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What is West Coast Swing?
Related to east coast swing or jive rhythms
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What is a "Chase"?
A figure where one partner pursues the other. Popular in Cha Cha
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What is a "abby"?
There is normal, then there is __________ normal
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walking steps, side steps, rocking steps, triple steps
What are the four elements of dance?
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What is a hand?
Give yourself a __________
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What is American Tango?
This dance was adopted features of both Argentine and International or English Tango
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What is a fan?
Circular motion of the free foot. Known as swivel in Tango.
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What is above?
There is a war ________ the waist and below the waist
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closed, open, promenade, sweetheart, and cuddle
What are the most common dance frames?
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What is a mistake?
I know every ______ you will make before you make it.
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What is Cha Cha?
This dance was developed in Haiti and in Cuba and migrated to the US in the 1950's
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What is "footwork"?
The use of the five positions of the feet in dancing
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What is a frame?
Drop your _________ for a minute
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open break, cross body lead, cross over breaks, outside partner, and side to side
What are the 5 repeatable dance movements?
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What are feet, shoulders?
Don't look at my ______, look at my ______
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What is Waltz?
The origins of this dance go back hundreds of years. Especially at the beginning of the 20th Century. The slower version was exhibited
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What is an "inside turn"?
The follower turns to the left under the leaders left hand or turns to the right under the leaders right hand
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What is a fork?
Do it again before I stick a _______ in you
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american waltz, foxtrot, tango, viennese waltz
What are considered smooth style dances?
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What is talking, listen?
I would never single anyone out, but the people _____ are the ones who need to ______
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What is Foxtrot?
Slow, elegant, gliding dance
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What is a "rock"?
Two weight changes with the feet apart, taken in any direction
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What is dance/planet?
You can do this in every _______ on the _______
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Rumba, cha cha, bolero, mambo and swing
What are considered the most common Rhythm dances?
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What is skin, nose?
No _____ off your ______
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What is fast?
Everyone goes too _______
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