QUEEN ELIZABETH AND DANCING
“Why- Happy Cliildten Dance” is the title of a delightful article Roberta Douglas 'contributes to “The Baby’s World ’ for October. Tracing the history of this popular pastime, she reminds us that in iour own country dancing may 1m ceritainly traced back to the fourteenth century, when the Morris Dance, supposed to Ire of Moorish origin, was introduced, when John of Gaunt. returned from Kpuin. “Dancing,” she writes, "was ■ of all 1 ,amusements the most popular at the iCourt.-of' Queen Elizabeth, who was heri*elf a very fine dancer, it is recorded of: young Hatton that‘he first captivated the heart of the Queen by his performance of ,'a. gaillarde. Uuo of the movements ■ re-, iquircd the dancer to leap in the air,, {striking the heels together and crossing! the feet. The Queen was so impressed! that she made him one of her band of pensioners."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7318, 23 December 1910, Page 9
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