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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
17, 1936.
NEW STEPS for a
HIS month everybody's thoughts
Tturn to dancing again...But,
learning any new steps, they should apend several evenings getting back "into form." This really means looking for their faults and correcting them.
We all know, for instance, the dancer who bendy both knees all the time. She looks as if the is fighting her way through very deep snow, and her partner's lega probably get a few bruisen from knocking into them.
Bend the front knee slightly when you are taking a long step back, to keep the body upright.
SEASON
-by- Mary Benedetta
of DANCING
At the same time the heck MOTORISTE HAINBATHER FURNIZAKIR NAISTELE TEFEKT EXALTAISEN DRITAI knee should be stretched al straight. Dance from your hi downwards, nat
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you
knees down, and your knee wyll then behave as they should, THE "STRADDLERS"
Then there are the "trad- diers" whose feet never niet each other, with a distressingly gawky result.
Every time the feet pass make them just brush to gether on the insides.
wear
Good dancers
thei shoes out all down the inside of the foot.
If you dance in the corrvel position, and make your body convey your legs, instead of trying to make your lega takie your body along, then you are more than half-way toward being a good dancer.
DO NOT
SNATCH”
Men do t like partners who snatch the alps AWHY from them. This often happens with people who are crus- tomed to dancing together However well you know the ateps, let the man draw into them, but without beings Alow to follow him. They also hate women who droop Heavily on their shoulders and expect to be more or less taken for a ride.
People who date a good drał in orowded restaurants are apl to appear ronted to the floor under their feet. This is very exhausting to whoever has to dance with them.
Dancers should never lose that sense of continual flow- ing movement, which is best
Modern Viennese Waltz-
Follow the steps of the
Season's Newest Dance
Dere's a "film" of the two Turns in the dance. For the Walk, read the direction in Mary
instin's article.
The Turn
1 Back on the left-one
2 Right foot to the side...
two,
foot up La beloging feet together
theen.
4 Righ fust forward-
GLAND.
S Bring left foot op to it without putting your weight down, and hesi. late-two-three,
(You are turning all the
linin),
described as "carry through," You can still keep it on a crowded floor by making all your steps much smaller.. And now the now step.
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Reverse Turn
C Back on right-one,
7 Left foot to aide-two
8 Bring right foot to left.
3 Left foot forward. one.
10 Bring right foot up to
without putting weight down, and hesitate- two-- three.
ic
There is nothing exaggerated variations of stops from t. about the new season's dancing, girl's:
and most of the steps * THE WALK variations of old favourites.
Step back with the left fast The new dance is a modern on the first heat-one. Draw Viennese waltz, and is a cross the right foot up to it. with- between an old-fashioned waltz out putting any weight on it, and a modern one, danced to and hesitate for the last two music with a tempo between the
beats-two, three. Back right, two. It has come into being For the two "Turns"-in-the-
continuing the same way. because of the popular craze for waitz follow the film strip din- dancing the old-fashioned waltz,
But instead of just turning gram above.
dizzily to the music, there are These are the first and most all kinds of attractive new, important steps of the Viennese. steps und delightful
hesitations.
little waitz, and once you can do them the remaining variations
A graceful gown for the new dance season could be made on the lines of the white failiè Worth model shown here, although most dancers might find it more convenient with- but the brein.
IS YOUR ENGLISH CORRECT?
"SUBSTITUTE" AND "REPLACE"
These words ere often con- fused....
To "sichgiine" property icons te put something in the place of something else," not to "take the place of."
This you "ubstitute paper money for gold" and apcale of the mubstitution of paper money for gold. Wrong is to "sub- stitute pild by paper mones, and "the mubatitution of 'gold by paper money."
The test is, Can you put the word "replace" instead of "sulis stitute and "replacement" in- mead of "mibstitution.“If pole can, then your use of sub- stitute and "substitution", la Wrong, and "replace" and "re- placement" are the correct words 10 tis.
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