SLOW FOXTROT | Finals couples presentation | Kazan Kremlin Cup 2020

Now this was a real SLOW foxtrot at 28 BPM, all the couples showed elegant, long steps, soft rise and fall while rotating in the third dimension. Really sporty, elegant, powerful but soft in touch. Great performance. 😃😄😉😎

His feet !! Evgeny Nikitin !! Dancing with Anastasia. So soft, so excellent. The musicality is superb. Gives the hidden feeling of the slow fox trot. This couple, Evgeny and Anastasia, in all dances, definitely is ready to carry the world, also in Blackpool and WDC events. Much like Bill and Bobbie Irvine.

Kremlin Cup 2020 was held in Kazan...and they are dancing the elegant Slow Foxtrot...!

Stylish, compact and gorgeous movements inspire , touching the mind and soul..

Wonderful and inspiring music and dance

They are interpreting the music not just doing steps mechanically.

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Inspiring g music...is it played live?

슬로우 폭스 매우 아름다워요 최고입니다

Caralho, muito foda

И кого выбрали? они все прекрасны

Is this fox trot? It's form seem to be the polar opposite of tango. The songs seem very soft and sometimes romantic even, but the heads of the dancers seemed to suggest they had great cerymony into touching each other. I couldn't feel how the hug is like for the ladies specially, I can't imagine preciselly how this form originated from fox trot. The impression I had with this video, which is the only fox trot dancing video I've found on youtube so far, and maybe for no coincidence, anyways the impression I had is that the guy was forcing the girl to hug him and she didn't feel like it, but was being polite into not dropping him in the middle of the dance floor and making him look like a fool. The expressions on some ladies faces seemed to suggest they were minimally enjoying the songs, so that is probably related to how this form originated. Russian dance events I've seem are of really high level ones, so I might be repeating unecessary information talking about tango, but I can never know who will read me or possibly answer my comment, so I'll give the benefit of the doubt to whoever reads this and decides to answer it and help me write further. I heard tango started at whorehouses, and danced between men, as some kind of fight in argentina and as a way of waiting for the few ladies that were there to dance with them or do whatever people do to each other at whorehouses. Anyways their hips were originally separated because of them not feeling very atracted to each other and the songs were kinda dramatic and combative because of that too. This form continued afterwards because of the great focus in tango of leg movements, and this form allows for those movements to happen without having to hug the other person too distantly and mantaining another point of contact with the partner's body. Advanced samba de gafieira dancers use that too, even though at samba de gafieira the form is not as solidly stablished and the neck of the lady and the gentleman can be more relaxed at times, according to the songs and the interpretation dancers want to give it. Samba de gafieira had a less explicit influence of european erudite music, don't know the exact general term for that in english, and that is probably why its songs at least received less finacial incentive from the state or private companies or wealthy people. Samba de gafieira survived and grew as a bastard son of tango. Tango's dacer's clothes are practically copied from european traditional formal clothes. It is not that unfitting because Argentina's wheater is colder than Brasil's. Brasilian male gafieira dancers deived their traditional clothes from that. It probably started with a white smoking, or whatever it is called the full or semi full set of european traditional formal clothes. After that white pants remained because of the weather and other shirts were introduced, probaly cotton ones with a striped pattern and a white hat. a pattern of blue stripes alternating with white ones really impressed me in one of the paintings or performances that reached me through youtube. First 3 pages of google search had no match for an article dedicated to traditional samba de gafieira clothes, which only comes to confirm the bastar nature of this dance stile and songs, but I did find some pictures that helped me a little though.Female samba dancers' traditional clothes have probably always been more compatible with brasilian wheather. Sambas danced alone already involved skirts probably, longer ones for the modalities danced alone and moveable ones that made an effect when the dancer danced. The influence of those skirts probably came partly from gypsies. In carnaval not everyone wears a lot of clothing, specially women, and the influence of the indians is stronger into painting the body and the modern popular variation of it that is to use glitter. Peolpe are rumored to become more lgbt frinedly in carnival too, but my experience with samba was always much more guided by learning evironments and classrooms, partly because of my nature, so I say that not based on experimental verifications. Anyways in samba de gafieira, which is danced in couples the ladies normally use shorter skirts, sometimes they are less tight and sometimes they are more tight, when they are tighter they have details that move according to the ladies hip movements while dancing. That was probably influenced by blacks too, because many of the female dancers of samba de gafieira were blacks and some of them somewhat proudly value the genetic inheritance from the bundos, which a teacher of mine at high school said were an african etnic group linked to big asses. the word for ass in portuguese is bunda, as a reference to them, my teacher at high school said. Could find no matches for that in brasilian or english wikipedia. Guys from hip hop talk a lot about asses too and they are predominatly an culture heavily influenced by blacks. there are some very traumatic stories involving racims and an or some african woman in particular and european experimental investigations. that is probably the reason for the absence of easily reacheble information on that. Well that is not the main topic regarding dancing and garments and stuff, so I'll rely on whoever is reading this to provide more accurate information on that and just say that samba de gafiera and samba in general is strongly connected to racism against blacks in Brasil. Anyways sometimes women traditionally used a tank top or whatever it is called as a complement for the skirt. Sometimes them both would be a dress. Often the kinder ladies would wear dresses or clothing with a clevage? in the back? No fabric covering the part where the gentleman's hand would be in order to make them able to dance better. I don't know where this started and which other styles of dancing traditionally used that, but I would be interested to know. Some of the ladies in this video performance wore clothes minimally like that, but I don't know if this is traditionally related to fox trot. It would be surprising if it were. in fox trot the gentleman's hand seemed to be fixed at a lower place comparing to the lady's exposed back. A dancer of zouk once wore a dress that practically left her whole back exposed to be touched while dancing. I was greatly impressed by that, but few times was I lucky enough to be able to dance with a lady like that in a ball or in a dance class. I guess that is a more contemporary phenomenon. at zouk, samba de gafieira, bolero and probably many other dance styles there are 3 mais ponts of reference for the gentleman to position his hand and structure his hug. The closer shoulder bade, the one that is farther and the end of the ribs of the lady. To be far it was much more reflected and worked pedagogically by my teacher of bolero and zouk mainly. It aplies to samba de gafieira, but there are political divisions in samba de gafieira. The samba de gafieira of Rio de Janeiro is much less focused on the ideal of providing a pleasurable experience to the lady and is more focused on the performative aspect of dancing for an audience. I'm from São Paulo so put what I said into perspective. The Rio de Janeiro samba de gafieira teachers I had contact with were not nearly as great as the ones of São Paulo's samba de gafieira. That seems to be enough for an atempt to star a conversation, sources on samba and dancing are relativelly rare for me to continue writing or for me to make a stronger effort to start a conversation.

What a dead atmosphere. It's so dead, that even Nikitin, i'd guess he win, had an a bit uninspiring performance. Look at his face when he turns Ana and thank the public. To be fair, this atmosphere even let the sparks vanish of of every couple. How come? Where is the public????