DANCES OF THE DAY.
A REVISED TANGO.
WALTZ MORE POPULAR. A revised version of the tango will be the rai-e of the dance halls in the coming London season. The intricacies which made the old tango a thing for experts only, and had the effect of turning the average ballroom into a temporary home for wallKowers of both sexes, has been removed. Anyone who can dance at ad can tackle the revised version. 'It is almost a.i simple as a waltz, and resembles that old favourite in that there is a constant circulating and torward movement," said .\Jr. Charles d'Aioert, secretary and vicepresident of the Imperial Society of Dance teachers. "lhe new steps are quiet and graceful. There is no shoulder swinging. Beginning with a preliminary walking-step, there are five movements —Aigentino, El i'aseo, Vuelta, Media Vuelta, and Dentelles Argentine is a forward movement, almost'like the fox-trot, and El Paseo a moving side step. Vuelto is similar to the reverse waltz movement, and the Media Vuelta is like the first three steps oJ tlie reverse. Dentelles- is a. sort of pivotting movement, to get either half or wholly round the partner. The form of the dance is entirely left to the dancer's discretion and ability. There is ample scope for brains. '1 he daricer can evolve whatever figures he likes out of these different combinations. There is no fixed quantity, as in the case of the old quadrilles or lancers. 'The waltz," added Mr. d'Albert, "is arain coming back to favour, and is now done with a kind of hesitation movement. "The fox trot has very little change in it, but the one step has quite fallen into disfavour. There was so very little variety about the latter that it could hardly be called a dance at all. It was merely walking about, and is happily very little seen now. "Paris is in the grip of the new tango. They will have nothing else there. They have the advantage over us for the moment, in that orchestras and bands hav© lots of music for it in their repertoires."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18198, 18 September 1922, Page 9
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