New Type of Dance

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 10

New Type of Dance

WALLFLOWERS get a chance in ** the “threesome dance” being tried out in London ballrooms. By the new method, invented by Mr. Alex Moore of the British board of ballroom dancing, each man dances with two wortien at once.

Mr. Moore predicts it rvill become popular, especially in dunce halls where more girls thah men ai'e present .

A man takes two girls, it sirl is placed between tw6 men, a man between two girls. There are several variations of this delicate tritingle, but the “best and 'most Workable is obviously when a man leads two girls. The man—-or lead—holds two w,omen’s hands, and two women’s arms lie along his right arm, which clasps the back one. tike is his real partner. The middle one, as in a sandwich, jy jam. Het; steps are fixed for iter. Responsibility lies with the two outer ones.

The back, partner has to take wide steps. The man has to be careful when placing his lead among so many feet. The back girl sometimes gets a mouthful of the middle girl’s hair, but this, and the missed joys of sharing one partner, are lost in the thrill of keeping step with six' feet. The dancers experience a very real exhilaration. Whether they move in the slipping slide of the quick-stop, the languorous twist of the tango, or the wide sweep of the valsej- there is the curious thrill of doing this with tln-de figures and six feet.