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The two-step is a step found in various dances, including many folk dances.
A two-step consists of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot. For example, a right two-step forward is a forward step onto the right foot, a closing step with the left foot, and a forward step onto the right foot. The closing step may be done directly beside the other foot, or obliquely beside, or even crossed, as long as the closing foot does not go past the other foot.
The two-step is often confused with the
The two-step is a step found in various dances, including many folk dances.
A two-step consists of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot. For example, a right two-step forward is a forward step onto the right foot, a closing step with the left foot, and a forward step onto the right foot. The closing step may be done directly beside the other foot, or obliquely beside, or even crossed, as long as the closing foot does not go past the other foot.
The two-step is often confused with the country/western two-step
The country/western two-step, often called the "Texas two-step" or simply the "two-step," is a country/western dance usually danced to country music in common time. "Traditional exastwo-step developed, my theory goes, because it is suited to ...
.Scheff, Helene; Sprague, Marty; and McGreevy-Nichols, Susan (2010). ''Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance'', p.222. Human Kinetics. . "There are really two histories of what is called 'two step dance,' because the name jumped from one type of dance that is no longer done to another that is done, called the Texas Two-step or collegiate Fox-trot. The original Two-step was a simple dance that caught on with the public when John Philip Sousa came out with the ' Washington Post March' in 1891."
See also
* Triple step * Lock step *Dance move
Dance moves or dance steps (more complex dance moves are called dance patterns, dance figures, dance movements, or dance variations) are usually isolated, defined, and organized so that beginning dancers can learn and use them independently of each ...
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