This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...skill on the part of a pupil to perform all the foregoing exercises perfectly, and a pupil who could do so would be capable of executing almost any dance. But there is no reason why any one with a taste for dancing, combined of course with a certain degree of physical aptitude, who attentively studies the rules here ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...skill on the part of a pupil to perform all the foregoing exercises perfectly, and a pupil who could do so would be capable of executing almost any dance. But there is no reason why any one with a taste for dancing, combined of course with a certain degree of physical aptitude, who attentively studies the rules here laid down, and practises the exercises diligently, should not in course of time arrive at the highest degree of proficiency in really graceful dancing. And be it remembered that really graceful dancing does not necessarily involve ability to kick the legs abnormally high, walk as human beings were never intended to walk, and perform other gymnastic and contortional feats, which it would be more appropriate to class under the head of the marvellous than the beautiful.1 CHAPTER IX ORNAMENTAL AND SOLO DANCES. The reader, who has conscientiously studied and profited by the rules and advice already given, and who has carefully been through, and learnt to execute correctly, the various steps and movements described, may, if his or her taste incline thereto, at once proceed to take lessons in artistic dances, or those wherein the agility or grace displayed by the performers is calculated to gratify the eyes of beholders. Whatever personal pleasure may be derived from solo dancing, it must necessarily be of a nature to which no moral objection can consistently be raised--of course, provided the movements belonging to the dance be decorous. With the moral objections of those good people who are pleased to regard all earthly enjoyment as sinful, I have neither space nor inclination to concern myself; but I could not help remarking when reading a pleasant little tirade, recently written against dancing, entitled A Time to Dance, how the reverend author adm...
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