Word: one-step
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...Nowadays a dancing instructor must be versed in all kinds of dancing. Gone is the cotillion master whose repertoire was complete with the schottische, polka and waltz. To be up-to-date the schools must teach the ballet, the toe-dance, the classical and acrobatic dance, the fox trot, one-step, two-step and waltz and the tap dance. Leading exponent of the latter is Billy Newsome, vaudevillian, onetime teacher for Ned Wayburn, Broadway showgirl trainer. The tap dance is in vogue. "Society," says Tapper Newsome, "is taking it up. I've tutored the Vanderbilts and the Astors...
...taught them to be soldiers, he has taught them the gentlemanly graces of the square dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes it to be fit only for the stage. He admits that the waltz, one-step and fox trot constitute a trinity whence all variations come, and that the real arbiters of dance...
...instruction period begins with marching. Follows a rehearsal of the bow. Then comes the regular dancing, fox trot, waltz and one-step. The cadets do not dance together until they have "qualified." A "plebe" must take six weeks' compulsory dancing, must dance alone for five months before he can take his qualification tests. Result: many of them follow more skillfully than they lead. A girl who knows describes Dance Master Vizay's product as follows: "They are probably the stiffest, most boardlike group of dancing-men in the world...
...kills," Madame Pavlowa turned to the much-discussed spiritual effect of modern dancing. "It does not raise you as dancing should,--it kills you. I do it myself, one-step, two-step, and I see the people in these big hotels, like where I stay, the Plaza, is it? When you do it as they do, you do not go up, you go down, do you not feel that yourself? And the music this jazz! It is too noisy, too harsh. It might do for the grotesque, for clowns and acrobats. It has a rhythm...
Following is the order of dances: 1. Fox-trot, Palesteena 2. One-step, Sunshine 3. Fox-trot, Jane 4. Fox-trot, In the Devil's Garden 5. Waltz, Mello-Cello 6. One-step, Wild Rose 7. Fox-trot, The Dancing Band 8. Fox-trot, Make Believe 9. One-step, You Promised Me 10. Fox-trot, I Spoiled You Intermission. 11. Fox-trot, Absence 12. One-step, Oh! What a Tune 13. Fox-trot, Home Town Blues 14. Fox-trot, Look for the Silver Lining 15. Waltz, Wyoming 16. One-step, Arabia 17. Fox-trot, I Never Realized 18. Fox-trot...