"Right foot forward in CBMP". What is CBMP?

Most folks would say "Counter Body Movement Position," but "Contra" and "Contrary" are also used instead of "Counter."

It is a dance position (not a movement; that's CBM) in which one foot is placed - either forward or back - on or across the line of the other foot. You must use CBM to effect CBMP.

In the action described in your quote, you would place your right foot forward and either on or across the line of the left foot.

Although CBMP is employed to some extent in all Standard dances, it is most important in Tango.

Some other folks are likely to chime in on this thread, trying to complicate this subject more than it needs to be. They'll claim that "at the highest levels" of dancing, CBMP is more complicated - and it is. However, if you were dancing at the "highest levels" (whatever that means), you wouldn't be asking your question.

For your immediate purposes, what I've told you is sufficient. As you grow and develop as a dancer, you'll come to understand the finer points of the concept and the nuances of its use in each dance.

jj

CBMP is a foot position. Howard: "The placing of the stepping foot, forward or back, onto or across the line of the other foot, giving the appearance of CBM having been used, but without turning the body".

The last bit is quite important, but it is not uncommon to find steps where CBM & CBMP are actually used together, but that is the exception, and not the rule. CBM (Contrary Body Movement) is a body action (not a foot position) "used to initiate turn. It is the moving of the opposite side of the body towards the stepping foot, either forward or backward" (Howard).

Beware of anyone who tells you that their answer is all you need to know. That's not for them to say, and it is counter to the spirit of a discussion forum; where a range of opinions is to be expected, but where factually correct answers to a direct question are always welcome.

No one in this thread has, as yet, made such a claim.

Also, the definitions for CBM and CBMP are not opinions.

jj