HINTS FOR DANCERS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 183, 5 May 1925, Page 2

HINTS FOR DANCERS

Don’t try to out-walk vour partner. Merely backing her around the room is not dancing. Some people don’t dance; they just fight it out. Swaying the shoulders may be good exercise, but it is bad form. You can’t keep your knees from going to war if they are bent. Tlie extended arms and hands are for use and not for ornamentation. Freak positions should be avoided. The most uncomfortable of these is that in which the hands are held above the head. If von are just learning to dance, don’t’ advertise it by blaming your partner for a mis-step. To find fault with your partner’s dancing is neither gentlemanly nor ladylike. Don’t count aloud. Short steps are not only ungraceful, but betray a lack of confidence. Smile! Don’t look so helpless; it could be worse. The poorest dancer is the man who, for lack of variations, walks backwards. He makes dancing uncomfortable for his partner and for other people as well.

Unless you are being paid for it, don’t show off. Don’t hop. A frog has to do it, but there is no excuse for you. Besides, it is apt to make your partner nervous. If vou can’t dance and talk at the same time, don’t talk.—" Home Chat.”