There is exactly a 1/4 left turn ( from backing DC to Facing DW , lady in watlz, quick step .) in progressive chasse to Right . Why is it not called progressive chasse to left ?

Yichin 1. Where did you dig this one up. From the man's position the Quarter Turn goes to the left moving sideways. There is a quarter of a turn to the right starting diagonal to the wall within the four steps. Now you are facing diagnal to the wall against LOD. From her a Progresive Chasse will bring you back to facing diagonal to wall by making a quarter of a turn to the left. This is where you started. From here hold that line for a Lockstep finishing also diagonal to the wall. The Step that is called a Quarter Turn to the left is replaced by the progressive Chasse. Nobody does the Quarter Turn to the left anymore.

Maybe I skipped too much for this question.
This figure is called Progressive Casse to Right ( quickstep . lady part )
It was described as follows:
1 RF back TH backing DC start to turn L on 1 strat to rise e/o 1 NFR CBM 1 S

2 LF to side T pointing DW 1/4 between 1and 2, body less turn , continue to rise on 2 Q

3 RF closes to LF T, facing DW , slightly body turn on 3, continue to rise on 3 Q

4 LF to side and slightly fwd TH facing DW , no turn on 4, up on 4 lower e/o 4 S

Even I hit my head against the wall I found no hint toward the right nor right turn. Even the part of man , they all talked about the left turn 1/4. Help!

My question is why progressive chasse to right only has left turn.

The dancers are moving sidewards along the line of dance to the right. The sway (Tip) as you call it, is due to the amount of turn and cbm made to the left from the previous figure. Good dancers will travel a long way to the right,with flight,by pushing strongly from the standing left foot and moving from the left side rightwards. I hope this helps.

Thanks! John. Yes, It helped . In man point of view, this 1/4 left turn does not influence the moving way towards the right direction. I did limit my mind before your explanation. Furthermore it is possible traveling a LONG WAY to the "RIGHT" with high level technique.



I used unclear word, tip, the proper one should be " hint" here. I hope I am able to master Englihs like all of you in my life ahead which makes communication more effective.

Tell you a good news, I started learning more advanced technique ( I called it fine work .)in my known limited figures . It was rare , my coach lead me to center on just one to two steps 7-8 TIMES until both of us were satisfied. It touched me so.

Yichin1. You've Lost me here . Unless you are mistakenly refering to the man's steps. The man's Progressive Chasse usually starts backing diagonal to the centre. The reason for the quarter turn to the left is because the man has just completed a quarter of a turn to his right on the previous steps.You did say the ladies steps. I think you might have things slightly back to front. We are now on line for a lockstep. Man stepping out side parner in CBMP. diagonal to wall. So ladies you must also have and understand CBMP.

Going (to the man's) left in a chasse is the ordinary direction so the direction doesn't have to be mentioned.

And actually the quarter turn to left is still danced - I use it quite frequently after a spin turn, in place of the 456 waltz reverse which is not legal in quickstep, if I then want to go into a Double Reverse or something.

Anonymous. I can see where you are at. It is a good idea to have this in your bag of tricks. I found it is taught more in narrow studios than a large wide one for obvious reasons. The step you refer to has two steps and is called in the book a Heel Pivot, this keeps you in line with your partner. The lady though will do forward side together which is vey much like a waltz step for her. You are right in so much as it would be wrong when taking an examination or a medal for the man to just bring the feet together, back side together. But I will point out that in a competition these days you can do whatever you like as long as it looks good.

It is not true to say that you can do any thing you want in competition as long as it looks good. This is a broad statement. Yes, this may happen in competitions run by clubs,dance school of low standards,but in international sportdancing the rules are strict and what you can dance depends at what leval you dance in. In major competitions there is a judge just to verify that this does not happen and when it does there are penalities. This is not pro-am,I can't say what happens in pro-am

John. I should have mentioned that I was talking about for instance the Grand Professional Final of the British.
You are obviously refering to restrictive grade dancing. Which is a good thing. I wonder what your judges would do if they saw a couple perfoming a Wave in Foxtrot which moved half way around the hall with the lady in line the whole time. And to get on to Latin .In my book in the Rumba there is no New York. This one we see all of the time.