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THE SAME.
"It is strange when a coun
try goes crazy over a thing,
some other country must bear
i the blame.
"We blame the Tango on
"South America, and over there
they call everything except the
Waltz and Tango ' cette folk
danse Americaine ' (that crazy
American dance). But they are
all doing it, and after all we
P'lzPP' because it is
something to start a thing and
have all Europe copy it, even
if it is crazy.
"They think over there that
all Americans are quite mad
anyway, so one dance more or
less to our credit, or discredit,
means nothing'
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tCopjrrlght: 1013: By EUlo JanU.
EVERYWHERE I went last ummr in Europe I
managed to see dancing of some kind, and while
w are putting all kinds of stepa to all kinds of
times, with no aense of fchame, I think there may
be some among those steps that I saw In Berlin, Venice,
orusBeis inoi lorgeiung mat spiendia little city on the
.Hirer Seine known as Faris) that we might adopt
, In the first place the ragtime crare was at its height
iui;hiicPiuu m rrsiaurauu wnere tne slimmer be
fore you had heard dreamy French waltzes in which
the Parisians excel you would be compelled to eat your
Bole Margery to the strains of " I Want to Be in Dixie "
played all wrong. It's funny about the foreign musi
cians. They can play "Tres Moutarde " or "La So-J-eila
' so snappily that you can't sit still while they are
playing them, but when it comes to an American rag
they are lost They don't understand our syncopation,
nd they play them all too ivlow, consequently when they
Start to do the dindon gai (turkey trot) as they call it,
they ware from side to side madly. Really, you could
aot escape ragtimover there last summer, try as you
would.
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f Pretty Cermtih Waltzing Step.
While in Prague (Bohemia), the city of churches, I
got ao tired of wandering about looking up pt interior
decorations that I insisted on seeing some life. So in
the good company of two Austrian gentlemen, mother
and I sallied forth in search of excitement. We were
told that there wa one cabaret that was very, very
exciting, so we went there. After much red tape and
the poor Atistrians I using vajl their influence to get us
Inside of the fascinating place, we got in. I had it fixed
firmly in my mind that I would see the dance of the
eren veils or eomething equally exciting. We got in
just In time for the feature of the evening, which
turned tut to be two of the blackest American darkeys
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In Brussels and Dc&scntaetd In
Thia Art-iol. Grs hioad Thrown
Well BocK Almofet Roisitin On
Partners . 3ho'uldar.v'
in the world anyway.' - It starts slowly and dreamily and
slowly gets more and more rapid until finally the finish
is awe inspiring. And there were old bearded men there
who got up and made the average young man look very
feeble. ,
Variation tq the One Step.
Vm not going to try to teach you a dance that I hare
only a bowing acquaintance with, but the last step of the
czardas I have tried to a one step and it makes a very
good variation. It's like this: The man and girl stand
side by side looking opposite directions. The man puts
hia arm about the girl's waist as they are standing, and
the girl puts hers around the man's waist So they
are in position shown in the picture. They then step
on the feet that are next to each other, the man's right
and the girl's left and go around In a circle, all the time
2oing forward on their inside feet and pushing them
selves along with the outside feet. As they push on too
inside feet they bring the heel down hard with a click
and tap the outside toe right afterwards, which sounds
like a quick one two, one two. They go eight steps one
way and then make a quick reverse, the man turning
facing the opposite way and the girl doing the same,
and the same steps that way.
It'a a wonderful danoe and can be dona well to one
step music. In Venice the only dancing w could find
was over at the Lido, a wonderful bathing resort about
twenty minute away from there. We went over one
uigbt, but as there were mostly Americans and English
DIP
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VENICE.
Man end Girl Step On Left Fceb
Throw Right Lefl O ver, Th ejn Le.ft
BocK and Riajnr- Over Rejoin.
coast turkey trot. They were a great hit. So mother
and I went home to bed baying, "Foiled again!"
That's just one example of how ragtime lias reached
every corner of Europe. Now, in Berlin, -while they try
all the dances, they still have a soft spot in their hearts
for the old fashioned waltz, and I saw some pretty steps
done by the waltzing Germans; for instance, one step
that I think would be very effective in our Boston, or as
a new variation of the hesitation waltz, can be done
like this: The man rests his right hand lightly on the
girl's shoulder and she rests her right hand on his left
shoulder. Leaning well back from each other they hold
tjheir other hands straight out at their sides and then
they start to waltz or Boston, whichever you prefer.
Personally, I think strict one, two, three waltz time is
better for this dance. Thcy waltz, leaning from side to
side as they do so, twice each way, as in the old Ger
man dances we have seen danced to " Lieber Augustine."
Now we have bend to right, waltz one, two, three, bend
to left, waltz one, two, three. . Again right and once
more left Then the ; dancers stop, take theic Jbands
from each other's shoulders and stamp i tlieir feet one.
other and place their hands on their hips. Theothef
repeat the waltz movement, only this time with oppo
site hands, the man's left on the girl's right shoulder
and the girl's right on the man's left shoulder. - Re
pent the waltzing from side to side as they did before
and repeat the stamp of the feet, one, two, three at the
end of the step twice. Then they do' this wme variation
standing side by side with their arms about each other.
Waltz from side to side and the etamp at the finish as
they did before. They put a great deal of life in the
stamping of their feet, and, in fact, they do all this
variation with a great deal of abandon; they seem like
big, laughing children just out for a good time.
In Brussels we went to the Palate d'EGt, where they
had a marvelous variety show and then dancing after,
ward. They had an unusual dance there. The publls
were not favoring it much, but the specialty dancers
did it and then I saw some of the more brave ama
teurs tackling it and it seemed quite easy, It was tike
this: The entire dance was done with the girl's back to
When the. Ri ht bed Comes Over t ha
5econd Ti me. t h2- Dancers Dip Very Low
On It With Left Leg Out Beht i-Vd Them.
ijwice each way, starting first to the right, then to the
left, and after that they start again as if they were goinf
to two step, but instead of two steps they do eighty
steps, or, rather, small slides around in a circle. At the '
end of eight slides they are around to where they started
. from, then they repeat the same steps again, starting
to the left, two step that way, two hack to the right
and then to the left for eight slides around in a circle to
the left and right back to where they started from. They
did-several other Steps, but ae I only, saw them once
these two variations are all that I .could grab end ex
plain fully. These are, I know, quite practical, for I
have tried thorn. The couple that I saw were dancing to ,
the latest tune from America (as Brussels pu! it), called
"Everybody' Doing It"
j( In Carlsbad, Austria, there are , many smart Hun
garlans, and at a ball there one night, where all the
Americans were one-stepping and all the French - were
tangoing, and all the English were busy on their famous
non reversing waits, the Hungarians waxed Impatient
the man, both his arms about her waist tnd both. her ; and finally, asked jthe. orchestra t( piay tneir nan ve
hands restlnir on his hands as If to. hold them tbereTand'dance, the caardasrandi; believe me, when they start ,on
IoueTTTawru. right, left, she ThroWY her" head Vel tnne of Waiting fo? the Robert E. Lee, no one i too
uri r: WlTu.;".,,Jr- 'l -wt-Wfolar Barbary two times. During. this stamping they are facing each shoulder. Now they do' thi bid fashioned two step up' and W their eyea It is the most wonderful music oM to-dance- a one step. . . ' 1 ; ; , .
there, it being a little eany lor tneir lasnioname Ital
ian season, we did not see much that we had not seeu
before. They had, however, a professional dancing
teaeher, a Greek, who with a most fascinating Italian
partner, was tearing off all the steps of all nations.
They did one step to a waltz' that was pretty. I asked
an American boy what the man called the step and he
said the Lido dip.
So here we have it: Boston firstr then-awingout sid
by side, and starting with the left foot do as follows:
Both, man and girl step on left, swing right leg across
with a brtad swing, step on right, and throw left leg
over right just the seme way. Now we have right over,
left over, and then right over again, and bend same until
tUF knee almost toucheshe ground and theJeft leg goes
right out behind. Then up again and throw the left
leg over, right leg over, and left over again with the
same dip done with the right knee bent almost touching
i.c ground and the left leg right out behind. After that
etvlng into the. waits position, Boston eight beats, and
then swing side by side and repeat same. That is the
Lido dip.
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Blame Americans fot " Crozj " Dances.
These are all good frteps In my opinion, and as the
popular idea is to know as many steps as possible I
thought they might interest the dancing public. It is
strange in at wnen a country goes crazy over & wing
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the tanco on South America, and over there they call
everything except the waits and tango " cette folle danse :
Amerisalne " (that crasy American dance). But they
are all doing it and after all we can't complain, becauss '
it ia something to vtart a thing and have all Europe copy
it, even if it Is crazy. They think over there that all
Americans are quite mad anyway, bo one dance more or
lesa to our credit or against us means nothing,
la England they think nothing , of (our barbarous ,
dances, where the man holds the girl in a more or less
tight embrace, and I can understand it, for really, the?
average Englishman, when dancing wjth you, holds you
off ao far that you think yoq are- dancing alone.
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old ateps up to date. I personally telieve there is now
step-too bid to be dan?ed. to'the one step,' and from the
length of some of the beards I've eeen waving to tha
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