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Cakewalk a Time in Favor.Paris went mad when the cake-walk was introduced. The Nouveau Cirque, ! which was its first home, was crowded eacli evening to see the competitions for the cake, sometimes danced by real negroes. Every one wag trying to lean as far back as possible and to shoot his legs as far forward as possible in emulation of the extraordinary performers. * Then the cake-walk died. Some said it was because it was objected to in drawing rooms by the young American ladies who have always ruled over Paris socie-1 ty, or, at least, have been able to obtain 1 a great deal of social influence. |From the negro dauce fashion went to Spain, whence emerged the matckiche, which was followed by the kraquette and by the liquette. No doubt to-morrow they will invent another edition of ths dayce in “ette.” |Fashions cnang£. The public dauce is dead with its most brilliant exponents.There i» a sort of public dancing to-cay I in Montmartre, at the Hal Taburin, and at some of the night restaurants, but it is no longer of tbs kind that made [ choregraphic greatness in the past. The foot is still lifted above the dancer's head—sometimes a hat goes tumbling off the head of a spectator, surprised by the sudden assault—but there is lessfTce, less art «~ud more vulgarity than n the old time. The sets ol eccentric quadrilles are composed of no illustrious names iu the annals of the dance—rather the hired performer, who takes but scant I interest iu the nicety and poetry of her . movements.
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Durham Review
Durham, Ontario, CA
Thu, Aug 08, 1907
Page 3
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