Categories: just-life
Date: 18 October 2006 14:29:22
Last night I was chatting to my Southern Belle about my forthcoming trip to the Confederacy. It seems that apart from a spot of hiking and lemonade on the veranda I am going to be taught how to waltz.
What makes this funny is than in the waltz, it is the man that leads, and anyone who knows me knows I have this thing about dancing.... I don't like it. But I've decided that it can;t be that bad, surely.....???
This is a news report from The Times in July 1816 when the waltz was first introduced at court in England;
We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.
so that sounds like fun. I've just been flicking through some steps on the internet and it seems that with a bit of practice it shouldn't be too hard. Obviously I shall have to watch Strictly Come Dancing however the guys have already waltzed and I don't know if the women will do or not!!!
And I shall have to remember that "gapping" is deemed to be a cardinal sin, at least in InternationalCompetitive Dancing.