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Question: DANCE help please I need the descripation of hese words in the dance (What they mean)!?
What is the descripition of the following in dance!?:
CORNER:
SWING:Www@QuestionHome@Com


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These two terms are both used in square dancing!. "Corner" means -- if you are a lady -- the gentleman standing on your right, who is NOT your partner!. If you are a gentleman "corner" means the lady standing on your left!. who is NOT your partner!.

"Swing" means to hold your partner by the waist and hand and whirl once around each other (in some traditions, the partners just link elbows and whirl once around each other)!.

"Corner" can also refer to the eight "corners" of the room which in ballet are numbered starting with corner 1 being directly to the front when you are facing the audience!.

"Swing" can also refer to a social dance style that evolved in the 1920's, combining a lose partnered dance position with the faster syncopated beat of jazz music!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Corner" is usually used not as jargon, but simply as in the corner of the room!.
"Swing" is a little more complicated!. The music was described by one of the old masters as "that feeling you get when you're about to get a feeling," and it's a lot easier to recognize than to describe!.
It's also a genre of dance, with several subtypes!. Lindy hop, jive, ballroom (eastern) swing, western (west coast) swing, C&W swing, balboa, D!.C!. Hand-jive, bop, shag, and others!.
Swing is also used to describe the pendulum action of the legs/body!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Could you be a little more specific!? You may be refering to plainly the corners of the room(all studios ive danced with have corner one, corner2, corner3 and corner 4) And swing, we call it swinging it when like if you're doing a more fast paced dance, like if you have to swing an arobesque, just brushing the floor and getting your leg up quickly!.Www@QuestionHome@Com