MOOP!

Yes. There was a lot more similarity between ballet dance and social dance. It's definitely awkward if you have poor turnout like me. I imagine practicing dance and turnout during adolescence would have helped...but there's also discussion of people doing stupid things to improve their turnout (and what a bad idea it is).

I have never had occasion to do a sideways chassé for more than one measure. J. H. Gourdoux-Daux only describes how to do one sequence. I suspect, were it to come up, it would be like the slipping step; however for figures such as Circle Six Hands Quite Round a forward chassé is used, like in strathspey time for SCD.