THE DREAM WALTZ.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 203, 21 May 1908, Page 5

THE DREAM WALTZ.

■ /s£'?" % f trarigo thiiigV that;"(saj's a writer in, # the. Argus ), -although *W ofteV hear grumbling at; the .-monotony ,of the ordinary ■round'of--.ballroom dances, npw'rdanccarrifres .it/only ilasts for a season' or .so,' while tht-'i familiar waltzes/ polkas,/ lancers; '. andquadrilles, with occasional' schbt'tisches, re- ■ main .'with' us ; year in .arid 'year' out/ when new measures are introduced they are usually' seized upon'- with greaifc enthusiasm at first,, but, it':gradually ;dies'- out, '■ and then wo -are supplied with;a new! set bfi'steps, 1 which, in'their turn; become/the rage of the' passing hour, and are rarely lieard of afteri Most of the-latter ;sort/t)'f dances comb, to us-from. America, and the barn dance and "Washington Post are examnles- of nast'Tavonritcs..-. At tho;present moment the. "twostep" is having a*, vogue. But.iii America," for itself, everything, has yWded to the •"dream waltz," which is quitenew, and owes its .origin to *the v waitzjtpenq in "Tho Merry Widow." It. seems that-;a Now York.-society.lady admired the stage so much that she begged a well-known • .dancing, master! to . form a "dream' waltz'-'-, class.- • .He spent some days' in suitably ; ar~ 'tanging,'tho new movement,, and now "his classes, are crowded, for the danco caught on at oiice, 1 r_lt is; describnd as an-elixir-'of you thj.Jor- it ■ com bines rhythm, : swing,. .dash f and. "dreaminess;" Tho following may give some- idea of tho performance"ln the, old-, fashionod waltz a. different-position is takoii : ou -each of the, three - counts. In the - new. waltz three is counted to ..each step, the first movement being, one of walking sido by side.In. the Aid waltz the,same .position is maintained .throughout .the dance,, . while in': the ho'w. : one there are' three. distinct positions,all .'of ..'which involve-grace, poetry of motion; and abandon."