GRACEFUL DANCES AGAIN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 19 July 1920, Page 6

GRACEFUL DANCES AGAIN.

GIRLS WHO WERE SPOILT BY THE ONE-STEP. Jazz dancing is on its last legs. The "tickle toe" ceases from troubling, and the ''shimmy shake" is at rest. Like all crazes, the jazz dance has &een killed by excess. A year ago every dancing hall in London was crowded with jazz dancers; to-day the game halls are practically deserted, and nigger bandsmen are seeking passages to the United States. " T ' Dancing masters who*~were in London in May for their annual welcome the "slump" in jazz dancing." Already thf/y say there is a r&&i,im i in favour of the waltz, which at present is the most popular cm'ti'c'eMtfiMe square dances a'i'e bring revived. ' "The modern girl cannot* danc'cp" said one expert. "She has beeri'spoiled by the one-step craze, and now that an effort is being made to compromise between the set dances of the Victorian period and the ugly shufflings that pass for, dancing to-day, young people will have to take lessons from their parents. "We shall never return to the serious and sedate dancing of twenty years ago, but Fhe new steps will make for grace and deportment, with nothing of the stiffness and formality of the old-time dances and nothing of the ugliness of the jazz craze."