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  • We begin with the basic step.

  • Facing each other, by ourselves, man and ladies step.

  • Gentlemen, were going to start you off, always, with the left foot.

  • The ladies, start you off, always, with the right foot.

  • We begin. Gentlemen,

  • walk forward 2 steps, lady walks back 2 steps,

  • andwalk, walk. A little sidestep,

  • men’s left foot, lady’s right foot, close the feet, change weight.

  • And we count, slow..slow..quick-quick.

  • In reverse, meaning the ladies will now come forward,

  • and the gentlemen will go back. Same rule,

  • always start with the men’s left, always start with the ladiesright,

  • and slow..slow..quick-quick. As you can see,

  • we have two halves of a basic step: the forward half,

  • and the back half. When one partner goes forward,

  • the other partner goes back. We now join together.

  • Dance hold, as in the other dances, offset to the left, right foot point between

  • our partnersfeet would be perfect, and we have

  • and slow..slow..quick-quick, slow..slow..quick-quick.

  • If we do it facing you, and we have

  • and slow..slow..quick-quick (x4). Weve already given you a description of

  • the dance hold, so we don’t need to do that again.

  • With basic, the important thing is, once again, staying off to your own left side

  • looking over each other’s shoulders, fairly close together.

  • Don’t have too much space because too much space will cause the two partners to separate

  • easily, and we don’t want that.

  • We want to stay together. Yeah?

  • Now, well show that to you with the music. Basic step to Foxtrot.

  • And as you can see, what we did was gently curve it around the

  • room, counter-clockwise.

  • And this is how people always move around the room,

  • counter-clockwise, in these dances called thestandard

  • dances orsmoothdances. So the Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Viennese

  • Waltz, called thestandarddances,

  • all move around the room counter-clockwise.

We begin with the basic step.

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