Welcome to Learn Social Foxtrot (Fox)
– one of Sweden’s most beloved social dances!
Foxtrot can be danced to almost any style of music – from jazz and blues to schlager and dance band music. In Sweden, fox is often danced side by side with bugg at dance band nights.
What Do We Learn in the Course?
Learning to dance is a lot like learning to play a musical instrument. It takes years to truly master – but most people feel the joy of dancing already in the very first lesson. After one term, most participants feel confident enough to go out dancing for real – something we celebrate together with a group outing. Some stop there, but many choose to continue developing their skills.
Even though “anything goes in fox,” the dance can feel very different depending on our choices of technique, moves, and musical interpretation. In the course, we focus on the principles and techniques that make dancing more comfortable, musical, exciting, and enjoyable. In addition to the most common fox steps, we also draw inspiration from other partner dances such as blues, tango, and – of course – the classic foxtrot.
The course is suitable both for beginners and for those who are self-taught but want to build a solid foundation to grow from.
The History of Foxtrot
All living dances evolve over time and tend to become more varied, more beautiful to watch, and more enjoyable to dance – and foxtrot is no exception.
Foxtrot has its roots in African American nightclubs in the United States in the early 1900s. In the 1910s, the dance became popular with a wider audience through theater stages and silent films featuring stars such as Harry Fox and Vernon & Irene Castle.
At first, foxtrot was fast and a bit “bouncy”, danced to ragtime music. Over the years, it has evolved and been danced to charleston, blues, swing, rock’n’roll, schlager, dance band music, and today also other forms of popular music.
Already in the 1920s, foxtrot split into the faster quickstep and the slower slowfox. These developed into advanced competition dances – but the more relaxed and accessible social foxtrot has always been there as the dance of the common people.
It’s hard to say what the “correct way” to dance social foxtrot is – teachers have always taught their own variations. In Sweden, social foxtrot has traditionally been danced in a less formal and more intimate style than in many other countries. Today, foxtrot can be danced either in a classic way – with elegant posture, smooth and precise movements, and polished figures – or as a more intimate social dance with improvised steps and a personal style. The latter is also called “Swedish Foxtrot”, “Cozy Fox", “Dirty Fox”, “Fox Fusion,” “Dynamic Fox”, “Modern Fox” or simply “Fox". A favorite has many names!
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Prerequisits
Everybody is welcome.
Class description
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Age limits
From 14 years.
Instructors
Hours
Between 19:30 and 21:00 5 Mondays in total 7.5 hours
The course starts: 2/2 Finishes: 9/3
Breaks: Sports vacationen February 16th - 20th
Location
Sal 1 på Drabanten Dansens Hus. Please see the map.
Participation fee
- Children: 0 kr - Full time students or youth up to 18 years old: 895 kr - Others: 995 kr
A membership fee of 100kr is added. This fee is payed only once per year.
Offers & Discounts
If there are places left you can repeat this course for free!
Many courses? Get our economic Gold card and go to as many courses that you want for free this semester!
Our ambition is to have the same number of men and women in the courses. Therefore we will give priority to those who sign up in couples (This does not apply to solo dances like Street, Flamenco or Jazz).
But it is also alright to sign up alone. During the classes we will change dance partners all the time.
Please fill in all the fields in the form below. Please send a separate form for your partner.
