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Dance Routine - Foxtrot
Posted by skipper
4/5/2004  7:12:00 PM
This is the foxtrot routine an ISTD fellow teacher sets for beginner class:

Feather Step
Reverse turn, lady outside
Three Step
Curve Feather
Back Feather
Three Step
Feather Step
Change of Direction (making a full turn facing DC of new LOD, thus repeating the line again)

I would consider this a bit too difficult for beginner. Any comments and suggestion would be welcome.

I also invite senior dancers contribute dance routine in this forum, so that the less experienced may benefit from studying the routines.

Have a nice time and Happy dancing!

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Skipper
Re: Dance Routine - Foxtrot
Posted by Dronak
4/5/2004  9:54:00 AM
I agree, that's too difficult for beginners. The Curved Feather to Back Feather is gold syllabus. It shouldn't be in a beginner, bronze syllabus routine. How do you follow a Back Feather with a Three Step? You're doing a Feather Finish in between? I think that should be written. I don't think the Reverse Turn (with Feather Finish), Lady Outside is syllabus either. It's probably being done to avoid the lady's heel turn. I guess that's OK if you're not in a competition that's being invigilated where you can get disqualified for dancing non-syllabus figures. And the Change of Direction would be 1/2 turn, not a full turn, right? You're reversing direction with a 180 degree turn, not doing a complete 360 degree turn to face the same way you started, right?. For fun this routine is probably OK, but it avoids heel turns, a key aspect of foxtrot, and has gold syllabus figures in there. I'd probably try getting the heel turns in with a normal Reverse Turn and Feather Finish (lady in line, not outside) and use maybe a Natural Weave, which also has a heel turn, in place of the Curved Feather to Back Feather. In one of the last group classes I took, this is what was given as a bronze routine. BTW, it wasn't supposed to be a bronze level class, but the students were of such varied levels that the teacher had to start from the bottom.

Feather Step / Reverse Turn w/ Feather Finish / Three Step / Natural Weave / 1-4 Reverse Turn w/ Feather Finish (as the long side combination)

Basic Weave / Three Step / 1-3 Natural Turn / Closed Impetus at corner, underturned (as the short side combination)

Looking at it now though, I don't quite see how you'd get from the short side's Closed Impetus back into the long side routine. Maybe you're supposed to do a Feather Finish in place of the Feather Step. I guess that would work.

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