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What is a bombshell? I've never heard that one before.
Variations following a Feather Finish
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elisedance
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Could I answer your original question with: 'any step led off the left foot'? If not perhaps its easier to list exceptions...
JoepiE
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JoepiE
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LF forward. Rondé with RF all the way thru to PP. Don't know what Prince of Wales is tho, do remember hearing it some time long ago.
contracheck
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Reverse Outside Swivel. Anybody heard of it? We practiced it for a couple of hrs last nite. The routine was Three Step - Natural Twist ending with Feather Finish - Reverse Outside Swivel.
Chris Stratton
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What rule would that be?
You wouldn't dance it the same way as in waltz, but with care most waltz actions (especially the ones without characteristic foot closure waltz rise) can be performed in a way appropriate to the character of foxtrot.
And don't forget that the tango version of the fallaway whisk is widely used, hopefully without rise and fall.
Generally speaking, other than in closed syllabus competition, what is "legal" is what the dancers can fit into the established idea of what a dance is about.
Chris Stratton
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Foxtrot adaptation of a syllabus tango figure. Tricky to learn though - to practice fully leading it you need to find someone aware of the possibility (so that they won't balk at the oustide partner to promenade transition) but not expecting it (so they won't rescue a bad lead)
Again-- a fairly common figure often introduced at the higher levels ( also used in Waltz )
Can also be dance from a rev.turn, lady left side
JoepiE
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On a comp long, long ago I had to improvise a piece of SF choreography (probably because I forgot what the choreography was in the first place
). A little bit of SW and a lot of nothing and... a whisk... Feeling really good about myself because I managed to keep moving the entire dance and having actually led my lady I got of the floor. Only to get my as... behind kicked by my coach ... because of the whisk.I'm exaggerating, it was not that bad, but she told me a whisk cannot be danced in SF, because it disrupts the flow in rise and fall. Now I'm thinking of it and dancing it in my room, I'm not really sure if she's totally right, because, as you say, you could change the R&F, as is done with every figure borrowed from waltz, or tango.
And about the legal thing: You're totally right, but don't tell the others. I'm supposed to be the judge of this game here, I have to think of my credibility!! Please keep it quite... :?
JoepiE
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Hey tangotime, are you gonna explain us how to preform a spledid Prince of Wales? I might just try to stun everyone with it on the nationals this year. And don't tell me to flap my ears and eat scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding, mushrooms, baked beans, hash browns, and half a tomato for breakfast.
(source: wikipedia
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(source: wikipedia
)It is not always a case of whether transitional moves can be made-- more the Q-- do they support the integrity of the dance ?--
Pretty much all coaches ( including myself ) prefer to leave it in the other 3---- had it been totally acceptable, it might have been included in Rev. tech. as a basic figure .
Hey tangotime, are you gonna explain us how to preform a spledid Prince of Wales? I might just try to stun everyone with it on the nationals this year.
And don't tell me to flap my ears and eat scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding, mushrooms, baked beans, hash browns, and half a tomato for breakfast.
( Oh-- come on-- ya know ya enjoy that )
(source: wikipedia
Curving Feather to Back Feather to Feather finish ( the Prince of Wales emblem-- is 3 feathers -- hence the name )