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ABOUT NEW DANCES.Society Is Always Anxious to Pick up a New Step.What a Ato Bn;DANCING MASTERS’ CONVENTION.Try the Steps Suggested and Agree to Put Them Into use. Tho Manner In Which Some olt; the Newer Dances Were Introduced to the Public.Correspond*Awful,starving h children I; I have 1 and I can at leant* Itaclne an the city o some Ideitlmt4,Ai Hkoa gnisay for tllie faiththe prewi them tho Irish fur ten a it Im?1 wild, ' drink?1* that not yonr lion hunt np help dec nil Iititp. (4i knult; encourni mined h; tlmiw i Welt Mthing sodciuocn t linen 1 front ca h rolling laying « galur oluuuth on thethOUKltthat tin money needy* Chicbut wr diuit l» No muI HU Wsell a tHlie sii limy you ki liuinevice ItrtClaimThe question of new dunce* is agitating the iuIdiIh of the young people at present.It I* nlwnys the enao nluug the middle ol Keptemlicr, just liefore tho gay «a*oii com-mencm l'iof«*or Bevenuice, the veteran dancing master, who hits como to Ilacluo for llw iMt thltty yean, b ou hand again, tie hn« taught mure people lo ilnuoo iu thh city imd stale than any other six professors ami although ft mail over sixty years of ace ho is ft great deni more spry on Ids feet than hall the gentlemen of thirty, J**t Saturday night lie opened his annual school.It Is the season Hint professors meet mid tliftciiHA the fcmbillty of new dances, and the art thev leach.A professor a new step, or ho thinks It out alter much calculation, ami ho submits his idea to the assembled comiHUioii.The now Men'is ttled. The dlgnilled pro-fuMois uf dancing, elo*u tho convention doors nhd try it themselves, If, alter lh«severest tests, it I* approved by a majority of tho professors, they all ngreo to touch it to their pupils and do their le*t to inako It popular.Tile convention this year Is to be held illChicago: Not because Chicago pcopb have Hu) Inmi feet for dancing, hut merely «» a mutter of convenience. Tho World’s fair oilers Imutidlesft opportunities to th« dancing profcsmir, and llmro is Httls dnuiit that IhishiMly ol men will go to Midway rial-Hineo nnd there watch with tho eye of pro-lesKioiml jeuhmsy tlm gyrations nml twist-big* of the dancers thvie. The American Society of Piufcssnis of Ihmeing will meet in Chicago, and not until utter this Impor-taut mm vent hm has lueii held will tho new dunce* lor the coming season ho known loIho general public.Lust year the two step, danced lo the time of a polka or a march, was the novelty which was danced almost entirely to the exclusion itf llw ohMmdiluned polka. The #iTwiHdi'pM came from the east. New York’s Four llumlrtMl ham power to mnko or mar a new dance, and Ward McAllister and his satelllt** arc watched closely by llw douclng probNsim, who try to Introduce a dunce In meet tbo tastes uf these people. Fur llvw long yearn New York would not take up a now dance. The professors weio In despair.Then r.uuo the Two step, New \ork looked at it askance. Thru at a hail ghen by thu Umdlcy-Murtin* tlmTwo step” wasdanced, and hum lh.it lime nil it grew ill favor nutII it Wcimie the rage ami Ihn most popular whirl nl' the season, !t is not danced out yel. t'ntlke the wings “Arterthe Hall and Ta-rft-ra-booni-de-fty,’* it could not continue all summer and make the general public utleily sick of il. It had u ic*t and will ho sure to revive when tho dancing season begins.Another dance that was revived to some extent hist winter was the old fashioned Hclioillshe, II owe* its removed popularity to the creation of that ubiquitous wing with the catching air, I’m Iho Man Who Wmtu Ta«ia-m-lMKMult;de-ay.M This song wasset to damn time, ami during tlm whole ot hint sciisoti no evening scvincd complete wlthuiit it. t'ulike tho *‘Two-Step,11 It wasdoiiu to death; the people mo heartily tired of it, and il In nut likely to ho hauled Irotn the grave of oblivion, into which It 1ms dcseivcdly lalletu t n»of tho most popular dances that was ever revived was the Oxford, a modi tied fotiu of lliu inUmet.It lived two nr ibrco seasons, and there is huiiio chance of a revival tbUycar, It is a stately measure, ami may hu termed one of of th« dancing classics.There I* ono new dnmo that is coming I his winter nnd will piohaldy meet with mra?*. It is culled tlm MKolm»llal,* and Is iliuiccd to whotthcho lime, it is designed to take tlm place of tho old Millltary sehot tin'll, as tho two-step tiMik thu pluce of tho old-liishiotied and Jerky polka. Them Is not ns much music waltz In the ,,lhmiona*‘ as them is In tho old scboltlschc, but It is mure grnrelul, nnd relies fur Itssiichom upon a peculiar gliding movement, which looks very pretty nnd is easy to accomplish,There is wnno talk among Iho professors of reviving the old Virginia reel under Its more euphonious title, Hir linger do Cov cily/’ to BAtlfy tho cravings of tho general public lor old fashioned things, Sir Koger is nti nnthpic, nnd If It should revive, tho Uh old folks can look on and remember tho n times when Ibey tripped to lls measures cothemselves.(lunerally speaking, tlm tendency in I illa*toit.mlt.lb!a«N.a.Vhyre-vcHoatofloIt.I*icani*uL'UTin boltev the l tnemlH|K'llk1mlt; MiAnIbis ii remo udsti of allll|NHlthen comi rial ( of Hi:Ithe hbeartho i men won uttn I lint i:folic Mnj Trein inti l*dl rollto oflh and in el coll i4'tlmofNonotmetheWtin:dillmuU.iputoArle^AhtoIPtci1111of►nwIU\vIIIIIINsiinInufdancing i* toward quicker slops nnd liveliermusic. Tlm young pcoplo do tnt now, as they did in tho old lliuo*, dance Mr tlm Miko of courting, limy itam « lor the pleasure of dancing, tho Intoxication, tho exhiiara* tluii and tho exercise. They no not want to feet serious, but Jolly, and Uttio Collltwin ,*Ta-ra-rft-lHxm*de*ayM plea«es themletter than would the Hlut1icst*iulmiet over I tt irisi by tlm haughtiest grantlamo that ever 11 veil.Tho waltz will contlpuo to hold its own thin year, ah it has iu the past. Indeed, tho prolbasom of daiueiH «ay that tlmy am only sure uf two dances, tho waltf mid the Y«fk«» The most jiopntar Yofko that was over danced was tho Wentwortli, and II nmlliium a great favorito. tbio dance that Inis gmiu out of fashion in tho east is thoquadrille. It him been voted too slow, nnd Its many vorsiuiis lo intricate to remember.It is still danced in tho west, and willprobably continue to he. It is Iho mostsocial ot all dances, nnd tho most likely to promote good feeling and fellowship.oUVgnbvaTT InDthnfid And Hcartfit Fover.
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Racine Daily Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Sep 20, 1893
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