Excerpt from Dancing
This volume does not claim to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject of dancing. It is designed to furnish practical assistance to those who, lacking an opportunity for instruction in this direction, desire to qualify themselves for participation in this most delightful and popular recreation. To this end, obsolete dances have been omitted, as well as certain others, which, though generally taught in dancing academies and valuable enough in themselves, have yet failed to attain that popularity which insures a place on our social programmes. A knowledge of a very few dances is sufficient, at the present time, for all practical purposes. The majority of programmes are made of Waltzes and Two-steps, with an occasional set of Lancers or a Waltz Quadrille thrown in to vary the monotony. The Polka, Schottische, Galop, Yorke and Contra-Dance, though not strictly fashionable at present, are occasionally danced.
Beginners should master, first of all, the positions and steps described on pages 7 to 20, practicing them diligently until change from one to another can be easily and gracefully made.
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