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Foxtrot The Fox-trot originated during the summer of 1914 in the Jardin de Danse on the roof of the New York Theatre. Harry Fox, a Vaudeville actor, was doing trotting steps to ragtime music in his act downstairs, and people on the rooftop referred to his dance as "Fox's Trot." Dancers imitated his unusual moves and the foxtrot was born. The Foxtrot style was polished by American, G.K. Anderson and his partner Josephine Bradley, when they traveled to London and won many competitions. Foxtrot has a combination of quick and slow steps, slow syncopated 4/4 rhythm, "on the spot" and "traveling" steps, allowing more flexibility and greater dancing pleasure than one-step and two-step dancing done before. |
| Quick Step During the 1920s many orchestras played the Foxtrot too fast and the couples on the dance floor couldn't keep up. Over time, this fast Foxtrot absorbed elements of ragtime, such as the Charleston, and the new dance was named the Quickstep. |
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