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fox trot

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fox trot
n.
1.
a. A ballroom dance in 4/4 time, encompassing a variety of slow and fast steps.
b. The music for this dance.
2. A slow broken gait of a horse, between a trot and a walk.


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Waltz, Fox Trot, Tango), in which the partners are free to release each other from the closed embrace and dance without any physical contact, thus permitting improvisation and individual expression.
The simple fox trot won the Grammy for best rock and roll record of 1962, beating Sam Cooke, the Drifters and Mary Wells, and even inspired a dance craze (Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser did the Alley Cat on an episode of ``Mad About You'').
These days I dance a graceful waltz and a jazzy fox trot, and my teacher and I are choreographing a Fosse-like routine.
 
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