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

  • Brockbank Lane Script Servicce, PO Box 2341, Weymouth, Dorset DT49YZ, UK., Tel: UK 01305 770157
  • Christchurch Dancing Club Script Library,
  • Northern Dance Services, 18-20 Commercial St, Shipley, West Yorks., BD183SP, UK.
  • 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.