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A ballroom dance so fast and fizzy it looks like joy outrunning gravity.
means A fast, light ballroom dance in 4/4 time built from quick walking steps, hops, and runs — or, more broadly, any brisk marching pace.
from A plain English compound of 'quick' and 'step,' both old Germanic words — 'quick' originally meaning 'alive' (as in 'the quick and the dead'), so a 'quickstep' is almost a step that's lively, full of breath. It began as a military term for a brisk marching cadence before the 19th-century ballroom borrowed the name for the dance that does the same thing with far more sparkle.
- foxtrot origin
- Born when dancers sped up the foxtrot in the 1920s
- speed
- Roughly 50 bars per minute, breathlessly brisk
- jazz roots
- Shaped by Charleston, ragtime, and quick American swing
- the look
- Hops, skips, and runs across the entire floor
strictly come dancing — british tv show where quickstep is one of the 10 standard ballroom dances performed weekly
dancing with the stars — american tv franchise where quickstep appears regularly in ballroom dance routines since 2005