The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-11
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THE CAPRICE.

Yes, 1t is really true. These dances are
to be seen this winter at the most fashion
able hops, balls and assemblies. twill sur
prise you a little at first, unless you are pre-
pared for something of the kind, but being
prepared for it you will not think after you
have witnessed the dances once or twice
that they are any worse than the oldtime
waltzes, polkas and quadrilles.
Indeed If you are Of particularly hyper
sensitive, super refined nature, it will seem
to you in much better taste for young wo-
mon to stand up side by side, and kick at
rhythmic unison all by themselves so to
speak, rather than throw their arms around
strange men and waltz and polka in the
old style. AS you grow more and more &C.
customed to the new dances, the old dances
will seem to you almost immoral and you
will wonder that you were ever bold enough
TO permit strange man, mere acqualnt-
ance, to approach you and encircle your
waist with his arm, while you calmly laid
one hand on his shoulder, reposed your
head against the front of his coat, grasped
his other hand and sailed away, held as if In
vice while whole room full looked on
and admired.
Doesn't it sound awful when it is put in
just that wayl Yet isn't 1t true.
The dancing teachers are quite joyful
over the turn which dancing matters have
taken, and they predict that all the old
time popularity will come back, having lost
nothing by its half dozen years Of COM
parative quiet.
OF course the Desarte, which figures in
everything now, is not absent from the new
dancing. The wrigglings and swayings and
the turnings, the bending backward and the
bending forward which were taught to large
classes at Newport this summer, are not to
be lost when 1t comes to the the winter 3
dances. In the minuet particularly,
THE DELsARTE SYSTEM
of graceful movement is called into play.
Having taken course Of Dels9rte lessons,
and having succeeded in freeing herself
from all the Old set ways of motion, young
woman can turn her head in one direction,
her shoulders in another, her hips in the
third and finging her arms and her feet to
the four winds of heaven, can execute as
graceful a fandango or as pretty fling as
one would care to see.
So great is the popularity of this kind of
dancing at present., that at one of the most
fashionable academies at Washington the
young women were required to execute
skirt dances upon their last commencement
day.
There were few Essays read, just to give
proper tone to the affair, but the real fea-
ture of the graduation lay In the pretty
dancing which took place after the monot-
ony of the regular school programme had
been gone through with.
Eighteen young women prettily gowned
in white fluttering ribbons and gauzy dra-
peries, stood up side by side, and, lifting
their skirts little at the side began to
bend and to sway and to kick to the music
Of popular band which was stationed be-
hind some shubbery. There were darkey
dances introduced, besides combinations OF
the different ones mentioned. And last but
very far from least, the young women gave
the GROWING stroke of the afternoon enter
tainment and completed their education by
| treating the audience to real pigeon wing
| ? Everybody has heard of cutting pigeon
wing, but very few have seen it done. The
girls had practiced for months on it, and
they were all past grand mistresses of the
art AUGUSTA PREsCoTT.