MODERN DANCING

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13934, 12 July 1919, Page 4

MODERN DANCING

A TITLED ADVOCATE. ; Following numerous protests a« to the character of modem dancing it is iutereeitdmg to hear tfe views of Lady Muiir Uack&wie, wh,oi is not' only herself a, gaiaceiful dancer, but a 1 hostess who lias given several eirijcyaibla 'dainoea .where the miuch discussed .one stepsi were performed (says a. London.. paper). Why do I lika the present, dances.? I could giro ./mainy reasons- ■ Onie ■'great reason as' thia.tttihey are i** tiring, *> itiharfi.it is' possible to enjoy am evening's dano- j flngi even, after the long day's work which/so many of us no<w have. There t may be a.hiealltihy physdeiail.faitigue, as tihett-e would be afbar walking] or tennis, but there "as ' never tihe jaded ■ waaintosa which, followed the mcia/n-i ing'letsisi' gyi»ila-oinß . of % c feesomely. Mfpotrted 1 Tmlitzeß. Then th© mcv-ei-, naenitis were iuJl of verilty. . A n fa-' ■fmii.tgr of sitie|ps is .possible tc a dancer ■of iniatgdniaitlipin. and iniveitiLvtivenieiss. And tbfe 'miusilo & Lively, dbsphiitng 1, deimaindiinig' mioivement, goi esacitfy fiftitted .to -tihei sltletpisi used!. As these steipsi ai-e based on: natural walking 1, they ar"e easily acquitted ' in tlhear enxaipleßt farm, thing making daubing: now possible both to. the yonitih and the imiddfe-ageid. .There may be oibjewbiomaible damciinigi, tihoiugh.' I have seem nione; bu/fc im good 1 cdrclesi to-day-.the foK-tfot amid -onie-stapig parhaike nmfe of the nialfcurei of a'.minuet'■than a. -romip, the effect, being 4 one' of easy and graceful rnicwemienlt!. Surely a,t a» (tiiirie likd tihiis, whenV life is "full"of amsierfies!, £t is weill to dlanioe am,d: so gain itihe hiealth ,anidl spirit needed if we are to face . 'bravely whajtever tirwi'bl'es may canfrjom't us." '