AND DAINTY FEET TRIP MERRILY

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 20

AND DAINTY FEET TRIP MERRILY

AT the Royal Albert Hall, London, on the final night of the "Star" Championships — the most important of the many TEnglish dancing competitions—there was a special competition for new dances arranged by English tv6£LCll6l*S - ■ ■ - The honor and- the £50 prize brought forth about fourteen new dances. Some of these were delightful. Cecil '* Taylor, the inventor of the Tile Trot and the Yale Blues,' gave an attractive rendering of his new dance, "The Toledo." He is a splendid showman and dancer, though the announcer quite truthfully introduced him as. "an Old gentleman of sixty-three partnered by a young girl of nineteen." The young lady m question was N a perfect sylph. Handsome Alan Rose, of the Eve Tynegate-Smith school, danced an exquisite Viennese Waltz, and Monsieur Pierre, -who is an incorrigible humorist, gave a most amusing dance (the Off Trot), which earned him enthusiastic applause. Bernard Stern, the brother of Sydney, "the "Star" champion, received the i ovation of the evening for his remarkably effective dance. ''The Tan Trot;" a kind of Tango to a speeially-ar- ' ranged Fox-trot tune, "Cerita," which has been recorded by Columbia. / Tlie prize went to Maxwell Stewart and Pat Sykes,- the world's champions, for their Skaters' Waltz—a perfect dance, perfectly rendered. What new dances shall we dande? Lest, after all this, the dancer, who would be- up-to-date above all things, ■ is m. some trepidation as to which or ' wliat he may be forced to undertake. ' the assurance is given that the number ' of new dances he will be called upon ■ to learn is nil. . . In. England the only dances generally i popular are the Quickstep. Slow Fox- - trot, Waltz, Blues and Tango. \ In New Zealand we have not the ; Tango, but the Tile Trot has been ? introduced, which is really a simple 1 and effective tango. As a matter of fact, the leaders of the profession m London are taking a nuinniiuiuniiiiiinniiuiiiiiuiiiiii'.iiiiuuiiiniiiiiiiiiiuiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiuiiiiiiii

most attractive for dancing. They are too expensive to become common and must be well cut, as they are-.in-tended as a fairly conspicuous note for the toilette. ' Dance enthusiasts will be interested to hear that a dance night with a jolly band playing contihuously is soon to be m full swing at the Majestic restaurant, Saturday, June 29, is the opening night, so Wellingtonians will soon have an opportunity of dancing under ideal conditions on a perfect glass floor. Just at present the floor is slow and wonderfully good for tango and blues, but with suitable preparation it will be "just right" for all the dances. The floor is illuminated from* beneath,- aiid charming color effects can be arranged by an electrician, who, ensconced" m a weird ante-chamber is out of sight. The, Tile Trot is making headway m Wellington, and when all the bands play "Chalita" and other good tangotype numbers, everybody will be danei ing this simple and attractive measure. Several of the teachers remark • that their pupils like the dance Immensely. The tango movement ' is evidently suitable for New Zealanders. ) Two Wellington teachers recently » gave- a" demonstration of the Sugar Step ahd. Quickstep at Fullers' vaudeville, which were evidently appreciated by . the large audiences which nightly • throng this popular place of entertain- [. ment. I was pleased to see that the correct • steps of the Quickstep were-featured, . as the Quickstep is a dance which all \ amateur dancers should know. The footwork of the demonstrators > was good also, though their style and . movement left something to be dei Sired, and although the demonstrations 1 were quite effective,, they would have i been more so had it been realised that ballroom dancing for the stage must , present a distinct "face." Going round and round the stage ! only invites attention, and crafty fors ward arrangement commands it. ' | •