Learing to Dance by Radio

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 40, 17 April 1931, Page 6

Learing to Dance by Radio

O learn to dance by radio-it sounds difficult, but itis not what it seems if one listens to the splendid series of talks that is being broadeast from 2XYA by Mr. W. E. Priestly, of the Margaret O’Connor School of Dancing, Wellington. Mr. Priestly is recognised as one of the cleverest exponents and teachers of his art in this country and he is passing much of his valuable knowledge on to listeners in an interest-

ing and lucid.fashion. Possessing a good speaking voice, Mr. Priestly’s lectures _ are even to non-dancers quite entertain‘ing. During the course of the series on modern ballroom dancing all the dances at present danced, namely, the quickstep, slow foxtrot, waltz, tango, midway rhythm and the moochi, will be dealt with, each forming a separate talk. Of these, the first three are the recognised standard dances, with the midway rhythm and the moochi as the new dances for 1931. Speaking from 2YA; on Thursday last, Mr. Priestly dealt with the quickstep, describing in detail. the morements of this dance. ‘Listeners wéfe taken from step to step slowly, and no doubt many were enabled to pick up a few valuable hints, Listeners will remember that last year the same lecturer broadcast a somewhat similar series of talks, and as a result had correspondence from not only all over this country but from Australia, from whence listeners ‘wrote asking particulars of the new dance, the quickstep-they, of course, danced it but called it the foxtrot.