NOVELTIES IN DANCING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 287, 7 July 1875, Page 2

NOVELTIES IN DANCING.

In alluding to this subject, the Pall Mall Oazette ' observes :—The following advertisement has recently appeared iu the Times :— “ Mr Espinosa, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the Imperial Opera-houses of St. Petersburg and Moscow, to which he was attached for five vears, is now in town, and prepared to give private lessons in all the fashionable dances; and also to introduce in England the Russian national dances, as follows: —The real Mazurka, as danced at thelmperial Courts of St. Petersburg and Moficow ; also the Malaroccia, Little Russia, Karmilitsza, Wet Nurse, Moujiski, and Little Peasant, being the original and symbolic dances of the Russian Empire. Mr Espinosa will also arrange the production of fancy?quadrilles for private soirees, and gives lessons to ladies and gentlemen specially for d*. portmen t. For terms, &c., addx*g>> Ac., &c.” ■■r '■ The “ Moujiski ’’ and “ sant” would, no doubt, soon be popular as Christmas novelties in dancing. But how about that “ original and symbolic dance” called “ The Wet Nurse?” Of course? “The Wet Nurse” is a poetic subject for symbolical action, and Mr Espinosa's talent may render it charming, graceful, and idyllic. The form of asking would, we suppose, be for the gentleman to advanep politely to the lady and say, “ Mayl nave the pleasure of the next Wet Nurse with you ?” And the answer might be, '* I’m very sorry, but I’m engaged for the Wet Nurse.” “ Oh, then—ahem—can you put me down for a Little Peasant?’’ “ Ob, yes,, bertainly, and the lart-Moujiski, if you like.” ?Oh, thank you so much. Then I’ve a Moujiski and a Little Peasant with you ; and now (going) I must get somebody for just one Wet Nurse." The new ball-room phraseology would be charming.