Dancing; A Complete Guide to All Dances, with a Full List of Calls, the Music for Each Figure, Etiquette of the Dances, and One Hundred Figures for the German (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... making another quarter turn while executing the third movement with the right foot (3). Step backward on the left foot (4), and make another quarter turn while bringing the right foot to the second position (5), and pivot on the right foot, making a quarter turn while executing the sixth movement with the left foot (6). These movements must be perfectly smooth and continuous. Many superior dancers make no distinction between the Leap arid the Slide in the waltz, but glide throughout the dance as smoothly as possible. The Leap, if used, should be so modified as simply to impart a little additional elasticity to the first and fourth steps. If given with the least jerkiness the rhythm of the dance is destroyed. The steps as described are exactly the same for both ladies and gentlemen, but when the lady steps for. ward, her partner must, of necessity, step backward, and vke-versa; hence, while the lady executes the movements of the waltz in the regular order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, the gentleman begins by stepping backward on the left foot, and executes the movements in this order: 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3. As turning continuously in one direction would soon cause dizziness, the movements are reversed at will, and in order to effect this reverse easily, an intermediate movement called the Pursuit is introduced. The steps for the lady are as follows: 1. Slide forward on right foot (1). 2. Slide forward on left foot (2). 3. Bring right to fifth position, toes touching the heel of the left (3). 4. Slide forward on left foot (1). 5. Slide forward on right foot (2). 6. Bring left to fifth position, toes touching heel of right foot (3). The weight is changed from one foot to the other with each step. The movements for the gentleman are the reverse of those for the lady: 1. Slide...