DANCING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 13

DANCING NEWS.

:■■ iMthletes:",(says.]" a.:..leading , lielbourne 1 teaoher '.-.■. of '."make '■;■ the'.vbest :-daMers.'.7;PqUtiQißns,;..'asva-'.diass,-.'.iisual!y : 'inako; the ;worst.);; This is'; because ..maiiy politicians •do: l nbt lbarri' till '.late ■in life.;it;,was 'saidjiof'Vlhe 'Duke ..of .AVellingtori 1 jthat :hb'dancedl at; Court as;.if-'he wore'paid';fbr..':it,-v and': were; jiiot'-. l '. sure, that,'he:.would;get;the'money..;. I)ancing jisiaii v art; tq;whioh;;onb;caiuiot .apply, the ;add(J'e,-;.'--^t'.'-'ia J ''iiev<ir".tbo[; , lato';to--'learn.". Octogenarians/usually'recognise this.; The !high r water;'-mavlj,/otrthis;::teacher;s : '/ex-: I'periencb^runs'/only. to: a - little;:over, 50 /years. These'--elderly;souls ■;cdme.' , t6: be I .taught ;:beoause, ifprsooth.'-they 'have; been' : invited' to. -.Borne , . State;' ball, or ■'■'function' ,that cqnnot : be'.avoided..;A. man: of, couri ago,..ot';course; can avoid anything," but. i many,politicians'; resources; are; not-:eqtial, ■ tp/tSeaxcossof .mendacity contained in';a. !;' note; "regretting : that en ■ .account of, ill:ness,;'—x".'* ;:>''.?■■;, ■'■/■ ]'■ '■'.■-['-i/}\. k';,■ '5-,-:' :r v': ; '.■■Athle'tes'.dance'well. /They, are graceful.. tbd;pbise;.bf body is ; always ithero. , i One: sees Uhat: ;wheri "Tommy'.' /Burns' pujichesthd'.baU.vAVe are'informed, that; lie i ."danced,"/up;t6 : "Jack , ' Johnson. yJt'he /dabbing'. mbyements of i modern /boxers ! diiter very little from, the dance as: practised,: in thq , ' ball-room;. True. it o does not ...relj'; ,upbn;;;;'"deportiuent" ; as-;a.;' ,"Tpmniy'.f;?BuruS'.;is;:-probably:,-..unaware like:hundreds' of:the rest of us,.that there /are .'threo.'bows -in the /lancers, one to /partners,' oho tp xcorhers; ;and. one to; the vis-a-vis. :. ."How.; -many./ dancers?": ;ini'quires qur .authority, -"know; that, there \is.:a;bpWfto,'tho;'vis-a-yis?" ;,. ■.;',;- , '■'",; .■■;' Fat ■• popple"'are . : nbt'v/excluded from grace. '.Some :f of • them ■ are lighter. on i;their feet: than-.'-Ph'aroah's. lean kino. '.';lt certainly seems:cruei; to make themdahcb ;in c .inidsummer,7'but.teacliiii{,' goes on. all thq,year,';and perhaps -it;is good.:as a weight-reduceK /Doctors,': , says - the ■ lady,-can-always bo-detected; by an-astute ;teacheri.. They/looi at .''her: face: instead. 'of her'' •■ feet.;-): The,'. supposition, was':' that doctors diagnose disease 'rather 'by ..facial than.:pedal -.signs, but:,thero.'is ..a ; nioro courteous 'audi-gallant . explanation .'/than that—when the; teacher, is a;)ady./ ~ I /There is, it would appear, dancing.and "dhrncing." ;4Tho /only 'difference to aj supertioial.obser.ver seems to.be that the devotees./of "darncing".; enjoy, jt more than 'those who dance.',-But able , teacher .will; inform "you. that dancing; is based upon ."deportment,"- while "darncing , '; is based upon ;three lessons , in- a : littlo ibaok. street, in Footsorap or■Abbotsfordor South Melbourne. "As if," • pays, tliß fashionable, lady: professor '.)<■,■■ dignnntly—"Any art/could;be learned'in .three/lessons." :.-'■.-",-::-' 1, - -, ';;//,:/ ,\ ,' /./-■;' '.Nationality 'counts j :for; : li.ttle in'-'danc-ing'.,. But of. all races it is pleasing—of I otherwise (depending upon': one 'u view, of dancing); to learn : that our Australian' .boys/ and girls 'are the brightest;.- nnd tiptest: pupils.: Good (dancers aro born— but..one can, make .excellent limitation's, Provided; that one', dances »ith Straight kiieos (to; a teacher , tho , ': bent ..knee, is : anathema) there; is .h'opcf-;'; ■/ : '■;':■;: Vy.'--■'■ /Military training is not good for dnncing. There :aro, 'of , :course, excellent dancers :ambngst the military; forens,: but the-result, of-military.trnining is to stif- , fen tho figure rather /than: to .make, it supple. ..;; Nevertheless;.few:'teachers 'of dancing .would make military" training punal on that account, mostly: recognising that, it is cvon ■ more important, for a man to be able to defend his wife, sistor, and daughters, all of : whom dance, than to be .able. to dance himself, •"-.!-.■■-.