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Quickstep "Quick Step" dance rhythm figure. [1] 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.
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.
Victor Marlborough Silvester OBE (25 February 1900 [1] – 14 August 1978) [2] was an English dancer, writer, musician and bandleader from the British dance band era. He was a significant figure in the development of ballroom dance during the first half of the 20th century, and his records sold 75 million copies from the 1930s through to the 1980s.
In Europe the two-step became popular from around 1900 until the 1910s, when the one-step and the foxtrot took over. [4] Other examples of two-step marches include Louis Conterno's Red Clouds March Two Step and Nellie Beamish's Thirteenth National Regiment March and Two Step.
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 dance progresses.
The impetus is a ballroom dance step used in the waltz, foxtrot or quickstep.The open impetus is one of several ways to get into promenade position and is used to turn dancers around corners or change their direction on the dance floor.
After World War I, Americans brought their foxtrot and blues dance steps to Paris, where Parisian dance teachers observed and described the variations. The first descriptions appeared in Parisian dance and music magazines (such as La Baionnette [ 5 ] and Musica-Album [ 6 ] ) in 1919, then in dance manuals beginning in 1920 (for example, Toutes ...
In "Dance Mad" by F. Leslie Clendenen (August 15, 1914) the following appears on page 163: "FOX TROT No.2 (as danced by Mr Fox)". Harry Fox made a few recordings of popular songs and appeared in a few silent films, most notably the serial Beatrice Fairfax with Grace Darling.