{"id":42754,"date":"2026-03-10T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/?page_id=42754"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:49:25","slug":"tea-time-foxtrot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/reference\/pattern-dance-charts-descriptions\/tea-time-foxtrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Time Foxtrot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"entry-content is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wprt-container\">\n<p>Original music\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 \u201cTea for Two\u201d by Prandi Sound<br \/>Rhythm \u2013\u00a0 Slow-Fox<br \/>Timing \u2013\u00a0 4\/4<br \/>Tempo \u2013\u00a0 27 measures of 4 beats per minute; 108 beats per minute<br \/>Pattern \u2013\u00a0 optional<br \/>Duration \u2013 The time required to skate 1 sequence is 0:58 min.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2241-Tea-Time-Foxtrot.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patterns, Step Charts &amp; Additional Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tea-Time Foxtrot is an extremely smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the ice. The rise and fall action should be present in up and<br \/>down knee actions, as well as continuity of the steps, so that if there is a full cup of tea on the head of a dancing lady, no drop would be spilled.<\/p>\n<p>Essential to a comfortable and effective TEA-TIME FOXTROT is a dance frame, correct posture, connection, and foxtrot timing. The body should be held erect without either partner leaning towards<br \/>the other. While in closed hold, partners should maintain light contact in the diaphragm area. But posture is not just how you hold your own body, but also how you connect with your partner. The man should present the Lady, and the dance holds should be very elegant throughout the whole dance.<\/p>\n<p>Steps are mostly choreographed in the typical Foxtrot timing of \u201cslow-quick-quick, slow- quick-quick\u201d, using all dance holds, without any break of hold, even during the Twizzles. This dance should be performed easily, smoothly and effortlessly, as if the dancers were having a relaxing tea-time break during a long day of work.<\/p>\n<p>Inventors \u2013\u00a0 Sylwia Nowak-Tr\u0119backa, Natalia Kaliszek and Maksym Spodyriev<br \/>First performance \u2013 Nebelhorn Trophy, Oberstdorf, Germany, September 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original music\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 \u201cTea for Two\u201d by Prandi SoundRhythm \u2013\u00a0 Slow-FoxTiming \u2013\u00a0 4\/4Tempo \u2013\u00a0 27 measures of 4 beats per minute; 108 beats per minutePattern \u2013\u00a0 optionalDuration \u2013 The time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_gspb_post_css":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-42754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"et-pb-post-main-image":false,"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":false,"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Team IDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/author\/idcadmin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Original music\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 \u201cTea for Two\u201d by Prandi SoundRhythm \u2013\u00a0 Slow-FoxTiming \u2013\u00a0 4\/4Tempo \u2013\u00a0 27 measures of 4 beats per minute; 108 beats per minutePattern \u2013\u00a0 optionalDuration \u2013 The time [&hellip;]","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7GOSM-b7A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42755,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42754\/revisions\/42755"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}