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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.
Sequence dancing is a competitive sport as well as a social pastime. The British Sequence Championships is the most famous annual sequence dance competition and is part of the Blackpool Sequence Dance Festival. This is held in the Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, since 1949. [2]
[2] 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.
Printable version; In other projects ... Waltz dance moves (11 P) W. Waltzes (2 C, 53 P) Pages in category "Waltz" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of ...
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.
4 ⓘ time, but some dance manuals, like Geoffrey D'Egville's 1919 How and What to Dance in London suggested that the Cross Step "may be introduced into the Waltz," which essentially turned this foxtrot step into cross-step waltz. [3] In D'Egville's foxtrot version of this step, as in Norman's Cross Walk Boston, the Lead crossed his left foot ...
The double reverse spin is a ballroom dance move used in the waltz and the quickstep. It typically rotates a full turn in one measure of music, although it can rotate anywhere from 3 ⁄ 4 to a full turn.
In California, the waltz was banned by Mission priests until 1834 because of the "closed" dance position. [22] Thereafter a Spanish Waltz was danced. This Spanish Waltz was a combination of dancing around the room in closed position, and a "formation" dance of two couples facing each other and performing a sequence of steps. [22] "Valse a Trois ...