Keeping cool during the summer! dance season is not simply a matter of the clothes you wear and itoderation in the dance programme, but far more of economy of movement. This economy is an. expert matter, just as itis in tennis or cricket, and depends on a perfect adaptation of means to ends. It can perhaps best be illustrated in the waltz, the most difficult because the most emphatic cally timed of our dances. An expert will swing smoothly into its Thythmic "threes" with apparently effort at all, but in reality his body And limbs are perfectly disciplined to the measure, and' in the forward and turning movements he collects a certain amount of progressive power while he is dispersing, Ht. Some of it comes from his part ner and some of it is a falling of his own weight along the lines of the dance: all he does is to govern jand balance it- But he keeps cool while the less skilled dancers are becoming tired and overheated.
'The slower music interspersed between straight fox-trots is a very' timely innovation. It la, of course, accidental, and many dancers find themselves confronted with baffine problems of balance. This suggests might be done in the way of special steps for hot-weather dancing, and in particular by way fof compelling the dance orchestras }to moderate the beat and lengthen the intervals between dances, These remarks apply only te the town dance of some formal pretensions. One the river, or in country hotels and houses, where flannels and tennis frocks are not frowned upon, the full programme can be kept up, but the band, even here, should have some special regard for the limitations of the summer sasan. Few of us are experts, and the average holiday-maker's day has already taken its toll in strenuous pleasure—"Banchester Guardian."
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