Silver Samba

Silver Samba

Music – Samba 2/4 Tempo – 54 measures of 2 beats per minute Pattern – optional Duration – the time required to skate 2 sequences is 59 sec. Inventors – Courtney J. L. Jones and Peri V. Horne First Performance – Queen’s Ice Rink, London, England, 1963 Patterns, Step Charts & Additional Information The dance begins with the partners in Kilian position as they skate two run sequences.     Steps 4 and 8, after each sequence are a “quick cross-over slip RFI.” This is a movement in which the right free foot during the third step (LFO) of the run is held at full extension, and as it takes the ice for Steps 4 and 8 (RF1 cross), the left foot on becoming the free foot is quick-ly slipped behind and sideways across the tracing just clear of the ice, becoming fully extend- ed and pointing downward. Inventors – Courtney J. L. Jones and Peri V. Horne First Performance – Queen’s Ice Rink, London, England, 1963