Dancing has a disreputable history.
The path of the dance is a slimy trail back through half-civilized people to the very heart of savagery. As to the modern dance, it originated in the beer gardens of Germany among lustful men and dissolute women. A man named Gault, a French dancing master, originated the waltz in 1627. In an attempt to ruin his sister, he strangled her to death. For this he was beheaded in 1632.