DANCING THE “UKA.”

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1930, Page 1

DANCING THE “UKA.”

The latest ballroom dunce, the "Uka,” has been given a taking name. 'The throb of stringed instruments and quaint measures borrowed from the South Sea Islands are at once suggested, but cold fact does not bear out picturesque assumption. The “Ilka,” Imp nothing do with ukuleles, lbs sponsors are the United Kingdom Amalgamation of Professional Teachers of Dancing, and the name comes from the first three initial letters of this title. The new dance was demonstrated for the first time in England recently, says a correspondent, and what one saw was just the polka. It was not of course, the old polka that disappeared ifrom ;tlie ballroom years ago chiefly because it was rather hard work, but a modernised version, more graceful, with more of a lilt than a romp. The new dance has been introduced by the organised professional teachers to bring back to the ballroom ‘.something of the light-hearted spontaneous style of dancing of the older days.” Something of a rebuke this to the present generation of young people who are assumed to be in revolt against formalities and the restraints of technique.