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Title: Five Step
Level: Gold (ISTD), (IDTA)
Timing: (QQQQS) or (QQS&S)
Rotation: Up to ¼ Left.
Click here for the Reverse Five Step.

Notes
The Five Step is not listed in our 1955 or 1966 editions of The Revised Technique by 
Alex Moore. However, it earned high praise in Popular Variations by the same author: 
"This is one of the best ideas for years.[...] Has excellent character, and is easy to teach." 
It is outlined in Tango Variation #41, and is also featured in amalgamation #43. 

Interestingly, its first description in Popular Variations features an alignment that 
we today would call a Reverse Five Step. We surmise that the similarities to the 
Four Step were soon discovered, and it was thus codified in its current alignment.




Video Example 1
Notes
-24B shows the Five Step turned ¼ to Left, at a Corner.
-24C shows the Five Step with no turn.

Video Example 2
See the annotated amalgamation here.
Notes
There is one Five Step (QQS&S) in this video:
1. Occurs at 0:06
Entry Figure: Back Corté (Open Finish)
Exit Figure: Closed Promenade with extra (S)

Video Example 3
See the annotated amalgamation here.
Notes
There are two Five Steps in this video:
1. The first Five Step (QQS&S) occurs at 0:48 
Entry Figure: Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
Exit Figure: Closed Promenade

2. The second Five Step (QQQQS) occurs at 1:03
Entry Figure: Promenade Link
Exit Figure: Closed Promenade


Pre-Bronze
1. Walk
2. Open Finish
3. Progressive Side Step
4. Progressive Link
5. Closed Promenade
6. Rock Turn
7. Open Reverse Turn, 
    Lady Outside
8. Back Corté
Bronze
9. Open Reverse Turn, 

    Lady in Line
10. Progressive Side Step 

       Reverse Turn
11. Open Promenade
12. L.F. and R.F. Rocks
13. Natural Twist Turn
14. Natural Promenade Turn
Silver
15. Promenade Link
16. Four Step

17. Reverse Four Step
18. Back Open Promenade
19. Outside Swivel (Methods 1-2)

20. Reverse Outside Swivel   
      (Methods 3-4)
21. Fallaway Promenade
22. Four Step Change
23. Brush Tap
Gold
24. Fallaway Four Step
25. Oversway
26. Basic Reverse Turn
27. The Chase
28. Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
29. Five Step

30. Reverse Five Step
31. Contra Check
Additional Figures
32. Reverse Pivot
33. Alternative entries to PP

Former Syllabus Figures
-Open Promenade In-line

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