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NEW-OLD FOX TROT.
CHARLESTON TO THE
RESCUE.
How" a popular dance "grows up."
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926,
£1,000,000 LOST,
“ANNUAL BILL FOR THEFT
AND DAMAGE..
The boss, however, is decreasing yearly, despite the greater number of articles carried, and it is amall compared with America's annual bill. It is estimated that in Ameri- ca careless loading of trucks along. cause damage amounting to
3,600,000.
More than £1,000,000 18. lost every year by traders, railway and- In the late Victorian days, and insurance companies and private even in the early days of the individuals of this country owing. present century, the majority of to goods and parcels being dam- dancing' masters failed to recog-aged or lost in transit. nise the fact that ballroom dancing should not be taught na though Its technique wore Identical with the technique of the ballet. #
We were invited to point our toes, make graceful little curves with them along the floor, stand in first positions" and generally commanded to be so formal and conventional that the average' Thefts, accidents, badly packed young Englishman of the day crates and parcels, and improperly came to the conclusion that good loaded truck, are the principal dancing was "bad form and becauses of the loep. came first a wallflower and then stayed away altogether.
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Then a few years before the war certain set of enthusiastic dancers, declining to have their ardour damped, cast aside their instructors, danced as they them gelves liked; and slowly but un- conaciously began to evolve the new ballroom technique.
The. now ballroom technique may be described briefly as the application of nutural movement- to the requirements of the ball room. For instance, when we advance, the leg must swing for ward freely from the hip and the heel must reach the ground first as in ordinary walking.
Three Stages of a Dance. The modern technique in this country has "been greatly in fluenced by the fact that we strongly object to making exhibi- tions of ourselves, and in conge quence an endeavour is made to discover the very simplest and most natural steps which will carry our bodies round the room in sympathy with the Nlt of the music-compatible, of course, with a certain amount of variety.
Ever since the modern technique came in, this desire for natural, simple, and unostentatious steps has been the dominant force in English ballroom dancing. At times, as I shall point out, it has been temporarily submerged in some craze of the moment, but it has always re-asserted itself.
Bearing in mind the above re- marks, let us now study for a moment the "life-story" of every really popular ballroom dance. It will be found that it passes through three clearly-defined
atages. These are:
The railway companies of Great. Britain paid out £701,000 last year' in compensation for goods and pro- erty lost and damaged in transit. for £35,000, while the Post Office Insurance companies met claims
admitted responsibility for £5,400.
In addition, there must be in cluded damage to uninsured arti cles and to packages proved to have been packed so badly by the sender that the transport companies could not be held responsible. The an- nual losses caused in this way bre
estimated to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
"Compensation paid by the rail ways is diminishing each year," said an official of the Railway Companies' Association to a Daily Express representative. "In 1921 the bill was more than $1,000,000.
only a minor cause nowadays, as "Improper packing in trucks is the staffs are highly efficient. Tem- Porary leas and theft quickly send up the bill, but pilfering is being reduced now that trucks are sent ed.
"A Post Office official considered that £5,400, compensation was a small amount when the number of parcels was taken into considera- tion. "More than 140,000,000 par-- cels," he said, "passed through the offices of the country last year." In 1923 there was a daily average of 1,000 breakages in the parcels post.
"We refuse to accept risks on certain articles sent by rail be- cause they are so frequently dam- aged," said an insurance company official. "In the ordinary way we will not grant policies for motor- cycles, glass, china, crockery, and
earthenware, "
First, the stage of birth, when it first makes its bow in our ball- rooms in probably a dozen difer- ent forms to discover suitable steps for the new rhythm without which no new dance is possible.
Secondly, the stage of growth, when the dominant force of the An official of Selfridge's praised new technique begins to make the railways.
"Some articlea," he added, "re-. quire a special rate. We have quoted for a box of glass eyes, and I know of a onelegged man who periodically senda a wooden leg to a factory for overhauling."
"Our claim for
itself felt and variations which compensation is extremely small." are not natural, simple and he said. "Far less damage is done unostentatious arc slowly
but in transit in this country than in surely dropped,
America, where, as the rates are Thirdly, the stage of maturity, high, the goods are packed in' when the ideal steps have been lighter coverings to reduce ex- found. The steps become "ideal" penses." when their resultant combination is in complete harmony with the spirit of the times..
with Its
simple,
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The over-standardisation of the All my readers will easily re-old fox-trot made many of us so member and can trace for them- bored with the mechanical preci- solves the above. three stages in sion required by the modern the history of the fox-trot. There technique was its long-drawn-out Infant unostentatious and natural steps, stage, covering the period of the that the moment the stranger had war and the hectic, days of the fairly set its foot within our gates Armistice. Then came the second we called: "The King is dead, stage when its freak steps and Long live the King," and promptly eccentricities slowly disappeared, proceeded to jettison technique and finally came its maturity stage and introduce stops every bit as when the slow competition style freakish as were those seen in was finally evolved.
post-Armistice times.. Once a
dance has reached . Were the now "quick-time" and maturity one of two things must Charleston" danced with a happen.. It will remain In statu rhythm entirely different from the quo' and so, failing to keep up old fox-troty undoubtedly the lat with the moving times, It will ter would die. They are, however, decay and pass into oblivion; or of a similar rhythm. Consequent- It will absorb some fresh ideas, asly, when the "dominant force" the valse has done from time to the new technique-begins to. time, and be re-born as a slightly assert itself and suppress the ten- changed dance.
porary outbreak of freakisbhess as it is already doing--It will have all the experience gained in the days of the slow foxtrot to help it; and that is why I feel very con- fident that the next; ätage of. maturity" in the foxtrot cycle
If a dance be too standardised when it reaches maturity, It is all the more likely to pass away as it will not be so readily receptive to fresh influences.
All the time the old-foxtrot was attaining its maturity we had knocking at our doors, the Ameri- will witness a dance which is a can version of Rhythmic Walk combination of the old fax-trot with its compelling faster rhythm, with the quicktime and the but the English fox-trot so truly represented our requirements of. the moment that no loophole was: loft for the American cousin to alip in.
Charleston,
** The first stop will be an amál- gamation of the two last named. but all the time this, amalgama- Quicker Fox-trots.
tion is taking place the old fox- Unfortunately our cracka" in trot will be exerting a compelling the big competitions so standar- dised the old fox-trot that its influence as the logical representa- development was stopped, decay tive, of the dominant force" the set in, and at once the faster fox modern technique. Philip J. S trot Beized its opportunity and
Richardson in Ex stepped into the breach.."
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