The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-06
RETURN TO The hop WALTZ
AND TO SQUARE DANCES, SAY THE
TEACHERS or DANCING.
They're Converting Here Again. but In
strictly Executive session They're All
Misters Now, Professor Got 80 Com
mon-Gems OF Thought From Terry Hut

bat at the same time yesterday Wneh inc
ywenty-ninth annual convention Of the
american Society OF Professors Of Dancing
cot together In the Majestic Hotel bali
room. Low browed reporter persons and
the rest OF the proletariat had to stand.
ha, in hand. in the corridors and drink in
the music of a piano from afar. The pro-
ressors are not here to be joshed by che
Ill informed.
"Once we permitted a reporter from
The SIN to ENTER explained Mr.. Oskar
Duenweg Of Terry HUT, Ind. but In pre-
senting to his readers his impressions OF
the terpsichorean innovations he had wit
messed he approached the subject from q
matcrialistic viewpoint
1T was to laugh, you mean"
Precisely. Really, now, the report
wasn't so badly written, but the language
was far from digniied and-and-well.
these papers get out to the folks at home
who don't understand
The eminent educators at the conven-,
tion nav disagree as to whether a gent
dancing with his bundle has an aesthetic.
right to take of his coat provided he keeps
his hat on. But on the subject Of permit
ting the underdone to invade the sanctum
while savants from Medicine Hat, Wyo.,
showed metropolitan masters from She
heygan. Wis. and other points in the efete
East just what's going TO be what when
the Medicine Hat dinner dance season
opens, the professors were as united as
is the Sullivan clan on politics.
So, lust because The Sun approached
the subject from a coarse, mAterialistic
viewpoint, and allowed slang to creep in,
when. as everybody knows, all art criticism
should be handled with pink silk gloves,
lust for that the forty Misters OF Dancing
and the half dozen Misses md Missuses,
who hail from coast to coast. did their
convpntloning behind closed doors.
That word professor, by the way, got
into the title of the association back in
the old days before professor, became
90 hopelessly vulgar, and now it has to be
swallowed with much blushing. Nowadays
when James Brander Matthews, Bernarrr
M'Fad'n. Arlo Bates, Billy Muldoon and
every mothers son that occupies a chair
in a university or in a chiropodist works,
and every man who directs a balloon at a
county fair, lacks the title on his name,
the leading examplars OF things terpsicho-
rean cut Il out.
Therefore it was Mister George Wilson
OF Portland, Me-, the president OF the asso
citation, that presided at the morning and
afternoon sessions yesterday. There was
a hot tip handed out among the artists
that at the election of officers to-day Mister
T. A. Holland Of Springfield, Mass, will
get the money in the Presidential Epturity,
with Mister Wilson played for place and
Mister Henry DOring of Troy, which is in
this State, a safe bet for show.
Mister Oskar Duenweg of Terry HUI
stepped to the plate when the game was
called yesterday forenoon and handed out a
new one he calls the Encore Waltz. As a
chunk Of art it's a pippin-all peachy glides
and creamy balances and things that lay
folks can't appreciate. but which are in
serted here and there just as Michael An
geo would slap a spot OF crimson in one
place and a bunch OF Alice blue in another
that the beautiful might be attained.
These balances are woven in Uhere's no
use trying to explain what a balance In
because you wouldn't understand IL any
way especially for persons suffering from
explained,
For. IN sooth. IN some tn suricular drum
Is altogether on the bum:
Though "on the bum" IL not, we think,
As dignihed DC -on the blink"
The balances are of absolutely no use
in clearing up eye, nose or throat ahec-
tons, but you ant beat 'em for melodious
deafness, the educators say. The re-
porter gathered from this explanation that
the physical exercise got while balancing
hurries the blood supply toward the Ru-
ricular tissues and so stimulates them.
This. however. may be the hopelessly
ludicrous inference OF an underdone ma
terialist.
Immediately after the exemplifcation
OF the Encore Waltz Mister Wilson of Port
land, who was the next artist on the batting
list, put the bunch wise IN his little classic
for childen" called the Gavotte Majestic.
Then Mister Doring Of Troy opened his
satchel and flashed another new wrinkle
called the Opera Waltz. Mister p. b,
Carpenter of Providence. r. l.. and Miss
Kitty Ma han of Denver put it all over
some swell stunts in German figures at
the afternoon session. The game was
then called on account OF darkness and
the orchestra put the cover on his piano
and went home.
There are two kinds Of dancing" began
Mister Duenweg, who read his Interview
70 the reporters, @the, one called social
dancing and the other plastic dancing.
Now here's another Thought I jOtted down.
It's some place on this paper. No, / be-
leve it's in this little red notebook. Oh,
yes, here it is. The METHODS Of social danc-
ing express the height to which the in
telligence Of the individual has been de-
veloped.
As ] said that another thought flashed
through me. Ii is this-dancing comes in
closer touch with perfection as the intelli-
gence of a people is the more highly de-
yeloped. Here's another bit-one can't
help. plying a person suffering from two
stepitis. Also-the requirements OF social
dancing are lightness, gracefulness and a
proper appreciation OF the rules OF good
taste.
In a word, y Mister Duenweg went on,
looking up from his interview, dancing
Is a visual expression of happiness. In
social dancing only the enjoyment OF the
dancer ia to be considered, but in plastic
dancing"
Put us wise to that plastic : chorused
the underdone.
Plastic dancing is what is commonly
known as stage dancing or fancy steps
Like in a burlesque shown"
ANY stage dancing. Now, in plastic
dancing the enjoyment Is shifted from the
dancer to the onlooker. We, Of course, have
TO do with social dancing principally,
although not altogether, and one big object
OF our annual meeting Is to talk over and
correct existing abuses and mannerisms."
Have any Of you been down to see the
Coney spielers,' asked one art critic, who
cheWed tobacco and smoked cigarettes at
the same time.
You will find" answered the mister,
that in the coming year society will 20
back 70 square dances, reels and ~laneers,
and that the old hop waltz will supersede
the glide to some extent.
In Terry Hut or New York society,""
All over the country. Some OF your
teachers here assure me that the square
dances are becoming more and more popu-
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