BACK TO FOLK DANCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 21

BACK TO FOLK DANCES.

LADY BADEN-POWELL’S HOPE. (From Our Own Correspondent.' LONDON, March 19. Lady Badon-Powell has expressed the hope that young people of the future will dance the graceful dances of their ancestors on the village greens instead of the imported stuff from abroad which we pretend to call dancing. Sir Robert and Lady Baden-Powell have been for a six weeks’ cruise to West Africa. “ On the boat we started a little class in folk dancing just for fun,” said Lady Baden-Powell. “ Passengers were enormously thrilled by the old measures of Elizabeth’s time which have been handed down from generation to generation. Soon almost everyone on the boat was dancing-young and old. I was the only person who could teach, and luckily I had the music and gramophone records with me, ship’s pianist helped. “ The English Folk Dancing Society, of which I am a member, is making great strides. We hope that by degrees there will be more and more of this dancing on the village greens and in the halls of England. Massed dancing is to be done by Scouts at the jamboree in August.”