BEST DANCERS IN WORLD

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 26 August 1935, Page 6

BEST DANCERS IN WORLD

IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLISH GIRLS TEACHERS VISIT LONDON (From Our Own Correspondent—By Air Mail.) LONDON, Aug. 3. English girls are the best dancers in the world, according to a party of United States women dancing teachers who are visiting London. The teachers are here to learn the secret of the English girls’" deportment, and have -spent several hours practising the court curtsy under the direction of Lady Peacock, wife of Sir Walter Peacock, formerly secretary of the Duchy of Cornwall. 'They have also balanced earthenware jars on- their heads to give graceful carriage, and done early morning exercises to make their limbs supple. The party came to London last week for the International Society of Dance Teachers’ Congress, and to exchange notes with eminent ballroom dancers in England. "But the main object of our visit is to learn the English deportment,” said one of their spokesmen. "English girls have a reputation for correct carriage, and although our girls go in for all kinds of exercises, and even- take lessons in deportment, they "We rush about a great -deal more can never equal that easy grace, than you do, and it is not easy to tcmember deportment. It must be bred in the English girls to carry themselves nroperly.” The leader of the party, Mrs Lucille Stoddart, a New York dancing teacher, said:— "I was amazed when I saw the standard set by young couples in the dance halls. "London leads the world in dancing. What London dances to-day, New York, Paris and Berlin will dance to-morrow. "In the United States we are only third-raters compared with you here and I am going back to try to show New York what you are doing.”