A NEW DANCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 907, 8 January 1881, Page 2

A NEW DANCE.

Ouu American friends are given to extremes in the pursuance of their dancing (says the Evening Standard). A short time since a fashion of waltzing called “ The Boston ” was all the fashion. It was easy, and the reverse of fatiguing. It was not lively to the spectator, for it required close observation to see that the performers were dancing at all. Any one could do it. You simply stood up and put your arm round your partner’s waist, swayed your body in the slightest degree' in

accordance with the tune, and very occasionally moved your feet. It was calculated that in half an hour you would make a tour of the room. A new dance of an entirely different character has taken the place of “ The Boston.” This dance can be described briefly. The dancers slide three times one way as fast and as far as ever their legs will let them, and then three times in the opposite direction. It is absolutely necessary for the enjoyment of this waltz that both parties shall move simultaneously, A New York paper gives an instance as an illustration. “ The young gentleman was brawny and demonstrative. He was up in the new waltz, and eager for it. The young lady was tall, stately and sedate. There was no understanding between the two when they stood up together to dance. The new waltz begins without premonition, scooting off suddenly sideways, like a tremendous accelerated crab. Such was the initial movement of this young gentleman. Encircling the young lady firmly with his muscular right arm, and gripping her right hand with his left, he measured off about half the width of the parlour with three vigorous flings of his long stalwart legs. It was a complete surprise to his partner. She was carried off her feet at first. Then her slippers beat a quick tatto on the floor in her struggle to gain equilibrium, and she hugged her partner desperately. The sweet smile on her face gave place to an expression of annoyance, and that to terror. As to the young gentleman, he thought it was thus far all right. Away he went three jumps in the contrary direction. She accompanied him, and in a dreadful manner. Her nose bored itself into his shoulder; her hair caught in a butof his coat, and was torn from its fastenings ; a boquet at her waist flew into many more pieces than it had flowers, and her Louis Quinze slippers scraped violently along the floor. She frantically clasped her hands at the back of theyoung gentleman’s neck, and sank into his arms an utter wreck.”