Thanks to Cin, Lavolta Press, and Katy Bishop for their prompt and helpful
messages. It should be fun working out some moments of these for Henry Ford and
President Warren G. Harding to do together—should be quite an effect, judging
from the videos!
Best wishes to all for a lovely Summer by the
Have a great time! Wish I was there, but I just did Costume College & it's
a one-or-the-other choice. BTW, you'll love Richard's new Skittles
Quadrilles. I really enjoyed being part of the dance team as he & Nick Enge
were working on those.
For the rest of you, if you ever need a full week of ama
They're absolutely real, but all my dance books are packed for moving.
For the 1920s they are old fashioned, 1890s is more like it. But Henry
Ford was into promoting old-fashioned dances.
Fran
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On 8/4/2016 10:10 AM, ruthan...@m
The Newport and the Ripple are not the same dance. Try Melvin Ballou
Gilbert's 1890s dance manual "Round Dancing" for instructions.
Fran
On 8/4/2016 10:27 AM, Katy Bishop wrote:
In vintage dance circles we've done the Newport and the Ripple--they are
real 1890s dance steps.
The NEwport (sor
Thanks for the shout out for Summer by the Sea Cin, only a few hours until
kick-off!
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Cin wrote:
> They're the same thing & used when waltz music gets absurdly fast at the
> turn of the previous century. This should get you started:
> http://www.libraryofdance.org
In vintage dance circles we've done the Newport and the Ripple--they are
real 1890s dance steps.
The NEwport (sort of a limping step:
NewportLeap back left, across LOD (gents) with a quarter
turn, Side right and close, Side right and Close, Leap forward right
(gents) with a quarte
They're the same thing & used when waltz music gets absurdly fast at the
turn of the previous century. This should get you started:
http://www.libraryofdance.org/dances/ Search for the dance name & there's
video.
Most of the serious dance historians are off at this Vintage Dance week as
of yest
Hello the list, after so long…
Doing a play (“Camping with Henry and Tom”) where the character Henry Ford
refers to two dances: The Ripple and The Newport. A quick Google doesn’t
yiield anything. Did the playwright just make up these dance names, or were
they real dances around 1920? I’d very