On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:23 PM, NANCY <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes. The cruzada is used in Cha cha and also in Viennese Waltz and is
> usually called a lock step. It may be used in others, but it has been a
> while since my conversion by immersion to Argentine Tango.
>
Ballroom quickstep too has those lock steps of which you speak. A
position similar to the cruzada is also passed through during reverse (ie.
left) turns in ballroom samba and Viennese waltz. I can't offhand think of
any situation where you can linger in the cruzada position as you can in
tango, however.
Huck
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