The Rock Turn While Dancing the Foxtrot

Video Transcript

"i'm Teddy Kern at Dance Manhattan in New York City and this is Heather Gehring and Lou Brock and we've been teaching Foxtrot. As you can tell as you're traveling around the room, you're probably going to bump into people or at least encounter obstacles on the dance floor, that is unless you're dancing at your wedding and everybody's watching you. But when there are other people on the dance floor it's important to be able to avoid a collision and collisions happen because people are having a good time traveling around the room. But in order not to bump into someone or end up in a corner, Lou will lead Heather in what's called the Left Rock Turn, just simply a Rock Turn. Lou would you do that? It's called slow, slow, and stop right there. That's called Rock Turn, he rocks forward, she rocks backward, he's on the left foot, she's on the right foot, they rock forward and backward and change directions, so that they don't bump into people, so that they don't bump into the waiter with the traveling champagne, or into a corner. This is called Rock Turn. So it's called slow, slow, quick, quick. Again. Slow, slow, quick, quick."