Foxtrot

The Foxtrot danced to a 4/4 rhythm and 120 beats per minute tempo. 

The name Foxtrot originated from Harry Fox as M. Fox 1914 was doing trotting steps to ragtime music people started to refer to his dance as “ Fox’s trot”, as a result of the popularity of Ballroom Dancing it was necessary to envolve a form of dance that could express the slow syncopated 4/4 rhythm and yet remain “ on the spot”, to compliment the “traveling” fox-trot and easy for large crowds to enjoy.

 As musicians were experimenting with new sounds and beats from america, the “on the spot” dancing was known as crush, the rhythm dancing, now called Social dancing.

 The Foxtrot is the most significant development in Ballroom Dancing, the combination of quick and slow  steps give more flexability to dancers for enjoyment, even more than the one-step and two-step which it replaced and still it is considered on of the hardest to dance and learn.