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Dance Steps: Patterns & Rhythm Guide

Dance steps follow rhythmic patterns in music defined by notes with corresponding numerical values like whole, half, quarter and eighth notes. Common dance steps like touch step, brush step, waltz, mazurka and redba each have a rhythmic pattern or counts defined by the time signature of 2/4 or 3/4 time. Proper execution of dance steps relies on understanding the rhythmic patterns in music.

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Dance Steps: Patterns & Rhythm Guide

Dance steps follow rhythmic patterns in music defined by notes with corresponding numerical values like whole, half, quarter and eighth notes. Common dance steps like touch step, brush step, waltz, mazurka and redba each have a rhythmic pattern or counts defined by the time signature of 2/4 or 3/4 time. Proper execution of dance steps relies on understanding the rhythmic patterns in music.

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DANCE STEP

PATTERNS,
COUNTING, &
RHYTHM
Dance Interpretation
Dance steps are executed through rhythmic patterns
and sets of melodies in music. It is important to have
sets of rhythmic and melodic pattern in dancing to
make dancing more graceful and easy to execute.

Music in dancing has its own time signature/s.


These are the following types of notes and their
corresponding values.
NAME Symbol NUMERICAL EQUIVALENT
AND COUNTING

WHOLE NOTE 4 (1,2,3,4,)

HALF NOTE 2 (1,2)

QUARTER NOTE 1 (1)

EIGHT NOTE ½ (1, and, 2)

DOT Half of the note


before it
1 HANDS AND FEET
ST

POSITION
2 ND
HANDS AND FEET POSITION
3 HANDS AND FEET
RD

POSITION
4 HANDS AND FEET
TH

POSITION
5 HANDS AND FEET
TH

POSITION
DANCE STEPS STEP PATTENS / STEP PATTENS /
COUNTS (2/4) COUNTS (3/4)
POINT - CLOSE POINT - CLOSE 1, 2,
TOUCH STEP 1 AND 2 3

BRUSH - CLOSE BRUSH - CLOSE


BRUSH STEP 1 AND 2 1 2, 3

STEP - CLOSE - STEP 1 2


WALTZ 3

SLIDE – CUT - FLIP


MAZURKA 1 2 3

SLIDE – CUT - CUT 1 2


REDOBA 3

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