Dancing Defined.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7932, 22 September 1905, Page 4

Dancing Defined.

With the vears ( sav „ lion Teh-rapl,, have ;lm| further ii-.,:), ,„ lv menlarv ruh-s which govern the art of tlanrini;. ijut n,. ni ~v , .n a lamv <,f u„. j, ra( .,. a ,„| „ o0(I (iis|p which *h.niM diM mem-di i, s practice. Every en..,!, has |„,-u violated. and dancing has denem-rak-d Int., a romp. So at «-e a ,v told. and our roiifeii-nees force us to admit that th-re is until uud<-rlyiivg ibe charge. Hh- i.'e_".-n.Tall■ -n has gradual ; vie are now natinnally cond.-iun.d. |, j s rln, Knglish people who have jrruwn shirk in th,- observance oi the graceful measures our graialm.itli.ts in. Hut the Americans -aiv with us too. They cannot tlmuv. but they hn>il,. tln-oiifrh certain and pretend they can dance whi'n tla-y can only romp. The men. it are rhiVfly to blame, j ears agi, would have refused to dance iviih a man unh-ss he could dance. Nowadays she may consider herself excifilingh fortunate to net a mail inside a ballroom who even pretends to dance. 'Hie majority tan waltz toleralih well, but ihvir diversiiii d st\ [i s T»re harassing to a do gree. Consider, for instance, a girl's experieiH-- at an ordinary navaHull. Uurihy the e', she will liave t«i acc(iantii..lat.' l-.vrs.-lf to ball a dozen variations of the waltz step—i }>,. jumpy h. p of the youthful li.-tit.-u- ---| ant or the (jiiiek slide sideways afiVetiil liv the nav i.u'ai inir man. tinslow and truer waltz of the older man. a, .1. l;.-srd:s. sntrtrat.- inierpie tatir-ns of o.u-h. It is n<- j;i»od com. plainiiiv- : dancinc ineii ar-- much too scarce o> cavil a' -their siv'i.-, an-l. moreover, each is convinc.-i tliat his own is corn-el.