Dancing made easy

Image 1 of Dancing made easy DANCING MADE EASY

Contributor: Coll, Charles J. - E. J. Clode
Date: 1922

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Date: 1922

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Date: 1922

Image 5 of Dancing made easy DANCING MADE EASY BY CHARLES J. COLL AND GABRIELLE ROSIERE New and Revised Edition NEW YORK EDWARD J. CLODE

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Date: 1922

Image 6 of Dancing made easy Prof. CHARLES J. COLL

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Date: 1922

Image 7 of Dancing made easy FOREWORD

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Date: 1922

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Date: 1922

Image 9 of Dancing made easy 11 FOREWORD It is not the purpose of this book to project any novel system of teaching dancing or to advocate any unique dances. Rather it is a painstaking effort to reduce...

Contributor: Coll, Charles J. - E. J. Clode
Date: 1922

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Date: 1922

Image 11 of Dancing made easy 13 of the veriest rudiments of dancing, and of music too, and at the risk of being redundant will be overprecise in explanations. Do you know what “tempo” means, or to “glide”?...

Contributor: Coll, Charles J. - E. J. Clode
Date: 1922

Image 12 of Dancing made easy 12 of steps, such tanglefoot would seem to daunt the most venturesome of beginners. Through an experience of thirty years and more in teaching dancing, I have steadily held that to learn...

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Date: 1922

Image 13 of Dancing made easy 13 of the veriest rudiments of dancing, and of music too, and at the risk of being redundant will be overprecise in explanations. Do you know what “tempo” means, or to “glide”?...

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Date: 1922

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Image 15 of Dancing made easy CONTENTS PAGE Introductory 19 The Story of Dancing 31 The Waltz 55 Novelties, Marches, Etc 65 The Fox Trot 73 The One Step 87 Ramble 90 The Waltz 97 The Paul Jones...

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Date: 1922

Image 16 of Dancing made easy 6. The Baby-doll 1 couple leading, 3 dancing. 7. The Candle 1 couple leading. 8. Rounds of Three 1 couple leading, 3 dancing. 9. The Four-in-Hand 1 couple leading, 5 dancing. 10....

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Date: 1922

Image 17 of Dancing made easy INTRODUCTORY

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Image 19 of Dancing made easy 19 Dancing Made Easy CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY You must play. It has been said, and truly, that the play of childhood is the most serious thing in the world. It is just...

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Date: 1922

Image 20 of Dancing made easy 20 Primarily we moderns dance to enjoy, but we are offered meanwhile further material aids. No better exercise, nor one that has such direct appeal to the feminine temperament and physique, and...

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Date: 1922

Image 21 of Dancing made easy 21 is a peerless tonic, a promotion of health, a router of Melancholia and its attendant ills. The physician further recommends it as a beauty treatment, since to his keen eyes beauty...

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Date: 1922

Image 22 of Dancing made easy 22 A belief is unfortunately too prevalent that gracefulness is wholly due to nature, but the idea is as far from the truth as that expression in music is wholly natural. In...

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Date: 1922

Image 23 of Dancing made easy 23 dancing as an exercise, the great delight it affords as a recreation, its refining influence on manners, are becoming each year more fully recognized. Parents should be anxious to give young...

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Date: 1922

Image 24 of Dancing made easy 24 a full portion of happiness whenever it offers as moderate and as natural an impulse as dancing. Dancing is a form of expression, and an exquisite one, and is quite apart...

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Date: 1922

Image 25 of Dancing made easy 25 well; dancing had fallen upon decadent days, and the moderate saw what had been their recreation swept away and a dissipation take its place. Followed an orgy of perversion, designedly so...

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Date: 1922

Image 26 of Dancing made easy 26 through this acrobatic bedlam came the Tango, the Hesitation, and other good influences to chasten and redeem. And this process of reform formulated and established what we accept as the Modern...

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Date: 1922

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Image 29 of Dancing made easy THE STORY OF DANCING

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Image 31 of Dancing made easy 31 CHAPTER II THE STORY OF DANCING WHEN When that promised and happy moment comes, when you put your best foot forward to the measures of the dance, you will be doing...

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Date: 1922

Image 32 of Dancing made easy 32 It is not a far cry to say that the Greeks have dictated, with almost supreme authority, the elements of logic and a large measure of the thought-matter of every subsequent...

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Date: 1922

Image 33 of Dancing made easy 33 he felt, that he has idealized and made sacred to himself and to us. It is his religion, whose inner concept flashes forth with unsurpassed form in everything he has left...

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Date: 1922

Image 34 of Dancing made easy 34 The Greek gymnasia, of which there were many, advocated the scientific exertions of the body, and these exertions were rarely, if ever, artificial. The dance was in great favor with them,...

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Date: 1922

Image 35 of Dancing made easy 35 were a cheerful people, whose sense of dignity was not disturbed with their dancing, as it was, for example, in the case of the Romans and Orientals, who bade their hired...

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Date: 1922

Image 36 of Dancing made easy 36 notes,—some four in number,—a rather feeble vehicle it seems for those who applied the principle of voluntary rhythmic motion. As far as we may go into antiquity, every dance, whether belonging...

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Date: 1922

Image 37 of Dancing made easy 37 —each locality insisting on interpreting itself. But they all have a patent characteristic, that is the exacting nature of the performance and the absolute seriousness with which they go about their...

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Date: 1922

Image 38 of Dancing made easy 38 The Renaissance saw the revival of dancing as an art, as it beheld the awakening of so many other arts. Catherine de' Medic, bringing the dance from Italy, introduced it in...

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Date: 1922

Image 39 of Dancing made easy 39 for the music alone—were essentially musicales. And to this custom we owe the musical suites of Bach, Handel, and Corelli. Our extremely elaborate Cotillion is merely a development of the antique...

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Date: 1922

Image 40 of Dancing made easy 40 It is difficult to determine the accuracy of its origin; it is variously claimed as of French, Italian, and Bavarian source; but since it is unquestionably a development of the French...

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Date: 1922

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