SOME NEW DANCES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3416, 6 January 1912, Page 3

SOME NEW DANCES.

The question of the latest novelties for the ballroom is one of moment to many who recard dancing as the chief pleasure of the winter "months. In early Victorian days “dancing and deportment” were important items in the education of youth, and if the art has lost some of its prestige there are now abundant signs of a steady revival. “On the whole,” said Mr D’Albert, vice-president of the Society of Dancing Masters, to a representative of the “Globe,” “ballroom dances will be this year much the same as last; but among recently introduced dances the Running Boston and the half-time Boston will probably have an equal popularity They are, of course, developments of the waltz, but the tempo is much quicker. ' In fact, tlieir introduction was chiefly owing to the bands playing the usual waltz tunes too quickly to be danced to with the ordinary waltz stop. “The Argentine Tango is a new dance which has become fashionable in Paris, and may become popular in certain circles over here. It is difficult to learn, however, and too much like a stage dance to be performed much in society. It has eight different figures, and there is much swaying of the hips and shoo ders as in the Spanish style. It is supposed to have been invented by the gauchos, or cowboys, of So lth America. ~ , ~ , , “No, I do not think the •iic.-cmsp’ waltz will find a place in the ballroom, ft was introduced in a perfommree at the London Hippodrome, but will never be popular with amateurs because of its difficulty. It is the ordinary waltz step the only difference he mg that the partners do not touch one another at all. This very fact, apart from its difficulty, should prevent it ever ‘catching on.’ , No dance is ever likely to be fasionable in which the partners do not actually dance together. “As for the Lancers, t’ ey are absolutely dead and will not be revived. They became so rough that hostesses abandoned them, and they are never seen now in the ballroom.”