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Балы английского рококо. Хорас Уолпол.
I have wished for you more particularly this week, and wanted you all at Sir Thomas Robinson’s and the birthday. <…> There were an hundred and ninety-seven people, yet no confusion ; he had taken off all the doors of his house, and, in short, distributed everybody quite to their well-being. The dancers were the …
ON THE DECAY OF THE DANCE
We dance nothing but the valse now in the suburbs, one set of lancers, perhaps, thrown in during the course of the evening.
UP-TO-DATE DANCING
People will waltz, even to polka, are-becoming a nation of waltzers, not of dancers. Programme of 18 or 24 dances three-fourths of them are waltzes, and quadrilles and the lancers
Новый вальс
For the information of my country cousins I may also add that the new valse is danced on the sole of the foot, and that it is impossible to valse smoothly if you dance on the tips of your toes. The new valse consists of four straight steps, with a turn between the filth and sixth. Of course you do not take the four straight steps in a line, but work round with them, but if you were to “step it out ” as dancing meters say, that is the form it would take. The toes are hardly turned out at all—in fact the modern valse is the exact opposite of the minuet, where pointing the feet is of the first importance.
Придворный бал
The first thing was a quadrille; The next thing was a galop; After that there was a waltz ; We then departed,
Учили Королеву рилам
“we had great fun teaching H.M*. to dance reels; she could not at all manage the figure of 8 ; she never got back to her place in time, and “ one, two, three, hop,” was altogether above her comprehension, she being too dignified ever to hop on one foot”
Пять вальсирующих принцев
but it was beautiful to see how for a long time, instead of scrambling, the live Princes took regular turns of being left out.
Замечательный новый танец
Last night we had very good funб dancing some wonderful new dances, going all about the house, promenading into dark rooms and odd corners of passages […]There was a funny figure when a lady and gentleman ran down the ladies’side holding a pocket-handkerchief by two corners, and the ladies were all obliged to duck under it, and afterwards up the gentlemen’s side, these being obliged to jump over it, and some of the leaps were strange enough.
Пробовала танцевать Целлариус-вальс
the Queen amused herself by trying the Cellarius Waltz and the Polka, with Countess Wratislaw
“Ноев ковчег” – фигура котильона
It was quite small and a “ married woman’s” ball, which meant that very few girls were asked. […] I can distinctly recollect one figure, a Noah’s Ark with pairs of all the animals that Noah had ever seen—and more besides! The man had to find the woman with the corresponding animal
Отзыв на музыку к новому танцу Триплет
The idea is certainly both original and good, and likely to be popular. T
The music of Triplet
The music of Mr. Webster, of Chester And Liverpool, in not particularly attractive [].Still Mr Webster, deserves support and prise for having hit for something novel in the way of dancing. The Polka is evidently intended for Belgravia and its thereabouts.
The Triplet. A new dance.
The Triplet. A new dance comprising of the Galop, Valser and Polka. Dedicated, by permission, to Lady Constance Grosvenor by Edgar Webster. Price 3 p.
Reminiscences of a waltzer
Shortly afterwards, the quick, or Russian waltz, was introduced by the Emperor of the Russia into this country; and till superseded in some measure, within the last four years, by the Prussian galloppe, and still fashionable Polish mazurka, it has maintained its ascendancy.
Запутанный менуэт
Пока старый учитель танцев объяснял мне сложный менуэт и повернулся ко мне спиной, чтобы получше показать как исполнять поклон,
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