Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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DISCIPLES OF TERPSICHORE 1899 What the Big and Little People Are Doing in New York . CHANGE IN STYLE OF DANCING . Oct 24 1844 More Repose of Manner and Stateliness to be Seen - New Yorkers Dance - Well - Rich Children Dress Simply . 22 23 : 1 reorie are going to see , or they are sce Ing . A change in the style of daneing . " says M. S. Frothingham , who is an authority on the subject . " Everything now points to a more stately method than we have been having , less rompias , and more graceful dancing . The dancing teachers have been working for this for sone time , but it is not altogether owing to their work that the change has come . They are teaching more repose of manner in the young ladies ' schools , and that shows in the dancing . The lancere ' is being danced now much more than heretofore , ie acquiring quite a sur prising degree of popularity , and is danced with more stateliness , There is no reason for roinping through a dance . No one can hide bad dancing by rompirg . " I noticed one evening a set of upper class New Yorkers . The young people , whose family names are familiar to every one in the diy , were going through the dan . cere in a very jolly way . They were all goal dancers , every movement was grace . ful , and it was very attractive . Near that set was another , which was evidently trying to the memnts the first , but with the greatest difference . They did not dance lighuls ' gracefully . or easily ; they didn't know how to dance Hell , and they coulir : hiie it . Vi bine ! aneing un't be concelerom ; ins . Thou . tha : 114 be veri joll occasionally . and very pretty When the abers ku how to dane . As to the position in dancing , the fads totodu by college boy's are not corrit't : though her agairt a degree of popularity . 1 : : fm the college boys that the full of his 1. tu !!! jump - handle fashion came , and the one that we have seen laily 0 : the lays and under the chin , the man sometimes restins bis face zaisti 112 ! :) object ) that The viris adopt these its vir all then haupted usu : 11 : His brix them hom .. and they think th : s are rather jolly . " There on urteetsition for da ! 13:11 ihat monitori ! ... Pard n . ! . 1031 tk . th . Sission to tight in should go around that his wrist comes in the as he raises it vaporis , her firmly and yet without the slighest motion of drawing her toward nim ' or appearance of pressure : His hand rasts lightly ujinn her back the palm of the hand not touching it , but su ' placed that he could grasp her shoulder easily if she should slip and were in danker of falling . Her arm Is bent and rests lightly upon his , the hand falling over it while he holds her right hand with his left * With a dancing skirt that is a pleasant and comfortable position , tht if the lady is wearing a train , instead of resting her left arm on her partner's he ens it over and picks up her train without dirtieulty , and in fact more easily than she could in any other way , because her arm is supported , and she is helped to carry the heavy weight of the skirt . " A man should never hold a handkerchier In his hand in dancing . In the correct posi ton his hand rests so lightly upon the back of ' sbe Jady's dress that she is not conscious of It , and there is no danger of soiling the gown . * Young women frequently loll upon the whoulders of their partners quite Innocently , unconscious of the unpleasant Impression It creates among observers . Sometines this may be because the man does not take the correct position , the lady feels insecure , It is ** difficult to dance , and she tries to get a bet ter position . If a man holds a woman too closely it is her fault , because if she speaks about it the first time he will not do it again . " With tha ndden stateliness of the lanc ers , the waltz is danced more quietly . and the glide waltz is almost imiversal . There are only four dances practically that are canced in good society . Thi e are the waltz . polka , two - step , and lancers . Really , if a dancer is familiar with the waltz and polka , that is all that is necessary . It is pleasant In a small company in a private parlor for the ladies to show the gentlemen the mill tary schottische or ‘ Dancing in the Barn . ' that was so popular at one time , but you will not find those in a large gathering . Then children have learned to lance well they can be taught ' various styles of the two - step . caprice , and the ininuet , but that 1s for their own amusement , not for gen eral use . Would any one at an assembly in New York dance the ripple galop . the three - slide rocket , la Busse , the Kentucky Jubilee . the Trilhy tristet ) , or the Tele . vraph Ny Baby schottische ? The fancy dances are merely given as a fin ! sh and pol . ish to the children's terpsichorean educa tion . As to learning to lance in three or four lessons , that lean Impossibility . I think during the Winter people come to me on an average every day to ask if I can tesch them to dance in so mady lessons . You can't tell , for one thing . how soon any one can learn for it depends a great deal upon the Individuals and how they feel at the time they are tryir to learn : Thor try two or three times and pick up the ideas wonder fully , and then for two or three lessons more they will not do anything , and I feel discouraged and that I am taking their money for nothing . Some of them are hon est enough to say it in their own fault , and that they are not fueling well . A bricht pu Dil may learn a ste :. In one lesson , but then there is knowledge of reversine , and where some one who 18 elever . may pick up hall a znancy tips in a lesson . thev don't know how to put them together . You can't learn how to dance in three or four lessons any more than you can learn Latin or ( rook . You may in told how to study . but he has the work to be done , " Vw Yok perple dance very well , much better than 1. - t of the releners who come hate ile Englishman and Crmans , As a kral rule , do not fill out their time , but some to a stop broadly on their wolene and heels helore the insur - finis They all pent ** 51. ! thei Sre Am - rican Verse 1 : 1 dancing and one Wealthy Foung Vw York Woman o me that at one of the German bath which she visited the young American spent their time in termine the b ! Germans to re Veree . In New York mans of t . mi to rit ru 46 wh .. me tus prn lait Hn T !! ... ii . itti . ult.Tyt . The po ar : artu ! ! ! .. -... will.ali , ir 14 liitrit : n ! . : 1 . 1.unili 11 . This ti : isti il 1 41 ... 11. Tip IS in unison and this Pihle 41:11 : * the man hulls : Mairius to de ; am in a way to which one ( uud object 1 1 : is n torrtly . * The mans OVER + In