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Title: Reverse Four Step
Level: Silver (ISTD)(IDTA)
Timing: (QQQQ)
Rotation: Up to ¾ to Left
Click here for the Four Step.

Historical Note
In our 1955 edition of Alex Moore's Revised Technique, there is no mention 
of the Four Step taken as a traveling, reverse turning figure. However, it is 
featured in Popular Variations by the same author (Tango Variation #21) as 
"The Turning Four Step (as a Reverse Turn)." In the 1966 edition of the 
Revised Technique, Moore notes the following:

"A modern way of dancing the Four Step is to commence facing diag. to centre 
and make half a turn on the complete figure to end facing diag. to wall against 
L.O.D. (in PP). [...] Advanced dancers can make up to ¾ turn to the left to take 
the following promenade along L.O.D." 

Note: As with the regular Four Step, both Techniques theoretically allow for 
1-2 Reverse Four Step to be followed by an Outside Swivel. The result of this 
union is covered in the article on the Reverse Outside Swivel.

Video Example 1
Notes
-13C shows the Reverse Four Step (turned 3/4 to Left).


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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