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Show 504 THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE. time), that foot which you have raised, while placing the last mentioned, must then be placed before the other in the third position, and outwardly, resuming its ordinary posture, and to perform the third bar. The step being thus executed while turning half round, will bring the face where the back was. In order to execute the second step, and to perform at the same time the other half-turn, demi-tour, which completes the waltz, turn out the side of your left foot, the toe being inward, and moving the body round at the same time, place it in the second position (first beat), put the right foot behind the left, always continuing to turn the body (second beat), then bring the left foot before you, turning the toe inwards, the body turning also, to come half-round, at the moment you are placing the left foot in the second position, to execute the third beat of the second step, and the second half-turn, which completes the waltz. By this example, it may be seen that a waltz is composed of two steps, each of which contains three terns, or beats, making six for both, and for the entire figure of the waltz, which is performed during two bars ; also, that when either of the two persons waltzing advances the right foot to begin the first step described above, the opposite person draws back the left foot at the same time to begin the other step, allowing his partner an opportunity of advancing her foot, both performing then the demi-tour; when one repeats the step the other has just executed in the second demi-tour, to complete the waltz. W h e n the position for waltzing is taken, in order that the step may be properly commenced, and that both persons may be in unison, the lady being on the right of the gentleman, he must go off on the left foot, turning himself before his partner, as if that had been his first position |