The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-08
LATEST THING in DANCES
CORONATION GAvOTTE" WILL RULE
SOCIETY THIS WINTER.
Created by n Terre Haute Master
Waltz Mingled with the Minuet-
Movements Are Stately.

NEW YORK. Sept. THE dancing mas
tiers, while in session here, decreed that the
Coronation Gavotte" should be the main
thing in the way Of dances this fall and
winter. Oebutantes will delight in It. for
it is stately dance. The somewhat tlase
society devotees will revel in it because
it is more restful than the romping two
step, which has had such sway for half a
decade. Those who glory in the enchant-
ing swing of the slow-gliding waltz will
find renewed pleasure in the ballroom with
the coronation gavotte' as a>pastime, for
it mingles the minuet with the may
waltz to a charm.
You take your partner upon the floor,
and, while the music Is droning along with
some dreamy waltz, you bow TO the right
and the left and describe a semi circle with
the tip Of your patent leather shoe. This
is all mere preliminary. Your partner has
been doing the same all the while, With
many a glance from one side to the other,
like Spanish senorita when the orchestra
plays La Gitana" at the carnivals of
Madrid. Then you take your partner by
the hand. She steps around lightly to the
other side and smiles and bows some more.
You are supposed to recognize these bows
by "courtesying' a little yourself. Next
you place your arm around your partner as
in the old-fashioned waltz, holding her
elbow so as to allow her arm from the ell
bow down to her finger tips to rest lightly
upon your arm above the elbow. This is
little more loving than the old style of
waltz, where you simply take the girls
hand and fly around as IL you were pump
ing on an old-faspioned farm pump handle,
but it is far more comfortable and GER
tainly causes the young woman to look as
if she was at least on speaking terms with
her a few 4lihpS al tha wa ofp IN
brings you back again to the mnuet part of
the coronation gavotte, and you do some
more smiling and bowling, just as If you
had a lace handkerchief in one hand, a
snuffbox in the other and white wig on
your head, saying nothing of the knicker-
bockers and white satin. slippers. The
coronation gavotte" is offered to society
this year by MIR. Oskar Duenweg, a dancing
master of Terre Haute. Ind.
Another new one that has been passed
favorably by the convention is to be known
as the Waltz Dip" Now, don't think this
the old regulation Boston Dip" which sent
you dropping to the floor three times after
several glides of the waltz step. 1t is quite
different. You and your partner take two
glide steps as If Waiting, that is to say,
the well-knOwn motion forward and back
ward, and then The lady glides off to the
side with an oblique step. which. further
than to make her appear extremely coquet-
fish. enables her to show her tiny foot from
beneath a perfect Niagara of lingerie Re-
covering your composure, you follow the
lady and both or you, as II by inspiration
make two slight dips. which bring you
back to position again, ready to repeat
r. w. Vizay. president of the association
who is dancing instructor at the United
States Military Academy, said: II approve
of the recent turn in dancing. Everything
now is looking backward TO our old digni-
fed and stately dances. There is less OF
the hilarious romping around the floor
such as the two-step furnished the youns
people in America and Great Britain during
the war campaigns recently. Just get
band started on a march and you would see
the boys and girls fly away on two-steT
as If they were all skipping of to war
that are being approved now by the teach
ers of the art are such as bring back into
play the old forms OF dancing-a snatch
here and there of the minuet, the gavotte
the waltz After all, there is nothing NOR,
thrilling than the OLD slowglide waltz anC
1t is gradually coming back TO rule society
at all big balls"