TRUE DANCING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 11

TRUE DANCING.

The ons exercise in which women aresupreme and the one which interests them more than any other is (lancing. Whether it js social dancing, aesthetic dancing, or folk dancing, it is engaged in with'genuine pleasure, for dancing with music furnishes a'-motor outlet for feelings and emotions which no other exercise affords. The so-called classic or aesthetic dancing as developed within the past ten or twenty years has been reduced to a fine art. Unlike the old-fashioned bnllet dancing, which confined nil movements largely to the feot and legs and principally to the toos, the modern style of aesthetic dancing embraces every variety of trunk, leg and arm movements, and scarcely leaves a muscle of the body unaffected. Ballet dancing requires such strenuous efforts on the part of the devotees that it takes a lifetime to prepare for it, and if. gives littlo pleasure cither to the participant or spectator, while the aesthetic dancing mny be easily acquired, ami is a, source of never-ending delight to all who engage in it or look at it. Whon this stylo of (lancing hns been preceded by a, course o! preliminary gymnastic exercises, to give suppleness to the joints and strength and firmness to the muscles, no form of physical training gives better results in ease and grace of movement, symmetry of form and beauty nnd power of expression.