The mnemonic for the slow three-step dance of social dance is 1,2,3,1,2,3, and the complex mnemonic will have to be added with some half-beat locksteps or paralleling steps.
1, the first step:
It is the boy who comes forward to guide the girl, the left foot advances first, and then the heel of the right foot follows the trend and lifts slightly, and then puts the left hand up. The girl and the boy's movements are corresponding, successively retreating one step from the right foot, leaning forward, raising the right hand to hold the boy's left hand.
2. The second step:
is the boy's left foot on the ground, and then rotate 180 degrees, right foot in front. The girl lands on her right foot, then rotates 180 degrees and takes a step back with her left foot.
3. The third step:
is that the boy turns to the left side of the direction, the left hand always hold the girl's left hand, the right foot does not move and then the left foot is raised. The girl corresponds to the boy to turn to the right side, the left foot does not move, the right foot up.
4, the fourth step:
is the boy's right knee slightly bent, the left leg bends the knee with the waist, and then follow the trend to step down. The girl's left foot knee bent, right leg bent knee and waist level smooth downward step.
5, the fifth step:
is the girl in front of the boys, left foot toes slightly tiptoe, and then raise the right hand, the boys from the back of the right hand to grab the girl, legs open crotch upright ready for the next action.
6, the sixth step:
It is to take the step of boys holding girls, in place to turn 180 degrees to the back side, the right foot crossed behind the left foot. After the girl grabbed the boy turned around in place, left foot back a little step. The seventh step is a push-pull start, then grab each other with both hands, bend your legs at the knee, and lift the boy's left foot upward. The girl lifts her right foot upwards.
The development of social dance
Overseas:
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, these countries in Europe will be some of the folk dances to be refined and standardized, the formation of a popular in the court of the "court dance", elegant and complex, formal and pretentious, losing the folk dance style. Lost the folk dance style, only prevalent in the court, exclusively for the nobility to practice and appreciate, is the privilege of the nobility.
With the dissolution of the court, the "court dance" also entered the civilian society, and became a social dance for everyone in the society. In 1768, the first ballroom appeared in Paris. Since then, ballroom dancing has become popular in European society, and the ballroom dancing of this time has a strong national flavor and is called the American school of social dancing.
Social dance was introduced to several major cities and trading ports in China as early as 1924. By the early liberation period, the fifties and sixties, the social dance was still very popular in China, and in the eighties, the social dance was again accepted by the general public, but there was a big gap with the level of the world's national standard dance.
II. Ancient China:
From the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) to the period of Wei (220 A.D.-265 A.D.) and Jin (265 A.D.-420 A.D.), for the purpose of enlivening the atmosphere, contacting the sentiments and promoting friendship. During the period of Jin (265-420 AD), in order to enliven the atmosphere and promote friendship, Chinese officials and nobles practiced a kind of social and invitational dance called "Dance for each other" at their banquets.
At banquets, the host usually dances first during the banquet, and after the dance, invites another person to continue. After the second person finishes dancing, another person is invited to continue, and so on.
The invited person must dance in return, and if the invited person refuses to dance, it is considered very impolite and disrespectful to the inviter. In the Tang Dynasty (618 AD - 907 AD), there was also a popular social dance called "Ta-Ling", which was a customary dance performed by the nobility during their banquets.