[Tango-L] Watch it! [OT]

[Carol Shepherd]

Hi Igor:

The first video clip that you linked is mostly charleston with some 
collegiate shag thrown in.  The couple in the same fur coat are doing 
collegiate shag.  Others remarked that the couple moving around the 
stage are doing Peabody.  That's possible but it seems awfully slow for 
Peabody to me, Peabody is light and bouncy.  It might be a variation of 
the one step or two step foxtrot. Here is a clip of charleston mixed 
with Peabody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOfHtYJX0w

Peabody is very closely related to quickstep, which developed out of it. 
   Quickstep is not so bouncy, it's fast but smooth. Here is a good 
example of modern quickstep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvheTTktx4Q

Both Peabody and quickstep contain the "crossing" that you refer to. 
It's not so much a cross like a tango cross, as it is a way to quickly 
skip through a distance and put the following foot directly below you to 
spring off of.  Both the lead and the follow do the traveling cross, 
usually at different times during the travel, although some figures are 
mirror figures involving lots of crosses.  Depending on the dancers and 
the style, some quickstep and Peabody can remind me of some milonga.  I 
have seen milonga danced with a very bouncy, open style -- I have no 
idea what to call that type (and I'm sure that there will of course a 
contingent of people on this list who will call it "not a form of milonga").

I added "OT" to the subject line because this is dance-related but 
obviously not tango-related.

Igor Polk wrote:
> This is Charleston: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzC1h2XnmwY&NR=1
> In the middle of the dancers, there is a couple dancing something slow. What
> is it they dance?
> That is my main question.
> 
> 
> By the way, here is a funny video I have found browsing. You might find it
> amusing:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA ( This is a "Funny jitterbug
> instructional video" )
> 
> Igor Polk
> PS. Was I able to find and to see it only because someone posted it on
> YouTube? YouTube !
> 
> 
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