THE CATSTEP.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The days of the Shimmy Slfiver and Jazz are numbered in the opinion of the Dancing Masters of America Association, gathered in conference in New York, after seeing the dancing of the “Catstep.” This is enthusiastically to me by an expert as a moral and artistic substitute for “Wiggly” dances, regarded with so much disfavour by tlie churches. The catstep is weird enough. It is danced to vigorous Polonaise music, and is thus put into language by a dancing master: “Dip, rush, run, run, stop, right, left, click, click, stop, turn, One, two, then short one.” Mrs John F., Yawger, a prominent women’s club worker, told the masters to-day that music needed as much reform as the dance. “Take the wiggle out of the music, and you take the wiggle out of the dance.” She said that many masters believe that the oldfashioned waits will be soon restored to popularity here.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1920, Page 4
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157THE CATSTEP. Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1920, Page 4
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