#social dancing

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no more green it was peeving me

Flappers dancing while musicians perform during a Charleston dance contest at the Parody Club, 1926.

I'm trying to clear out my inbox of enquiries, and this is a question I believe I have answered previously in how to share (the best of) 19th century culture with a young boy.

Besides overhauling your wardrobe to have more outfits suited to a range of activities (day dress, evening dress, sporting dress, etc.), learning social dancing really can't be stressed enough. Polka, waltz, quadrilles; any dancing is better than none.

Liza Minelli and Christopher Walken 1963

Walken is not an actor who dabbles in dance but rather a dancer who fell into acting. He studied tap as a kid, toured in a musical, and even strutted his stuff alongside the teenage Liza Minnelli pictured here. “I think that if he had been around in the heyday of MGM, he would have been a big star of musicals on film,” said NBC’s “Peter Pan Live! executive producer Craig Zadan.

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