Summary: Leading a foxtrot dance begins with mastering the slow, slow, quick, quick pace of the duple time dance. Learn to foxtrot and ballroom dance in this free dancing video lesson.
Rosario Nene Ortega is a ballroom dance instructor at The Goddess Store in Hollywood, Florida. She is a professional instructor and performer of Argentine tango, disco, swing, ballroom...read more
"In this clip we're going to talk about the foxtrot. It's the smoothest, the most beautiful and most difficult dances of all the soft international styles. We're going to start showing how the leader moves. This is going to be a slow, slow, quick, quick dance. So the leader starts with the left foot going forward, slow, the right foot forward, slow. Now we're going to move side together, quick, quick. I'm going to go back now; it's going, slow, slow, quick, quick; moving forward, slow, slow, quick, quick; going back, slow, slow, quick, quick. This is going to look like this; slow, slow, quick, quick; and going, back, back, quick, quick. This is the beginners, leaders, foxtrot; quick, quick."