Quickstep Chasse Reverse Turn?

[Adwiz]

For the past couple of days something has been nagging at me and perhaps someone here can help.

I'm trying to remember what a Chasse Reverse Turn is in Quickstep and I can't for the life of me recall what it looks like. All I know is that it starts with the man backing the LOD and he should be on his right foot having just finished something like a hesitation change.

I also know that when this is done I should be Diagonal to the Wall so that I can do a Progressive Chasse to the left to put me back into the LOD.

Unfortunately the actual steps are right out of my head. I asked a couple of dancers at a social dance tonight if they could remember but they hadn't heard of that exact step although we discussed a couple of different ways to get to the Progressive Chasse. But I'd like to know the exact foot sequence. Anyone here know it?

[Larinda McRaven]

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[Hank]

Chasse Reverse turn for the man:

Feet position: left foot forward, right foot to the side, left foot closes to right foot.

Alignment: Facing diag. center, backing diag. wall, backing line of dance.

Footwork: heel-toe, toe, toe-heel.

Timing: slow quick quick.

Contrary body movement on 1.

Rise and Fall: rise end of 1, up on 2, lower end of 3.

Amount of turn: commence to turn left, 1/4 between 1-2, 1/4 between 2-3.

Preceding the chasse reverse turn: natural turn with hesitation, reverse pivot, double reverse spin.

Following the chasse reverse turn: progressive chasse, reverse pivot, four quick run, hover corte.

[pygmalion]

Holy cow, Hank. You've been reading (or memorizing) those pesky manuals again. :wink: Just kidding. Thanks. I was going to go review the video a former instructor made for my qucikstep class last year (if I could find it). He covered all the same stuff you just did. The patterns, the amount of turn, the alignments, the footwork. Cool. 8)

[Hank]

Reading the manual is very boring, and I certainly didn't learn to dance by reading it. But, it is helpful to review the manual periodically to ******* my memory and bring focus to my dancing.

[pygmalion]

Yeah. I'm just starting to use them myself. It's not all that easy to interpret the hieroglyphics, but it's good stuff nonetheless, and if I want to pass my ISTD exam one day, it's better to start sooner than later, I think. :D

[Adwiz]

Thanks, Hank!

I have the manuals for the Latin dances, but not for the Standard. Just placed my order for these now because I realized how valuable they are even for Standard.

Interesting that the sequence was one of the approaches we discussed last night, but nobody knew that this was officially called the Chasse Reverse Turn. Different people (one of them a teacher) called it different things.

[msc]

Unfortunately, as Hank suggested, the manuals are mostly useful as mnemonic devices.

I've only done the Chasse Reverse->Progressive Chasse combination. To pull it off gracefully at Quickstep speed requires an awful lot of swing through the Chasse Reverse. It's not easy, despite the seeming simplicity of the footwork.

[pygmalion]

Yup, msc, and from what I'm hearing, I'm going to need mnemonic devices to pass the ISTD student member exam. Is that right? Or should I not worry about it, and just learn the figures inside and out? I really need to know, if any of you out there have been through the testing process.