Show ox Trot Has cHas Come to Stay That and end Step One-Step to t Form Basis Bas for All Future Dances J I 4 l BY y j Margaret argaret ill Morris orris Dancer pip ONDON o o- o April JC Will Will t tho UI mo modern mod I ern orn form of or ballroom b. dancing suri sur- sur Ivo ve i tho the t test t of oC time tame 7 1 This question cc l' l ms' ms to have havo occa or ll no little BLUe contro controversy r y but Inna in inno no nl important aspect the argument t Tha rha as ms boon been b cn somewhat misleading Modern adorn st stYlo Jo fO seems ms l In lri Its It description o 0 bo be embraced b by the single h I c e word Jazz jai whereat that wor word tins only a a. simple subsidiary ry o mo ent which v can em bo applied o 0 or omitted r roan the movements m o oi tho fox Ox trot lot x v or tho iho ono one i It is wrong therefore In discussing the ballroom of oc tho the future to to till tali about the possibility po of tho the permanent perma nent triumph of or the jazz over tho the waltz waltz wro wrong both hoth from frem the tho point of oC view clew of the jazz and the waltz w 1 Oblivion fur Jux Ju J ix f In my opinion too tuo Jazz will join the tho waltz in oblivion 1 I differ entirely from the tho contention that the thc waltz waits will over ever return to favor Javor I 1 refrain from ush tho the wor word popularity for the reason that I have never J con i considered Te it a popular form ot of dancing dancIn An And to those rea readers ers who are aro not In agreement with this view j 1 1 would rould simply po-Int po out that when the waltz wall was WiS In vogue the ballroom did not attract men and women of or tho the thoI f I intellectual caliber that aro are to be there to today Tho rho standard dances lance of the future Will be based upon the tho trot fox and the thc cne ene step J t Bo I Tl on t- t tIt It n is Quito quite possible that those dances lose their name but their Identity Iden- Iden l en ity Ih will never entirely vanish be- be uso usa they have havo natural movement as 16 heir very foun foundation Based on tho the walking Idea trey enable people to express press their characters in their per performance so that apart from rom their thell naturalness tur tho they demonstrate personality per pel in a 3 manner in which the old ld meaningless and mo- mo oto waltz was never able to toI I am quito aware that some soma people their interpretation of these movements move move- ments tS is give give- very ugly performances but nt It It Jt Is better to reveal truth In ss than to hypocritically conceal It expressionless gra gyrations If H dancing Is to bo be bo considered an anart anart art rt a 3 creative c art It Il must be he the ex- ex mr n r of life UCe It must be the ex ex- expression of oC the life of the dancer and gl t or insignificant according to tho the dancers dancer's Impressions an and ability No o doubt each doubt each season will sec MCC the tho i introduction tro of oC now new movements mo but the dominating i idea ca of the present style stylo will retain its permanency The simple walking walkin movement mO has I Insured that permanency and shorn of nil all the dips and hops Op which will willdie willdie die a natural death or give place to movements which will perhaps allow less license It will Insure for the ballroom a lasting IUn popularity quito quite equal to the present standard I I D Doesn't nt Kill 1111 Sociability Tho The chief argument of oC critics of the thc present e craze craze rn e. e as they call It it Is that jazz In which th they mistakenly comprehend everything o that is modern modern mod mod- ern is destructive e e of tho the soc sociability of the ballroom There Thera Is no greater fallacy The Thc fox trot fox trot an and tho the step one tep In their view can cnn only be bo danced b by partners who know each others other's steps and so so- the universality ity of ot ballroom partnership has given place to the same sarno couples dancing lo together all tho the c The Thc idea i is Just as two who aro stran strangers to each others other's steps can waltz together so o cart can 11 trotters fox ox and one Not ot line flue to Dance It has I am quito aware become customary for couples to dance more or less together through the evening c but this has nothing whatever to do with the change in the style stylo of or ing It Is due ue entirely to a change Q In ballroom etiquette In tho the old days it was not nol considered good form for to- fora a 1 couple to dance 1 more than two dances together during the evening but bul now now if n. n prefer each ach others other's society they arc are breaking no canon non of etiquette if IC tho they dance ance together the whole evening Whether the revolution In etiquette an and the removal al of restraint int to su such h an Ln extent that gloves aro no longer longcr worn in n ballrooms arc are improvements upon war pre days das T I will not venture an n opinion but tho the fact tact remains r ains that thai these 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