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paso botado
Grupo Sindical de Colonización
Feb 20, 2016 13:29
8 yrs ago
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Spanish term

paso cazado

Spanish to English Art/Literary Music Dance step
Dance step used in a typical Armenian dance to the song Garun (or Garoon).

Resumen coreográfico
La coreografía que vas a aprender se inicia con todos los participantes colocados en posición circular (corro), con las manos cogidas y los brazos dispuestos en W. El movimiento del corro siempre se dirige en sentido con- trario a las agujas del reloj.

En esta danza podemos diferenciar dos partes:
• Parte A, que se ejecuta de cara al centro alternando sucesivamente dos«pasos botados» con vueltas y palmadas.
• Parte B, en la que encontramos «pasos cazados» laterales que se suce- den con pisadas y piernas lanzadas alternadas.
Más tarde, ejecutamos sucesivamente dos palmadas, mientras el corro avanza en círculo y da un salto de cara al interior del corro.

From a music book for secondary school students in Spain. They have to learn various dances from all over the world. I cannot find a description of this dance in English or translations of the steps and am beginning to feel a bit desperate! I think the "paso cazado" is a kind of quaver-quaver-crotchet (left-right-left) type move but I still don't know what it's called and as for the "paso botado", no idea. I'll post a separate question for each term.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Proposed translations (English)
4 Side step ball change
4 chassé
3 crossing step

Discussion

Charles Davis Feb 21, 2016:
By the way, that hop the man on your video does, lifting up the back leg, could be a "paso botado", it seems to me.
Charles Davis Feb 21, 2016:
"Pasos calzados" is strange; I can't find any information on a dance step called that. It does seem quite likely that it should read "pasos cazados", which is not all that common either but is at least well attested.
Helena Chavarria Feb 21, 2016:
Here they mention 'pasos calzados'. If they're the same as 'pasos cazados', then 'two-step' or 'chassé' would be correct.

http://www.dancilla.com/wiki/index.php/Garoon
Helena Chavarria Feb 20, 2016:
As far as I can see, the dance is made up of hops (pasos botados?) turns and low kicks, all linked together by springy steps (the 'pisadas'?). The other main step I can see is when the dancers (I've been looking at the second video I posted) cross their right foot in front of the left and hop backwards, lifting their left foot up at the back. The right foot is trying to 'cazar' the left.
Charles Davis Feb 20, 2016:
@Helena I was very serious about the piano back then and worked very hard at it. Playing for dance classes was a wonderful musical training, for which I've always been grateful. You have to be a good sight-reader and above all you have to get the tempo and the rhythmic impulse just right; with practice you get a feel for what the dancers need. The most demanding part, but also the most stimulating, was the class for three-year-olds, where there was no set music at all and I just had to improvise to fit the kind of thing the teacher wanted them to do. I found that very hard at first but also very liberating.

That shuffle thing he does on the video, right-left-right, left-right-left, is a chassé, I would say. By "kick", do you mean where he lifts first one foot then the other? I don't think that's part of a paso cazado; at least it doesn't come into the descriptions I've found.
Helena Chavarria Feb 20, 2016:
@Charles You must have played the piano well because the pianists who used to play for me said it wasn't easy. Especially when the teacher asks you to stop playing in the middle of an exercise, or you have to repeat the same piece of music over and over again!

I've been looking at the 'paso cazado' (minute 0.57 of the first video I include in my suggestion) and the man seems to do: 'step right kick left, step left kick right, step fwd right, step fwd left, cross right foot over left foot, hop back on right foot'.

Unless I'm looking at the wrong bit (which is quite possible). Isn't it what the man does after he's done 'step, turn, step, heel' twice?
Charles Davis Feb 20, 2016:
@Helena I have never been any good at dancing at all, but for several years as a teenager I earned my pocket money playing the piano both for ballet classes and Scottish country dancing. Both had chassés (they're quite prominent in Scottish dance), but of the course the chassé in ballet is stylised, with a beat of the feet in the air (same in jazz dance, actually), whereas the "step-together-step" type of chassé in country dance, executed on the floor, is simpler.

By the way, the "cha-cha" step in your glossary (eccentric name, I would have thought) is a chassé from the description.

Here's a Scottish chassé, performed by a Russian(!) teacher of Scottish country dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-mq6vEJFZI
Helena Chavarria Feb 20, 2016:
I studied national dancing for six years, though I appreciate I never learnt any dances from Armenia. Most of the dances I was taught were made up of a combination of simple steps, such as hops, skips, turns, steps, claps, etc. Morris dancing and maypole dances in the UK aren't particularly technical.
Helena Chavarria Feb 20, 2016:
Chassé could well be the correct name for this step, though after dancing for 34 years in the UK and other countries I only ever heard a 'chassé' to be used to refer to the step in classical ballet, which is when a dancer slides their whole foot along the floor. It's a single linking movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXjBvyanvG8

Proposed translations

59 mins

Side step ball change

A side step ball change with the right leg then the left
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7 hrs

chassé

I immediately thought of a chassé when I saw this, simply because that's what it literally means, but without discovering what a "paso cazado" actually is you can't be sure. But I think it's the same thing. It's the step-together-step idea.

"Pasos
- Paso cazado lateral.- Se trata de andar de lado. Si fuera para la Iz. sería: el pie Iz. se desplaza hacia la Iz. en un tiempo, luego el D. se desplaza lateralmente para colocarse al lado del Iz. en otro tiempo"
http://www.educacionfisicaescolar.es/wp-content/uploads/2015...

"PASO CAZADO: avanza pie dcho., avanza pie izdo. y empuja al pie dcho. Avanza pie izdo., avanza pie dcho. y empuja al pie izdo."
http://fliphtml5.com/xrxd/pytl/basic/51-100 (p. 94)

"En la parte A, paso cazado (derecho, izquierdo, derecho –o al revés)"
https://pazuela.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/14-danzas-de-gru...

I admit this last one is not very explanatory, but left-right-left or right-left-right is the classic chassé step-together-step pattern.

"Chasse or chassé (French for "to chase") is a dance step used in many dances in many variations. All variations are triple-step patterns of gliding character in a "step-together-step" pattern."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasse

There are many different variants of the chassé in different kinds of dancing. In ballet they're different from country dance (and in Spanish a ballet chassé is called a chassé).

I can't find a video or a "paso cazado", which would be helpful, but here's a chassé:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJZVqBTKMAI

Here, for comparison, is the step ball change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ylI0HC7oQ

There are certainly chassés in many folk dance traditions round the world. They can be lateral, forwards, backwards, diagonal.
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7 hrs

crossing step

According to the notes below it's 'cha-cha' step, although it looks more like a crossing step to me.

http://www.folkdancenotes.com/dancenotes/garoon.htm

http://www.folkdancenotes.com/dancenotes/glossary.htm#chcach...

Minute 0.57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG0gME-pRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qajKwko1HKg

Part 1: Chorus "Garoon Garoon"

Bar 1: Step on R in LOD, arms swing down to V Position (1), hop on R, arms swing back up to V (2)
Bar 2: Step L in LOD (1), close R next to L (&), Step L in LOD (2)
Bars 3-4: repeat bars 1-2
Bars 5-6: Make a 3 step (RLR) CW turn, pulling R shoulder back, but moving in LOD (1,2,1) lean to R and clap (2)
Bars 7-8: Make a 3 step (LRL) CCW turn, pulling L shoulder back, but moving in RLOD (1,2,1) lean to L and clap (2)
Part 2: Verses

Bar 1: Step R in LOD (1), close L next to L (&), Step R in LOD (2); arms windshield wiper to the R
Bar 2: Step L in LOD (1), close R next to L (&), Step L in LOD (2); arms windshield wiper to the L
Bar 3: Turn to face center, step R to R (1), Lift L in front (2)
Bar 4: Step L to L (1), Lift R in front (2)
Bar 5: Step R to R, slightly diagonally forward, clap hands in front of body, with straight arms (1), Cross L over R, Clap hands in front of body again (2)
Bar 6: Cross R over L and rejoin hands (1), chug (hop) back on R (2)
Bar 7: Step back on L, R heel swivels in, arms windshield wiper to L (1), Step on R, L heel swivels in, arms windshield wiper to R (2)
Bar 8: Step back on L, R heel swivels in, arms windshield wiper to L (1), Stamp R next to L (2)

http://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/garoon-armen...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2016-02-20 23:06:39 GMT)
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If 'paso cazado' only refers to the three little steps (step, together, step) then perhaps 'two-step' is the term you need.

The two-step is a step found in various dances, including many folk dances.

A two-step consists of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a closing step with the other foot. For example, a right two-step forward is a forward step onto the right foot, a closing step with the left foot, and a forward step onto the right foot. The closing step may be done directly beside the other foot, or obliquely beside, or even crossed, as long as the closing foot does not go past the other foot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_(dance_move)
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