (ISU) junior and senior level competition. In June 2010, the ISU replaced the name "compulsory dance" with "pattern dance" for ice dance, and merged it into the short dance (SD) beginning in the 2010–11 figure skating season.
The style dance is very similar in structure to the short dance in Figure skating, and from 2018 was one of 2 segments in international roller dance competition, with the free dance. The patterns for most dances either cover one-half or one full circuit of the rink.