TRUTH ABOUT THE TANGO.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 187, 12 September 1914, Page 6

TRUTH ABOUT THE TANGO.

BEAUTIFUL DANCE SPOILT BY COUNTERFEIT. Mr Cecil 11. Taylor, of Leeds, the president or the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, speaking at the iaunual eongress held at the Holborn Restaurant denied ithat the society had killed the tango. "What the society has done," he said, "has been to kill a counterfeit tango, which overshadowed, if it did not actually eclipse, the twelve beautiful movements which constitute the real tango.'' British dance teachers assembled at the restaurant to give exhibitions of the new dances before the International Dancing Committee, with Mr C. D'Albert acting as chief judge. The five new dances were named as follows: La Rose The Boston Franchise. 1 The Boston Pause. La Russe. "D. V." All five were deplorably lacking hi taste, movement, and time. "La Eeve" was a bad blend of steps filched wholesale from the tango, the maxixe, and the one-step—a thoroughly intricate and ungraceful movement that would take months to learn, and prove a nuisance in any ballroom. The rest of the dances were void of all rhythm, swing, or timef were badly executed and created little impression. The performers did not even move with that gracefulness which generally distinguishes a master of the art. They minced, crept hopped, crawled, and squirmed, but they did not dance. The most favoured dances were the Boston Pause and the Boston Frane.aise.