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Waltz Chairby Harold & Meredith Sears We dance this figure in semi-closed
position, maybe facing line of dance with our trail feet free. We
simply step thru with a slight lunging action and soft knees. The
curve of that trail leg should suggest the leg of a Queen Anne chair. A little more simply, we
might imagine our thighs to be the seat and our torsos to be the back
of any ordinary chair. Sometimes, choreographers want to
specify the poise of the upper body during a Chair. The usual or
default Chair is a Forward Poise Chair, looking forward and with the
torso inclined a bit forward. In a Back Poise Chair, you step thru
with the trail foot and at the same time look back, over your right
(lady's left) shoulder, with a little sway to reverse. For example,
in the Shibatas' Edelweiss, there is an impetus to semi; back
poise chair recover point to reverse; forward poise chair recover
slip; double reverse spin;
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