SLOW FOXTROT
SEQUENCE DANCES
music: 4/4, 120 beats/minute, 16 bar choruses,
scripted by
Don Herbison-Evans
don@it.uts.edu.au
(updated 15 January 2008)
using various abbreviations for holds and directions.
More detailed scripts are available from
ABBEYDALE
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, open telemark, chair, hover,
curved feather, open impetus, weave, whisk,
feather, open telemark, fallaway, check,
outside swivel, outside change, natural turn.
APRIL (Choreography by Graham & Avril Watkins)
start: CH, man facing DW.
hover (end PP), feather finish, telemark, feather,
back feather, feather finish, drag hesitation,
3-6 weave, whisk, man's zigzag, wing, open telemark,
fallaway, chasse, same foot lunge,
1-2 turning fourstep, side close.
CARNABY
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, open telemark, wing, outside check,
outside check on L, 456 weave, 4-8 reverse wave,
impetus, fallaway whisk, outside swivel, 456 reverse turn,
outside swivel, chair, 3 rocks, slip pivot,
walk, feather, reverse turn.
CHESLYN
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, telemark, 123 weave, check, outside swivel,
feather finish, fallaway, slip pivot, feather finish,
three step, open impetus, feather, half telemark,
x-line, hover (to PP, ALOD), feather finish,
change of direction.
EMERALD
start: CH, man facing DC.
1-6 reverse wave, impetus,
feather finish, chasse in fallaway, outside swivel,
open impetus, curving three, open impetus,
weave, three step, syncopated hover cross (to PP),
feather finish.
FEATHER
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, open telemark, natural weave,
outside swivel, weave, whisk, grapevine,
feather finish, three step, hover cross,
telemark, outside check, heel pull.
FOUR WINDS (Choreography by Arthur & Jean Parr, 1995)
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, open telemark, natural weave, zigzag,
2 outside swivels, natural hesitation, 2 locks, wave,
open impetus, promenade lock, chair, slip pivot,
curving three, feather finish, change of direction.
GLENROY
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, telemark, curved feather, impetus,
open telemark, natural weave, outside swivel,
lunge, contracheck, open hover, feather, 234 reverse wave,
open hover, chair, slip pivot.
HERITAGE
start: CH, man facing DC.
hover, wing, open telemark, feather, curving 3, contracheck,
natural slip pivot, natural telemark, grapevine, 4 step,
contra-feather, chasse to R, fallaway, slip pivot,
curving 3, back curving 3, open telemark, back whisk,
point R, sway R, natural pivot, lady's Rudolf,
back twinkle, twinkle.
KAREN
start: CH, man facing DW.
whisk, feather, 1-6 reverse wave, open impetus, chair,
rock, same foot lunge, impetus, forward lock, feather,
1-4 reverse wave, grapevine, curved feather, slip pivot,
hover, reverse turn.
MAYBELENE
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, open telemark, 1-4 weave,
hover, double lock, feather, checked reverse,
outside check, feather finish, whisk,
same foot lunge, outside spin, curved feather,
change of direction.
OCEANIA
start: CH, man faing DC.
walk, feather, open telemark, natural weave,
whisk, feather finish, wave, open impetus,
back whisk, twist turn, whisk,
weave, change of direction.
SPARKLE
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, 2 fallaways, feather finish,
three step, curving three, closed impetus,
tipple R, double weave, back whisk,
untwist, tipple R, 4-6 weave, turning tipple L (rocket),
4-6 wave, tipple L, 4-6 weave, rocket,
outside check R, heel pull.
STARDUST
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, fallaway reverse, turning hover,
curved feather, open impetus, weave,
change of direction, contracheck, roll,
weave, change of direction, 1-5 reverse wave,
heel pull.
U.K.
start: CH, man facing DC.
walk, feather, 1-4 reverse, outside check,
back feather, feather finish, whisk, grapevine,
open telemark, feather finish, weave, three step,
natural.