The Foxtrot (also: "Fox
trot", "foxtrot", "fox trot") is a ballroom dance
which takes its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox.
According to legend, Fox was unable to find female dancers capable of
performing the more difficult two-step.
As a result, he added stagger steps
(two trots), creating the basic Foxtrot rhythm of slow-slow-quick-quick. The
dance was premiered in 1914, quickly catching the eye of the talented husband
and wife duo, Vernon and Irene Castle, who lent the dance its signature grace
and style. It was later standardized by Arthur Murray, in whose version it
began to imitate the positions of American Tango.
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