Why is the Quickstep Chasse Reverse Turn not just Called Reverse Turn?
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DanceMentor
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So imagine a Progressive Chasse to diag center. The last step is side and slightly forward facing LOD and moving toward DC. That step is Toe Heel. From the TH landing step, spring into a side together, back. There is some turn from that left TH step (last step of the progressive chasse and first step of the chasse reverse) in addition to the spring. It is very much a chasse feeling action. It was typically followed by a heel pivot.
In Victor Sylvester's Modern Ballroom Dancing from 1974 it shows the first step as being Toe Heel for the man. Interestingly, it becomes Heel Toe in Alex Moore's Ballroom Technique. Victor Sylvester's book incorporates the Heel Pivot and it is 7 steps starting and ending with the man's left foot. Alex Moore's book just uses 3 steps ending with the closing of the RF for the man.
In Victor Sylvester's Modern Ballroom Dancing from 1974 it shows the first step as being Toe Heel for the man. Interestingly, it becomes Heel Toe in Alex Moore's Ballroom Technique. Victor Sylvester's book incorporates the Heel Pivot and it is 7 steps starting and ending with the man's left foot. Alex Moore's book just uses 3 steps ending with the closing of the RF for the man.
Warren J. Dew
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The chasse reverse turn is the first half of a reverse turn, followed by a chasse to the left.
The regular reverse turn has a back half that is a heel pivot, as DanceMentor says.
The regular reverse turn has a back half that is a heel pivot, as DanceMentor says.
DanceMentor
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Actually, I was referring to the Chasse Reverse Turn being followed by a heel pivot as a syllabus step pre-"ballroom technique" book.
caw
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The book doesn't say the Chasse Reverse Turn need be followed by a Chasse Left. In fact, it gives the follows: Progressive Chasse - Reverse Pivot, Four Quick Run, Hover Corte.
And there is no regular Reverse Turn in the syllabus.
The 2011 revision of the IDTA Technique (still attributing the misprints to Guy Howard) has dropped the name (and the last four steps of a Quarter Turn to L) and just calls it a Reverse Turn. The Quarter Turn to L is not even mentioned as a follow, and has been relegated to the back of the book, and no longer features in the professional syllabus. The dance is being progressively dumbed down, sadly.
Warren J. Dew
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That depends on which syllabus you look at. For example, the one in the back of Henry Jaques's book includes it.
However, I was wrong about the difference, which is what I get from working from memory rather than looking things up. The difference is in the front half of the reverse turn; in the regular reverse turn, the front half is a lady's heel turn, with essentially the same footwork as a foxtrot heel turn. The chasse reverse turn then substitutes the side-together of a chasse action for the lady's heel turn.