Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-27
NEW SOCIETY DANCES.
The Zulma Orientale and La Russo
the Reisning FavOrites.
From the St Louis Post Dispatch.

From the st Louis Post Dispatch.
The leading dancing masters have all returned
| from the east, where they have spent the sum-
| mer in search of novelties, and will generally
open their academies to-day. A reporter called
| on one of the professors to learn what there is
new in the way Of dances. The venerable mas
ter who has instructed two or three generations
| OF ST. Louisans in their zone. two, threes" had
lbeen in the city but a few hours. He spent the
summer in Virginia. but visited also New York,
Boston, Saratoga and Cape May. He said that
there is very little that is new which we will
| teach this year. The 'Zulma Orientale," or
"Zulma," as it Is generally called is popular in
| the east and will be introduced here It lie q
waltz which somewhat resembles the schot.
| tische. 1t can be danced in small
| space, 80 that it Is suitable to the parlor,
| but it looks better when danced around hall.
The music Is quite pretty. In the bon-tOn cir
| cles of New York and Boston, minuet steps pre-
| minuet waltz which is growing popular in ex-
elusive circles. In this the gentleman's arm
| does not .encircle the lady's waist, and only
hands are Joined. This variety of waltz has
been tried before, but never proved at all popu-
| lar. Generally all round dances are now PLAYED
slower than has been the custom for the past
few years. Indeed the day of furious and mad,
ungraceful Waiting is over, for which all really
good walters VIII be truly thankful. In the
hopping, skipping, gallOping waltzing which
| has prevailed for several seasons the light and
easy waltZer really made but little better show
than the worst mover on the floor. The pro-
fessor declares that the racquet is now utterly
| barred in all good eastern society," Personally.
he has always considered the dance ungracefui
| and vulgar. and has never taught it.
| call was also made upon another teacher Of
| the terpschorean art, who has just returned
| from Congress Hail. Saratoga, where he has
| been master of ceremonies for the past five
years. He said the Saratoga season had been a
very liveos one, but there was very little new in
the way of dances to report. The Saratoga and
Cape lancers have been reconstructed as hap
| pens annually. and some very pretty figures
| introduced. Both round and square dances are
| done to slower music than heretofore. In an
| swer to query as to what had been the fate of
| the racquet" he said that 1t was on the Con-
gress Hall program for the first three balls but
was then dropped at the request of the proprie-
| tor, Mr.. Clements, backed by sundry guests
The dance was going out Of style entirely in the
east. he said. He would. however. teach it this
year. as heretofore, If anybody desired It, as he
never made a practice Of debating to patrons
Personally he never liked the racquet
The chief new dance which he will introduce
this year will be LA Russo, which is played in
waltz time, only much slower resembles q ma
| zOurka, with the addition of new step every
three or four bars. 1t is very graceful and has
never been danced here. Polo quadrilles are
likely to remain popular for another season.