All dance is filthy, anyway. Well, most. And should be outlawed.
Actually, dancing is often a civilized [or maybe just thinly disguised]
stylizing of the mating ritual.
And just as often it serves a social community purpose.
At least it's not as filthy as hocketing!
Frank Fitzpatrick
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From: Daniel Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. "Volti" on baroque manuscripts
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It all depends upon how one defines "in good fun". The use of social
dancing, even the most outwardly chaste in appearance, as a way to
either lead to or sublimate a sexual encounter has a long history and
is
nearly universal in practice.
DJW
John Howell wrote:
Same root as the Elizabethan dance, the Volta or Lavolta, a fast
galliard during which the gentleman grabs the lady by the bottom of
her busk and twirls her around. (Looks almost pornographic in the
paintings, but it was all in good fun, and the busks were so stiffened
with whalebone stays that he couldn't have gotten away with anything
anyhow!!!)
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