Change in the Modern World

Anselm Lingnau

Message 58818 · 31 May 2010 15:55:26 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Oberdan Otto wrote:

> When we dance the Poussette, we are directly in front of out partner.
> However, when we Waltz, we are in a closed position in which the lady
> is slightly offset to the Man's right side, so, if she stepped
> forward with her right foot it would go between her partners feet,
> not onto his left foot.

Yes, but that would presumably be the genteel ballroom-style waltz, not the
hideous countryside threshing-floor type of push-me-pull-you that the founders
of the Society detested so much that they had to invent the modern poussette
to replace it. I presume that if Miss Milligan had seen you waltz she probably
would have written the movement into every other dance on purpose.

Anselm
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