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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of Modern dancing GV 1746 .C35 1914 MODERN DANCING By Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of Modern dancing W. Stanley Davis. Of thieves there are a great variety, Found even in the best society; Some steal our hearts with charming looks While others don't return our books. MAY 8 -...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of Modern dancing MODERN DANCING
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of Modern dancing MRS. VERNON CASTLE
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of Modern dancing MODERN DANCING BY MR. and MRS. VERNON CASTLE WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND MOVING PICTURES OF THE NEWEST DANCES FOR WHICH THE AUTHORS POSED INTRODUCTION BY Elisabeth Marbury SPECIAL EDITION THE...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of Modern dancing H1746 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 5 SEP 08 1988 COPY— EXCHANGE & GIFT DIVISION COPYRIGHT. 1914, BY HARPER & BROTHERS 59-108372
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of Modern dancing 24no89 THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE DANCED, TO THOSE WHO DO DANCE. TO THOSE WHO MAY DANCE, AND TO THE PATRONESSES OF CASTLE HOUSE PATRONESSES MRS. STUYVESANT...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of Modern dancing CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE Foreword 17 Introduction 19 I. Dancing as an Art 31 II. The Tango of To-day 37 III. The One Step—The Castle Walk—The Eight Step—The Spin—The Step Out—The More Difficult...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of Modern dancing ILLUSTRATIONS Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle Frontispiece Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle Page 30 The Tango of To-day " 36 The Castle Walk—The Correct Way to Start " 42 The Castle Walk—...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of Modern dancing Innovation—Media Luna—Moving Pictures 100 Tango—El Charron—Moving Pictures " 100 Innovation—Just Before the Scissors Step " 103 Scissors in the Innovation " 105 The Single Step, or Les À-Côte " 106 The Maxixe:...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of Modern dancing ACKNOWLEDGMENT Acknowledgment is made to Otis F. Wood, New York City, for assistance in the preparation of this book. The moving pictures reproduced in this book to illustrate the various dances were...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of Modern dancing FOREWORD WE feel that this book will serve a double purpose. In the first place, it aims to explain in a clear and simple manner the fundamentals of modern dancing. In the...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of Modern dancing 19 MODERN DANCING INTRODUCTION IN a recent address by the poet Jean Richepin before the members of the French Academy the evolution of modern dances was convincingly traced from the tombs of...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of Modern dancing 20 of modern dancing. In Europe as well as in America it has been universally conceded that as teachers they are unequaled. Refinement is the keynote of their method; under their direction...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of Modern dancing 21 most attractive kind of folk-dancing. Both Mr. and Mrs. Castle have made a specialty of the Maxixe as an exquisite expression of joyousness and of youthful spontaneity. The Half and Half...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of Modern dancing 22 The attempt to start a moral campaign against all modem dancing is destructive rather than constructive, unless we offer something better in its place, unless we go forward to newer dances—that...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of Modern dancing 23 darkness of a sensational moving-picture show or in following with feverish interest the suggestive sex-problem dramas. Nor from my point of view is there as much harm in dancing as in...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of Modern dancing 24 should open properly conducted dancing-halls for young people where they can dance to good music under refined supervision. Give them clean fun to offset the hard work of the day. Give...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of Modern dancing 25 and modestly. I may be a very gullible person, but I have talked to hundreds of girls about their dancing, and they have put into my hand the golden key to...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of Modern dancing 26 sign “Forbidden fruit” upon what otherwise would arouse no prurient curiosity. We are told that the new dances encourage too much freedom, and, while “all right if properly danced,” are all...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of Modern dancing 27 they are mistaken in their choice of the steps, that “society” does not do those dances. They hear hundreds of men and women denouncing the scandalous modern dances, and in their...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of Modern dancing 28 I am delighted to find that the public schools are taking up dancing, and I believe that if every woman's club would give a free dance for the young people of...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of Modern dancing establish once and for all a standard of modern dancing which will demonstrate that These dances can be made graceful, artistic, charming, and, above all, refined . Elisabeth Marbury . NEW YORK...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of Modern dancing MR. AND MRS. VERNON CASTLE MR. AND MRS. VERNON CASTLE
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of Modern dancing 31 I. DANCING AS AN ART WE all know that the art of dancing is very old. We read of it in ancient history, and it is often mentioned in the Bible,...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of Modern dancing 32 Years ago dances were divided into two groups, the “Round” and the “Square.” The latter were usually danced by a number of couples arranged in the form of a square, and...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of Modern dancing 33 grace and refinement; and impartial critics who have been called upon to pronounce judgment upon them have ended by saying that there is nothing objectionable in any of them. They are,...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 28 of Modern dancing “Dancing, including gymnastic dancing and folk dancing, under proper conditions and limitations, is one of the best exercises for persons of all ages. It is especially adapted to the temperament, physique, and...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 29 of Modern dancing THE TANGO OF TO-DAY
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 30 of Modern dancing THE TANGO OF TO-DAY
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 31 of Modern dancing II THE TANGO OF TO-DAY ALMOST any one will admit that dancing is an art, but in truth it is really all arts in one; it is music incarnate, it is the...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 32 of Modern dancing 38 strongly in the direction of the slow and graceful dances of which the Minuet was the first. The Waltz, the Polka, the Two Step, and finally the Turkey Trot, ran the...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 33 of Modern dancing 39 certain stateliness, a dignity of movement that has charm rather than gymnastic skill behind it. The charming dips and turns, the long, slow steps, and the various artistic measures of our...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 34 of Modern dancing 40 are easier in some respects and really prettier than rapid ones. The slower the steps, the more intricate the measures, and the more subtly dignified the tempo of the music, the...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 35 of Modern dancing will play its part; a sublimated form of the Tango, I admit, but still the Tango. Also the One Step and Castle Walk, and the Hesitation Waltz, and all the dances of...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 36 of Modern dancing THE CASTLE WALK The correct way to start the Castle Walk.
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 37 of Modern dancing 43 III THE ONE STEP—THE CASTLE WALK—THE EIGHT STEP—THE SPIN—THE STEP OUT—THE MORE DIFFICULT STEP OUT—THE ONE STEP CORTEZ—THE OUTER EDGE—ZIG ZAG—THE POLKA SKIP—THE WIND-UP UP to the present moment by far...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 38 of Modern dancing 44 hand in the gentleman's left. The elbows should be slightly bent, not held out stiffly, like the bowsprit of a boat, as this not only looks awkward, but is uncomfortable and...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 39 of Modern dancing THE CASTLE WALK
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 40 of Modern dancing 47 it. There are very many different figures, but they are in this same strict tempo. It is simply one step—hence its name. I am going to try to explain the different...
- Contributor: World Syndicate Co. - Castle, Vernon - Castle, Irene
- Date: 1914-01-01