Types of Dance ✦ Ballroom & Smooth
Smooth, relaxed and effortlessly classy, the Foxtrot is the dance of Frank Sinatra, big bands and black-tie evenings. It's also one of the most useful dances you can learn, because it fits so much popular music. At VM Ballroom Dance Studios, we'll have you gliding around the floor from your very first lesson.
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The Foxtrot is named after vaudeville performer Harry Fox, whose trotting steps became a dance craze in New York around 1914. It quickly spread to England, where it was refined into the smooth, flowing Slow Foxtrot. Today it's danced socially at weddings and galas and competitively in both American and International style.
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Getting to know it
Foxtrot music is in 4/4 time, typically 112–136 beats per minute: think swing standards, jazz and smooth pop. The basic rhythm combines "slow" steps (two beats) and "quick" steps (one beat), most often slow, slow, quick, quick.
The social Foxtrot is very beginner-friendly: if you can walk to music, you can foxtrot. The competitive Slow Foxtrot is considered one of the more challenging ballroom dances because of its continuous, gliding movement, so it's a dance that grows with you.
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The basic is two slow walking steps followed by two quick side steps, counted slow, slow, quick, quick.
The Waltz is danced to music in 3/4 time with rise and fall on every measure. The Foxtrot is danced to 4/4 music with a smoother, walking feel.
Yes. Many popular love songs, from Sinatra to Bublé to Ed Sheeran, are a perfect foxtrot tempo.
Most beginners dance a basic social Foxtrot within 3–5 lessons. Mastering the smooth, continuous movement of the Slow Foxtrot takes longer.
Absolutely. Many students come alone, and our instructors and group classes provide partners.
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Book a Foxtrot lesson at VM Ballroom Dance Studios in Lake Mary, FL. Call 321-477-9959.
New to the studio? Ask about our introductory offer for new students. And if you enjoy the Foxtrot, you may also like the Waltz and Quickstep.
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