The Texas two-step is the same step known to ballroom dancers as the international fox-trot. Except for the one-step, which is just that, most Texas dances are variations of a two-step, also called a half-step, which is simply a step-close-step. The Texas two-step is generally done with two long steps and a step-close-step to two-four time. Speeded up, it's a shuffle or double shuffle, but it's still a two-step. The ever-popular polka, reportedly invented by a Czechoslovakian peasant in 1830, is a two-step with a hop. The once-scandalous waltz, as it is done in Texas, is a fancy Bohemian two-step called a redowa, a name derived from a Czech word meaning to steer or whirl around. And the jitterbug, or Western swing, is a jazzy descendant of a two-step danced by blacks in the plantation South
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