Quicksands
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Steps: quickstep |
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2 couples line dance |
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Music notes
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Our sailor has been to
We dance for the pleasure so you are free to select a
relaxed informal hold etc.
Start: all
couples stand in the line of dance (lod) after one another: Lady (L) to the
right of Gent (G). Every second couple turn around so 2 couples face one
another: in the big lod circle in the ballroom (or in a long straight line). L
stands to the right of her G and faces her corner G = the opposite G. At the
end of the dance G+L has moved forward to face a new couple.
The dance
consists of 4 parts: circle, couple dance with corner, chain, couple dance with
partner:
1 circle clockwise and anticlockwise,
walking steps or quicksteps
2 quickstep couple dance with corner the
circle around, zig zag ¼ turns
3 chain 1 round walking steps or
quicksteps
4 quickstep couple dance with own partner
to opposite place, ready to face a new couple
bar no
1-6 Circle of the 2 couples, holding
hands, clockwise and anticlockwise, walking steps or walking with quicksteps.
7-12 Couple dance with corner: full
round of the circle, zig zag ¼ turn basic quickstep.
13-16 Chain (G anticlockwise): right hand
(rh) to corner-partner, then lh to own partner, then
corner, then stop by own partner ready for:
17-18 Pendulum swing with own partner,
with fast transition to:
19-22 Couple dance with own partner to
opposite place: promenade with and without lock step, ¼ left turn basic
quickstep G lf back, then forward right turn quickstep to place facing the new
couple.
Alternativ
to pendulum and promenade, close hold:
17-18 Stand and step like the melody: G: lf
rf, lrlr (2 slow + 4 quick).
19-22 ¼ turn zig zag basic to opposite
place.
Dance
ends in bar 6 with circle or substituted by couple dance out into the ballroom.
Quickstep basic
steps, basic figure:
We dance quickstep as shown on the dance instruction video
of Freddie-Pedersen.
We count slow
quick quick slow, which fits with 6/4. G: walk forward right foot (rf) slow, then
chasse to left lf rf lf quick quick slow.
Next step is the same.
When we walk in a circle we walk this way, both G and
L.
Dance with close hold: L follows G. G: while taking
the steps forward: walk 1 chasse we
have ¼ right turn. Then the next step is rf backward walk 1 chasse with ¼ left turn. In this
way we dance zig zag in lod. (So walk
step is always rf).
The music here is made for this type of quickstep.
(Some dance quickstep in the same
way as fast foxtrot see the dances 15 and 16 Foxy furs and Foxy games).
Promenade:
Close hold. G: forward rf, L:
rf back. Then G: ¼ left turn L: ¼ right turn so both face forward (to the side)
and side by side step 1chasse forward.
Next promenade: G and L walk side by side slow, then G
and L face each other with side chasse forward.
Chasse can be with lock step: G: lf forward, rf forward crossing behind lf, lf forward quick quick slow.
Pendulum swing:
Close hold. G:
stand on rf and swing lf out left, then stand on lf and swing rf out, slowly in
17 and fast in 18 with small jumps, and fast transition to next step
(promenade). L follows G.
Quickstep music is usually in 4/4 alla breve. But I
have chosen to make it 6/4 because the quickstep dance is 6/4; except in bar
17-18 where the dance is 4/4. The melody fits note by
note with the dance steps.
Accordion: beats pr bar: 3 + 3 in 6/4 as a first
simple proposal, and 2 + 2 in 4/4.
These quicstep figures and steps can be seen explained
(in Danish) by: Søs & Mickey Freddie-Pedersen: Flyt sofaen & dans med,
1995 (on 4 videoes Copenhagen Main Library).