Dancing a quick open reverse the head moves a lot less than the feet,in fact to me it feels like the head is almost stationary and that by moving the head as little possable we create more sway?

"Dancing a quick open reverse the head moves a lot less than the feet"

Agree about the head, but not about the feet. Don't turn your feet until you arrive on step 2 when going forward, at which point you would have to have turned your head as well. Going backwards you will turn a bit earlier.

cdroge. I take it that you are doing a Quick Open Reverse in the Quickstep International Style from a Progresive Chasse. You are looking left. If you keep your head still and turn with the body you will be still looking left when you enter the Quick Open Reverse.. If you allow your head to keep fixed looking diag. to centre the body will turn under your head and you will finish looking on your partners side If you keep looking to your left, the head turning with your body and stop, the head will be as it was in your original setup. Same situation in the first three of the Natural Turn Waltz. If at the completion of beat three the head has forgot to turn with the body you will be looking against the LOD instead of to the left. I'll keep on with this. As a man turning into a promenade ( Open Imputus )there is no need to turn the head to the left it is already there.

Sorry everyone. I was not refering to the turn of the head but that the head travels a lot less than the feet when moving from a forward to a backward position in the QOR of the waltz,foxtrot etc. IF we move the head back with the feet to soon we will not get as much sway.It feels to me that the head weight is almost stationary while the body moves under it. This is also true "if I am correct" in the turn of a running weave and other figures?

"Sorry everyone. I was not refering to the turn of the head but that the head travels a lot less than the feet when moving from a forward to a backward position in the QOR of the waltz,foxtrot etc. IF we move the head back with the feet to soon we will not get as much sway.It feels to me that the head weight is almost stationary while the body moves under it. This is also true "if I am correct" in the turn of a running weave and other figures? "

It's true in general for any pendulum swing - your head is higher up the string than your hips. Just be carefull that it is your hips (or really a bit higher, your low center) and not your feet which are the pendulum bob.

Annon,the pendulum bob I believe that you refer to is between the second and third step of a waltz QORT.The normal sway from the feet taking place between steps one and two if we count the first step as the LF?