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Title: Hover Corté
Level: Gold (ISTD); (-) (IDTA)
Timing: (123) or (123456) 
Rotation: ⅜ to Left

Notes
Timing: The Hover Corté can be held for three counts (123) or six counts (123456). Entry, Exit and Rotation remain the same in both.

IDTA Syllabus: The Hover Corté is not listed in the IDTA Waltz syllabus, nor is it charted in Guy Howard's The Waltz and Basic Principles. However, the book does list it under 'Figures Common to more than one Dance.' It is unclear whether this makes it a legal figure to compete in IDTA syllabus Waltz, and if so, at what level it is to be taught.

Video Example 1
Notes
-32A highlights the Hover Corté using 1 bar of music (123). 
-32B shows the Hover Corté using 2 bars of music (123456). 

Video Example 2
Notes
There is one Hover Corté (123456) in this video:
1. Occurs at 0:21
Entry Figure: Quick Open Reverse (Not Syllabus)
Exit Figure: Back Whisk

Video Example 3
Notes
There is one Hover Corté in this video which occurs at 0:43 and shows the following amalgamation:

1-5 Hover Corté
3&1 Outside Spin
2-3 Back Whisk
As discussed in the Waltz Video Analysis, this sequence is not permitted in syllabus Waltz. Had the amalgamation looked like this, it would be legal:

1-6 Hover Corté
1-3 Outside Spin
Follow with any figure beginning with Man's RF Forward (Lady's LF Back) taken towards Diagonal Wall. 





Pre-Bronze
1. Closed Changes
2. Natural Turn
3. Reverse Turn
4. Natural Spin Turn
5. Whisk
6. Chassé from PP
Bronze
7. Closed Impetus
8. Hesitation Change
9. Outside Change
10. Reverse Corté
11. Back Whisk
12. Basic Weave
13. Double Reverse Spin
14. Reverse Pivot
15. Back Lock
16. Progressive Chassé to Right
Silver
17. Weave from PP
18. Closed Telemark
19. Open Telemark
20. Open Impetus
21. Cross Hesitation
22. Wing
23. Outside Spin
24. Turning Lock to Left
25. Drag Hesitation
Gold
26. Left Whisk
27. Contra Check
28. Closed Wing
29. Turning Lock to Right
30. Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
31. Hover Corté
32. Fallaway Whisk
Additional Figures
33. Forward Lock Step
34. Fallaway Natural Turn
35. Running Spin Turn
36. Quick Natural Spin Turn
37. Open Natural Turn from PP


Former Syllabus Figures
-Backward Passing Changes
-Double Natural Turn

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