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Show Cubs Entertained By Ballet Group "The History of American Dance" was the name of a program pro-gram of ballet dancing presented to South students last Wednesday by the Strawbridge Ballet Company. Com-pany. In the first scene the cast portrayed por-trayed pilgrims and their type of dance, and th en Indians doing a hoop dance. Commemorating the early days when the West Was being settled, the next scene showed the dancers, danc-ers, dressed in typical costumes of th e Western frontier, dancing "Turkey in the Straw." A Mexican Fiesta scene followed, follow-ed, in which hat dance, and a donkey don-key dance demonstrated Mexican influence. The Vienese influence was shown in the next scene where a Southern couple waltzed to Straus. This was followed by a minstrel min-strel show which brought remem-berences remem-berences of the "Gay Nintees." Layed in th e scene of a modern day canteen, the climax to the drama showed the present day methods of dancing with a typically typi-cally boogie-woogie downbeat. |