RIVALLING THE TANGO.
After lying dormant for over 4000 years, tho ta-tao, China's nncicnt Sauce., threatens to iuvado British, ballrooms and oust the- Tango! In X'aris the ia-tao (prouoiniced tantah-o) is »l* ready being taught at the Ac-;uiuny of lianchig Masters. An interesting -factabout this aaoiant "official" dance of China—as it is tennnd in books of 10gtveii to fin English [)?per recently by officiate at tho. British Mti-S' on hi whoro it was stated that about tlm year 200 B.C. tho la-tao (not called by 'that name at that time) was danced bv two ;-,e6u!o dressed in loiig,_ toying robes, with gitdleS rouiid their waists, ■ft is'a' slow, giaoeiul inoasure, and Js. • easy tii kaiit- 3VL presideiit 'of ! tlio Society of Dancing ,I'fofessors in i'ni'is, ai:d his wife iniroduced the tata<j'. j.. . . ■ ■
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19140403.2.3.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
132RIVALLING THE TANGO. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in