Am I the only one who missed out on "Canter Rhythm"?
Oddly enough, I see the term in Skippy Blair's Dance Terminology Notebook from 1994.
(1) Canter Rhythm is double rhythm in 3/4 time. It was a popular Waltz Rhythm in the 1930's, but is seldom used today except in pivots.
(2) describes stepping on 1 3 4 6 for Canter pivots, and 1 3 for "double rhythm".
No one has taught me the Canter pivot (now they don't have to), but I haven't been able to find many references to valse in the AT world.
Canter rhythm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canter time,
canter timing or
canter rhythm is a two-beat regular rhythmic pattern of a
musical instrument or in
dance steps within
3/4 time music. The term is borrowed from the
canter horse gait, which sounds three hoof beats followed by a pause, i.e., 3 accents in 4/4 time.
In
waltz dances it may mark the 1st and the 4th
eighths of the
measure, producing a
2/4 time overlay beat over the 3/4 time. In other words, when a 3/4 measure is
cued as "1,2,&,3,...", the canter rhythm marks "1" and "&". This rhythm is the basis of the
Canter Waltz. In modern
ballroom dancing, an example is Canter Pivot in
Viennese Waltz.
In
Vals (a 3/4 style of
Tango), the canter rhythm is also known as
medio galope[1] (which actually means "
canter" in Spanish) and may accent beats 1 and 2 of the 3/4 measure.
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