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Harry Fox: Fox Trot
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The basic components of Fox Trot are walking steps and side steps. Crowded dance floors or night club conditions require that all three tempos be expressed with short steps. In larger ballrooms the slow Fox Trot is characterized by longer smooth, gliding steps, demanding ease of movement and control in order to give this dance an unhurried appearance.
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The Bronze Fox Trot is a progressive and turning dance moving along the Line of Dance. The figures described in Bronze level syllabi are taken with body flight and are designed for the larger ballroom floor. However these same figures are ... suited to the average nightclub floor when danced more compactly.
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Step into any jazz club on a Friday night, and you’re bound to hear a Fox Trot. It’s America’s favorite dance! Written in 4/4, it can be danced to most music types, whether slow or fast. If you can walk, you can dance the Fox Trot! It’s a traveling dance. Hitting the streets of New York City in the 1920’s, the Fox Trot emerged as a lively, bouncing dance which America’s youth went wild over.
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Supposedly, the first written mention of the Fox Trot was in the New York Times newspaper advertisement from M.B. Wilson Studios advertising lessons on dance including the Fox-trot (Arthur Murray worked here during that time as a teacher) In 1914, a piece of sheet music was created with the title "Original Foxtrot" by Jack
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Fox Trot music is written in 4/4 time. It is danced in combinations of Slow (S) and quick (q) steps, with each Slow (S) step being long and graceful, and each quick (q) step being short and lively. To hear an example of a Fox Trot rhythm, listen to track number 4, 5, or 6 on the Ballroom for Beginners CD.
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[T]here is sheet music dating before these times stating the words "Fox-Trot" such as "The Oriental Foxtrot" (1905) and the "The Get Together" (1908). However the most commonly believed date is 1914 and Fox as the creator.
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