LEARNING TO DANCE BY RADIO

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 15, 28 October 1927, Page 13

LEARNING TO DANCE BY RADIO

-eeeEeEEyEEeEeeeeee DANCE FEATURE FROM 3YA Much interest and anticipation has been aroused by the announcement that BYA has engaged Mr. Cyril Poulton, the well-known and successful Christchurch teacher and exhibition dancer, to broadcast lessons in modern ballroom dancing. Mr, Pounlton’s method of broadcasting lessons, as explained to us, is simple, yet surprisingly effective, It entails a considerable amount of preliminary work, but the result as heard ‘fon the air’? is, from the listeners’ point of view, remarkable for its clarity | and completeness,

Mr. Poulton will not only earn, the } thanks of those listeners desiring to learn to dance correctly, but also the thanks and confidence of parents, whose idea of what constitutes good dancing has, until now, been somewhat hazy, in consequence of which they have been rather disinclined to allow their children to learn the so-called jazz. Mr. Poulton’s first lecturette on the evening of Thursday, October 27, will trace briefly the trend of modern dancing from its commencement until the present day. He will also deal very fully with the most common faults to be found in our present-day ballrooms, explaining how these faults tend to, and do, make for poor dancers, and consequently poor dancing. ° In an interview Mr. Poulton was most emphatic as to the essential points which must be observed and practised by whose wishing to be called good dancers that is judging by the English standard of what is considered good ballroom dancing, and the English dancers are recognised the world over as suprenie. "IT shall, during my broadcasting, have occasion to refer to these essentials frequently," said Mr. Poulton, "as they are of paramount importance and cannot be given too much time and practice. It is only by the English ballroom dancers’ strict ohservance of them that they have attained their high degree of proficiency. "In brief,’? continued Mr, Poulton, "mv first lecturette will embrace the correct placing of the feet in the slow foxtrot, quick-time foxtrot, and blues, and the correct way of holding a partner, balance, and deportment in those dances," "‘Tjisteners should follow the complete series of @ight lessons as each suc ceeding lesson will be controlled from the previous one, as this is the only method by which a complete knowledge can be obtained of all the dances in their eutirety,’’ concluded Mr. Poulon. A summary of each lesson will first be published in the "Radio Record." Mr. Poulton will only be too pleased to answer any questions which listeners may | desire to ask, such letters to be ad. dressed either to station 3YA, Christchurch, or to the Cyril Poulton Studios. of Stage and Ballroom Dancing, 411 Wilson’s Road, Linwood, Christchurch. The envelopes of these letters must be marked ‘"‘Questions on Dancing." : {