A teacher is showing this step in waltz going up on the balls of her feet with her legs apart-and staying apart for the three count and then finishing with the closing of feet together like bronze.
I can't find any info on the subject. She claims it is int'l gold. She claims it looks better than the silver. Any thoughts?

I normally close the feet together, but I think it depends/varies from person to person, or am I wrong on this?

I was taught to close my feet in bronze and do a brush step in silver. I don't know gold

What she's doing may in fact be an open gold Int'l variation, but I can't quite tell what it is the way it's described. At any rate, to answer your question in more general terms, there is no such thing as a "Gold Twinkle" per se. As others have mentioned, there are foot closing and foot passing actions, typically being deemed bronze and silver level, respectively. This is not limited to Twinkles; It applies to almost all actions in the American style smooth syllabus, such as basic Naturals, Reverses, Changes, etc.

Many people have their own interpretations or variations of figures. When such an interpretation is minor, such as a slight variation on sway or a turn of the head, it's considered artistic license. But when it's too great a departure from the basic figure, it would be considered a separate figure, and therefore "out of syllabus". In the pro-am competition world, non-syllabus events are labeled Open Gold, and so a teacher might label any such variation "Gold". I suspect this is the case here.

Regards,
Jonathan

The left foot goes forward and rising-the right goes side and rising -the a quick weight change back to the left while still on the balls of the feet. The feet are spread the normal distance during this portion-then finishing with feet together.
Is this a clearer picture?. Thanks for the input

"The left foot goes forward and rising-the right goes side and rising -the a quick weight change back to the left while still on the balls of the feet. The feet are spread the normal distance during this portion-then finishing with feet together.
Is this a clearer picture?. Thanks for the input"

How do you finish with the feet together if you return your weight to the left foot while the feet are still apart?

Perhaps the feet are only temporarily together, while the right foot is on its way from the position of step 2 to the position of step 1 of the next figure? If so, that would be categorized as passing the feet rather than closing them.

Normally, in a "closed" figure having three steps, the third step consists of the foot closing to the position of the 2nd.