GRACEFUL.
THE LATEST DANCE. PAIIIS APPROVES THE YALE. PARIS. Dec. 16. The Yale, the latest dance, which was .created by Oxford students, was introduced in Paris at the Dancing Professors’ Union, and, according to experts, will soon be all the rage at smart dances. It was demonstrated by .Professor Pradere and his partner. Mile. Ra.vmondon. and received unqualified approval. It was described as a gracetid combination of the fox trot, tango, and the hesitation, and after witnessing the exhibition the dancing professors declared that it would soon be popular in Paris. Other novelties, the kinkajou and the rhythmic step, were also demonstrated and approved. The kinkajou takes its name from the animal found in Mexico and Central and South America. It is about three feet long, and lias a long, slender, prehensile fail, with lustrous eyes and soft woolly brown tail. To dance the kinkajou one .must sway the shoulders, tango like a sailor manipulating a gangway, and then change from one foot to the other as though in pain, lifting each foot well oli' the ground. The rhythmic step is a more boisterous dance taken from the old German waltz, and resembles a combination of the Charleston and the polka.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 January 1928, Page 7
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