The morning times., 1895-09-08
Nem Dances
For Winter
STEPS THAT WILL SOON MOVE
TO MUSIC.
Cowboy Reel, Golfers Polka,
Sailors Galop and Span
ish Minuet.

Season after season dancing figures and
formulas vary; long popular ones aret thrown
out of use; old ones revived or entiray
new expressions Incorporated IN bah room
lists. The waltz, however. continues 10
enjoy a vigorous old age. to be followed
with more dignified grace than formerly.
The movement this coming winter will be
without the frivolous hop, but as near an
imitation as one can reach, Of the West
Point method, a flowing, easy and very
long glide step.
To the gallant officers OF our stout war
ships, that all autumn have ranged about
the great east coast resorts, is due the re-
vivaI, for winters use, Of a dance famOusIy
popular twenty-five years ago. This is
the gaIlop, so suited for long white decks,
when modified with side step, to right
and left, after four long, straight glides
and a finale OF three waltz turns, Just be-
fore the music ceases
INTRODUCED BY MRS. VANDERBILT
After nearly seven years OF hard servics
the famous barn dance has been complete
ly dropped, and very charming readap.
tation Of II brought back under the name
OF the Spanish ninUet. In this the young
man leads his lady forth by her left hand
held gracefully aloft, Just as the couples
in court nlinuet stand up 10 the first fig
uTe-with well pointed toes and three
curtsies they advance three, six, nine
PAGES, then, as the music QuickenS, fallintO
a long, rapid waltz step in the conventional
positions. This was given its first official
trial, as a variation in the simple waltz
and staCCtao polka for the german, at Mrs
Cornelius Yanderbnt's- great bail this sum
mer, and since has been vigorously fol-
lowed q all the smaller entertainments
To a lively little CitiZeneSs from Brooklyn
is due the Introduction OF the Brooklyn
sChottisChc. and with her own nimble feet
she has invented a brand new gay little
measure called the Golfers Polka be
cause it was first danced at the golf club
houses at her iustigariou and has hazards
and buukers very difficult for the uDiui-
tiated TO overcome. Its Cleveruess consists
in polking through doOrways, over all man
ner OF obstacles, aud actually up AMI down
stairs But to an earnest golfer hazards
are set for the pure JOY Of overcoming them,
and q polka invariably winds up the gamer
held this autumn at every resort
Touching square dances, the simple old
Saratoga lauciers sJoutly holds its own,
and society has reoTga uized the quadriue-
No longer do the couples balance as side TO
the sides and the end 10 thcends as formerly,
but the side couples dance TO thee nd couples,
after a diagonal fashion, and every figure
breaks into Waiting.
A COTILLION FIGURE.
The german, meanwhile, has taken on
new and wonderful forms, chief among
them the coaching figure, when three
couples, at the blast OF a horn, rise, and,
iOIned by ribbon reiDs, dance twice about
the drawing room, gathering full com
plement of followers. that must not num-
Der more men and women than the seats
Of a coach Will hold. The favurs are
whips, spurs, stirrups and the like, and
when q half dozen such turnOuts are on
the floor the music changes rapidly to
polka, twO-step7 waltz, gaIlop and yurEe
which the dancers must Instantly follow,
keeping their proper groupings OF couples
as they whirl past a judges stand At
the end OF the figure a series OF prize IA
vurs are awarded, even into the fifth and
sixth grade Of comparative merit
COW BOY REEL.
Nowadays, when weary satin-shod feet
are almost ready to turn homewards, the
indefatigable musicians no longer play
I'D as Il final measure, the familiar strains
of the Virginia reel Even under the
suiSe OF Sir Roger de COverly this hearty
square dance is no longer the last on the
programme, and all because a frolcSome
young person who had been playing at
COW boy out in the West brought back
with him a civilized edition OF an Indian
war dance, that has captivated the polite
drawing rooms. This is a compromise
between the Highland sChottiSche and a
Hungarian gypsy dance, with features truly
American, punctuated with conventional
lied Comanche hoyyIs and a brilliant finale,
with the squaws and braves racing round
in a wide circle, and so out the drawing
room door at a signal
FRANCIS ELLERTON