Quickstep

The quickstep ( English and traditional notation: Quick Step ) is a standard dance has evolved from Foxtrot and Onestepp. The original English wording Quick One Step Foxtrot and was contracted and the name Quickstep ( in Reformed Spelling quickstep ) established itself. The quickstep is danced as one of the five standard dances worldwide on any standard tournament last.

Characteristics and technology

The quickstep is supposed to express overflowing joy of life and is after the tournament and sports -order (TSO ) is the last of the five standard dances in tournaments. He is referred to by dancers as the " champagne of dances " to characterize the Sparkling and Joyful dance. Simple jumps and usually quickly danced poses, in which the dancers radiate joy, are also a part of the quickstep.

The quickstep is sideways danced instead of with two long forward steps and two short lateral steps ( as in the simpler foxtrot ), with a long forward step and a Chassé (fast, fast, long) and is flowing through the more laterally directed movement as the foxtrot. Also außenseitliche positions of the partners are more common.

The technique of Quick Steps is quite similar to that of the slow waltz. Here is a strong lifting and lowering available, this vonstattengeht rather terraced. Also the phases of rising and falling fall through the speed of the music faster than in the Slow Waltz. If a step is used for lifting, so the foot is unrolled from the heel to the ball, while the knees are not stretched. When lowering the procedure is opposite from the next bale weight is transferred to the entire foot. The high steps are danced with a stretched foot, but still executed knee slightly bent. The momentum that is built up by the first step, runs in contrast to the Slow Waltz not in turns, but rather in a continuous motion.

Typical basic figures

Rhythm and music

The music of the quickstep has evolved over the foxtrot from the Ragtime and the Charleston and has, in contrast to the other so-called swing dances, Waltz, Viennese Waltz and Slow Foxtrot, a strong rhythmic component. So a quickstep can not do without a percussion accompaniment. It is on the hi-hat or a basin played a pulse in the form of quarters, in each case the second and fourth quarters are divided ternary ( 1-to- 2 ) (see also Shuffle). If the pulse played on a pool, the hi-hat can be used on beats two and four, which does not make use of the snare drum then required. Alternatively, two and four subtle emphasis on the latter blows. The bass drum finally plays on beats one and three, or more rarely, on all four strokes. The drums is complemented by the bass, which largely plays either half or 4tel notes without big jumps. As in Jive takes this "walking bass " significantly to the character of the music.

The quickstep is different from Jive in some significant points. First, the beats are two and four not so strongly accentuated as in the Jive. Another important distinction is the division of the notes. While divided in Jive the first and third beat are the quickstep in the second and fourth. This predetermined by the 4/4-time stresses are amplified to one and three in the quickstep. In contrast, the division of Jive for emphasis of the accents on beats two and four.