I know that Foxtrot has two basic rhythms: slow-slow-quick-quick, or slow-quick-quick (though, in fact, any combination of slows and quicks is, mostly, allowed) -- and if one is phrased with the music, the other can't be. Some others (Waltz, Rhumba) have essentially no rhythm changes, and can stay locked to the phrasing of the music.
For Swing, a basic east-coast triple-swing (triple, triple, rock-step) is a 6-beat rhythm, repeated twice, this then synchronises to 3 bars of a 4/4 timed song. (east-cost single swing would be slow, slow, quick, quick, still 6-beat.)
Where I've seen more of an issue for violation is the question of how you move -- hips, shoulders, torso, etc -- what parts move together, what parts move seperately, how things isolate/don't. That is what I expect would be the big "difference" for middle-eastern.
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I know that Foxtrot has two basic rhythms: slow-slow-quick-quick, or slow-quick-quick (though, in fact, any combination of slows and quicks is, mostly, allowed) -- and if one is phrased with the music, the other can't be. Some others (Waltz, Rhumba) have essentially no rhythm changes, and can stay locked to the phrasing of the music.
For Swing, a basic east-coast triple-swing (triple, triple, rock-step) is a 6-beat rhythm, repeated twice, this then synchronises to 3 bars of a 4/4 timed song. (east-cost single swing would be slow, slow, quick, quick, still 6-beat.)
Where I've seen more of an issue for violation is the question of how you move -- hips, shoulders, torso, etc -- what parts move together, what parts move seperately, how things isolate/don't. That is what I expect would be the big "difference" for middle-eastern.