The four-step dance is what we often call the blues. This kind of dance is a leisurely dance, originally an ancient social dance in Britain, and now it is very popular in many places in China, especially in Taiwan Province Province.

The music of this dance is 4/4 beats and the speed is 26 bars per minute. Steps are mainly composed of two basic movements: regular steps and parallel steps. Slow and smooth, as easy as walking. Now it's called "four steps slow" in ballroom dancing. Beginners in blues dancing are the smartest choice.

Nowadays, many professional modern dance teachers often practice basic skills with blues dance, such as the five skills of modern dance (except tango), such as shifting the center of gravity, lifting and swinging, which can be quickly mastered in leisurely dance steps. Therefore, almost all teachers with high level use this dance step to practice dancing with their students, and the effect is quite good.

There are two basic jumping methods for slow four: one is the equal interval jumping method, with one step per beat; Left and right, similar to walking with people;

The other is two slow and two fast, with slow rhythm accounting for two beats and fast rhythm accounting for one beat. The first beat is stress, the third beat is sub-stress, and the second and fourth beats are light tones. At the beginning of the dance steps, you must follow the stress of the first and third beats. The basic step is a "sliding" dance step composed of constant step, horizontal step and parallel step.

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The music of the blues dance is 4/4 beats and the speed is 30 bars per minute. The rhythm of slow four beats is a bar. There are two forms of slow fourth rhythm. The form of blues music is "dong, da, da, da", and the common 4/4 rhythm is "dong, dong, dong, dong, dong".

Blues dance is a slow four-step dance, and its dance music comes from blues, a sad music of black people in the American jungle. Blues is a transliteration of English blues, which was popular in Europe in the early 20th century. After it was introduced to England, it was changed into a slow and steady ballroom dance. Bruce's dance steps are simple, but solemn, retaining the court color and classical charm.

Its rhythm and movements don't change much, it moves forward and backward smoothly, and it jumps leisurely, giving people a feeling of comfort, leisure, peace and freedom. Its dance steps are easy to master, bearing Wen Ya, so it has the nickname of "standard bridge" and is called enlightenment dance.

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Baidu encyclopedia-blues dance