Re: FT's true timing - Q-S-Q

Michael Champion posts, in part:

  It is not the Sinkinson early rise that it is question, 
  it is "does he reach a plateau?' from step two to step 
  three or is there "additional rise?",

There is no additional rise after step two - the rise is entirely completed by
the time the body weight is centered over the left foot in the feather.  At
speed, there appears to be a plateau at the top of the rise.  A frame by frame
analysis shows that there's actually some lowering between step 2 and step 3,
and the final lowering is completed by the time the body weight is again
centered over the right foot on the second quick.

  and also the timing and execution of the CBMP step in 
  the Feather actions. The old style was very "foot to foot" 
  rather than exaggerated extension of the ankle and split 
  weight.

In this video, there is no split weight and the extension of the ankles seems
moderate to minimal in the outside partner step.

The style is nearly opposite to what John and Anne Wood - I believe Gleave's
top proteges at the time - danced, and nearly as different from what Sinkinson
himself danced with his later partners, notably Adele Preston and Charlotte
Jorgensen.

I guess it's hard to discuss the tape without both of us looking at the same
one.  For all I know, they danced differently for that show than they did
normally - it was an illustration of "the era of the classical slow foxtrot",
after all.


Warren J. Dew
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