Latest in the Ballroom
Miss Beth Parkes has. returned to her studio in Palmerston North with all the ■ latest dances and variations brought direct from London’s leading ballroom professionals by Phyllis Bates.
Miss Parkes considers this season should be extremely interesting with the ever-increasing popularity of the simple and fascinating “crush dancing’’ and two new dances —tho Argentine tango and the new Charleston. The Argentine tango is more gay and stacatto than last year’s creepy tango, while the new Charleston is not very different from tho flat Charleston, which swept through the ballrooms in 1926. Miss Parkes says it must not be imagined that it is like the American Charleston with all its twists and flourishes, that are familiar to us with the very short skirts of ten years ago. English teachers have toned it down, so that we may look forward to a quiet rhythmical movement not unlike crush dancing. But theso are not all that are in vogue. The Eumba is still danced with enthusiasm, especially in England, where it has established itself on every dance programme.*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 64, 17 March 1936, Page 11
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179Latest in the Ballroom Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 64, 17 March 1936, Page 11
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