It may soon be possible to buy the score of the latest jazz, fox trot, or classical dance step at the music dealers, just as one now buys the musical score, Miss Margaret Morris, the famous dancer, whose school at Chelsea is doing so much for dancing and the allied arts, told Daily News" reporter that she had invented a scheme of dancing notation, by means of which it is possible to write down dances in the same way as we now write down music.
"The idea came to me," said Miss Morris, "when I tried to describe new dance steps. There are only a certain number of terms, such as chassée,' waltz, step,' etc., which are quite inadequate. Bo I devised a system of scoring dances so that they can be written down and read.
"T hope the day will come," she concluded, when it will be possible to buy the score of a ballet, just as we now buy the score of a concerto. People will then begin to understand something about
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