Dancing Dying Out.
Ominous rumours have for some time past been floating through the columns of the French press to the effect that dancing is to be done away with as an amusement unfit for this age of intellectual pursuits and pleasures. The Paris 4 Figaro ’of a day or two ago declares that dancing, the 4 dream of young girls,’ is going out of fashion, merely because the lady leaders of Parisian salons no longer encourage this sorb of amusement at their receptions. It is evidently the waltz which is made chiefly responsible for the indifference to dancing. The waltz is boo boisterous, it is said, and too exhausting ; and it is therefore a thing to be thankful for that it has been done away with in all Parisian salens except those slightly attacked by Anglo-mania. Another reason for this unpopularity of the waltz is said to he found in the fact that it is, above all, a German dance. Yet another objection to the waltz is, as the king of waltz composers, Johann Strauss, of Vienna, points out, that it is impossible to talk while waltzing, and that, while the quadrille is the triumph of the flirt, the waltz is his (or her) death.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 466, 26 April 1890, Page 6
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206Dancing Dying Out. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 466, 26 April 1890, Page 6
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