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Is there a name for this quickstep figure?

My girlfriend/dance partner and I have been having a disagreement on how to use the free leg while dancing. My view is that in the swing dances (waltz, foxtrot, viennese waltz, and quickstep), the free leg is highly useful for balance. It nearly always remains in contact with the floor and...

Due to foundation repairs, I had to remove my old wood dance floor from the living room area of my house. I had originally installed that floor myself about 25 years ago. The old flooring was of the sort that removing it damaged it to the point that I'd rather just put in a new floor...

In "The Ballroom Technique" the tango walk is discussed on page 98. They mention the backward walk in a few places. So presumably such a walk is part of the syllabus. But in the precede and follow sections for the various tango figures, only once is a backward walk mentioned and that is for...

Here is what I consider a fantastic video of top-level Russian dancers dancing seemingly syllabus figures only to very slow foxtrot music: . This video which is 21 minutes long has been broken into separate videos for each couple, which I will reference below. Please help me put figure names...

There seems to be a great discrepancy between what different instructors say about what I'd categorize as CBM usage in figures like the natural turn. For the natural turn, for most discussions I've heard, it is recommended to wait until your weight is over the foot (man) before rotating. Yet...

Edita Gozzoli has posted several videos recently where couples were dancing to very non-traditional music. For example, a dance was foxtrot, but the song wasn't a foxtrot but rather some slow pop type song with a non-swinging rhythm that is normally expected for a foxtrot. Also Vasily Kirin...

I would like to organize various lesson videos on my iphone for quick lookup and retrieval. Any suggestions? It would be nice to annotate each video with figure names, etc.

I like Ferruggia's dancing, but as I was watching YouTube videos, I noticed a recent viennese waltz they did (2018) was identical to the routine they did in 2015, except for a change after 1 minute. And this routine included a lot of odd stuff that most people don't do. They got first place...

Check this out: . Mirko apparently in a competition, does foxtrot figures and various odd stuff in Viennese Waltz. I guess he can get away with this. Interesting in the least.

A friend told me the WDSF has a very expanded syllabus for viennese waltz; however, the WDSF website shows the same figures that have been around forever: https://www.worlddancesport.org/Rule/Athlete/Competition/Syllabus. Can someone post the syllabus if they have easy access to it or point me...

https://loopvideos.com/BALQGfTPu6M&from=12&to=30 Here's my take on the figures here, Please help me put names to the unknowns: 1) Overturned double reverse spin 2) Hover corte 3) right foot lunge 4) ? 5) ? (the bouncing natural turns) 6) ? 7) ? (kick) 8) ? 9) reverse turn

I was just watching a video of a smooth championship competition. At one point the guy dips the women and she does a high kick with everything exposed in embarrassing detail. Maybe they didn't expect the camera to be pointing right in their direction and the lighting to be such that all...

Both of my instructors have said that around 3& (half way between 3 and 1), the feet should comes together so that you are balanced and so of in a neutral position before driving on 1. One of instructors refers to this as "collecting." When I watch Mirko dance, however, I don't see this at...

Of my two instructors, one says connection is at the hip and upper thigh and the other says it more at the lower rib cage. Which is more correct?

I want to change my user name, but can't figure out how to do this. Help appreciated.

Check out this video: I've been struggling to get pivots down and did a youtube search on them and came up with this. Their idea on how to do pivots is quite different from what I've ever heard. And theirs looks really good. I'm curious what people on this forum think. Is there anything...

Do they allow this sort of stuff?

The is a Youtube video of Mirko and Allesia dancing waltz in Japan in 2008. What are the names of the figures starting at these times: 0:36 1:15 1:17 1:19 2:11 2:13 Thanks!

Reading in "The ballroom Technique" for Quick Step progressive chasse (PC) following patterns, I have questions on two of them: 1) Quick Open Reverse (QOR). Is my interpretation correct that the full 5 steps of the PC are taken before the first step of QOR? Seems like step 5 of PC would...