Slow fox trot fox
Name slow fox trot fox is widespread in France and Germany, while in England this dance takes the name of Foxtrot.
The slow fox trot-fox appeared in France in 1917, when the " boys" American fought the armies of Kaiser Guillaume He at the sides of the allies. With the the United States, it had been known for a few years and, as for many other dances, it occurred among the black population of Harlem to New York.
Its influences, in the beginning, were paradoxically Négro-piritual, the One-step and Rag. Later, the white took the changing and general pace assagit whereas the rates/rhythms which, at the beginning, were rather slow, accelerated.
In the Twenties, the Orchestre S played to 180 beats metronomes and, for such different tempos, only one and single dance were not enough. There were on the one hand Quick Fox-Trot (which became later the Quickstep) and, on the other hand, the Foxtrot.
They are the English professors and dancers who went, with the wire of time, to enrich this dance and to give him its current structure finally. The most important steps of the Slow fox trot-Fox are " 3 pas " , the " chassé" and especially " the plume" who characterizes certainly more this dance. This last step made however its appearance only with the Championship of the world of 1922 with London.
To dance the Slow fox trot-Fox perfectly, it is essential to give to its interpretation an always moving pace, very fluid, without downtime, while evolving/moving much.
The Slow fox trot-Fox or Foxtrot is a dance of competition among the standards, most difficult according to the experts because it is excluded to differently learn it than with a professor. However, each dancer having seized subtleties of this dance will affirm that it is a dream to dance it.
The tempo of the Slow fox trot-Fox is of 30 measurements per minute, measurements at 4 times.
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