The feather or feather step is a dance figure in the International Style foxtrot.
[1] Depending on a syllabus, it consists of three or four steps (man stepping basically forward), with the third step (right foot) done outside the lady (lady on the right side) with a slight turn in the body position to the right.
The step was first introduced in 1920 by G. K.
[citation needed] The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) syllabus considers the fourth step that aligns the man with the lady into a normal dance position to be part of the feather step variation,[1] while the International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA) syllabus does not.
The pattern and especially its distinctive part (steps 2 and 3) gave rise to several variations: [1]