New Dances in the Ballroom

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6764, 23 January 1932, Page 11

New Dances in the Ballroom

THE LILT AND THE RUMBA ARE THE RAGE.

We learn from Miss Molly Townsend, who has just arrived from London to join Miss Margaret Stock in Palmerston North, that one of the season’s new dances is “the Lilt,” which is now being danced all over London and tho provinces to the gay strains of tho Irish Jig. Thero is no doubt that with tho revival of old time frocks, old time melodics aro becoming increasingly popular, and tho Lilt lias caught the fancy of tho dancing public. It has tho advantage of being easy to learn, its action is brisk in accordance with its carefree rhythm and the hold is the same as for tho fox-trot or waltz. The other new dance is‘‘the Rumba,” says Miss Townsend, who has been working in London with Miss Lvo Tyncgato Smith. Thi3 is somcuhat similar to a fox-trot but is made fascinating by the coupling of waltz steps with a four-time rhythm. Thero is nothing over exaggerated about it so it is much more likely to bo popular over hero than the Moochi, or similar •freak dances, which never made a wide appeal. Roth these dances aro being featured by Miss Stock and Miss Townsend in the ‘‘teachers’ week” which they arc holding in their studio next week.