A Foxy Start in California - Foxtrot 101

As an entertainer, I often feel like a one-woman show.   Continually venturing and expanding my knowledge of dance and the performance arts has shaped my life.  It’s fascinating to take a moment to look at the lives of the artists who played foundational roles in what we understand as dance today.  Surprisingly one of the dances currently embraced by the world started with a man whose beginnings were rooted very close to home.  From Southern California to San Francisco, vaudeville actor Henry Fox got his start before heading to New York to influence what would become embraced as Foxtrot.  Read on…

Fox's Start in Southern California

     While social dance is very popular in Southern California, most may not know that Foxtrot beginning’s stemmed out of Pomona, California.  Wait, what?  The Foxtrot is from Los Angeles?!  Well, not quite; but the dance’s... READ MORE.
 

Harry Fox

Vernon & Irene Castle - Influential Foxtrot dancers.