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Charles Durang describes the Tango, “originally a South American dance,” in 1856
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The Castles

“The Castle Walk” – Sheet Music and Recording

Castle Gavotte and Foxtrot Scrapbook Clippings

The Castles Demonstrate the Castle Walk for the Washington Times on March 1, 1915

The Castles Demonstrate the Hesitation Waltz for the Washington Times on February 22, 1915

The Castles Demonstrate the Tango for the Washington Times on February 15, 1915

Rowley Downs

Odgers T. Gurnee Teaches the Tango, Including the Corde/Cortez, Several Dips, Sweeps, Flirtation, Innovation Tango and “Three in One”

Mr. and Mrs. Rowley Downs, Vernon and Irene Castle, Demonstrate Maxixe Positions

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Boston to the El Paso Herald

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Russian Gavotte to the El Paso Herald – Lesson 3

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Russian Gavotte to the El Paso Herald – Lesson 2

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Russian Gavotte to the El Paso Herald – Lesson 1

Texas Tommy

King Chanticleer music for the Texas Tommy

Images of the Texas Tommy

1911 Sheet Music describes the “Texas Tommy Swing,” with a reference to the “Buck and Wing”

The Day Book Discusses the Texas Tommy February 7, 1912: “It’s the Busiest Little Dance Ever Set to Music”

Original 1913-1914 Texas Tommy Footage from the San Francisco Barbary Coast

Mazurka

Les Russes: a Set of Mazurkas and a Set of Polkas by Coote and Clover

Jullien’s Original Mazurka, or the Cellarius Valse, and a description of “The Celebrated Mazurka of Spa”

Gavotte

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Russian Gavotte to the El Paso Herald – Lesson 3

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Russian Gavotte to the El Paso Herald – Lesson 2

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Russian Gavotte to the El Paso Herald – Lesson 1

Castle Gavotte and Foxtrot Scrapbook Clippings

Images of the Castles Dancing the Gavotte, 1912

Maurice and Florence Walton

Florence Walton and Maurice Discuss the Maxixe with The Evening World

The Maurice Walk by Biese and Klickmann

Maurice, Florence Walton, and the Legitimacy of the Tango

Maurice describes “The Maurice Glide” to The El Paso Herald, April 6, 1912

Alice Martin

Alice Martin’s Original Hesitation Waltz

The Aeroplane Waltz: Joan Sawyer’s New Dance Creation

The Tango

La Bella Argentina Tango, by Carlos Roberto – Sheet Music and Dance Description

Andrea Meazza And Constance Seymour Demonstrate “The Real Argentine Tango” in 1924

1927 Tango and Waltz Outtakes on the S.S. France

Charles Durang describes the Tango, “originally a South American dance,” in 1856

“Here’s the Argentine Tango” – Fox Movietone News Story about Argentine Tango in New York, 1928

Hesitation Waltz

Alice Martin’s Original Hesitation Waltz

The Castles Demonstrate the Hesitation Waltz for the Washington Times on February 22, 1915

Echoes from the Snowball Club – a Ragtime Waltz

Images of the Hesitation Waltz, with Description of Basic Step by the Castles

Rumba

Outtakes of Raúl and Eva Reyes Dancing the Rumba in 1934

George Raft and Carole Lombard Dance the Rumba in 1935

Boston Waltz

Anna Pavlowa Describes the Boston to the El Paso Herald

Emma Meissner and Rosa Grünberg dance the “Boston” in 1909 Sweden

Joan Sawyer

Joan Sawyer describes the “Sawyer Maxixe” to the Omaha Sunday Bee, 1914

Joan Sawyer Describes the Three in One to the Omaha Daily Bee

The Aeroplane Waltz: Joan Sawyer’s New Dance Creation

Joan Sawyer Discusses the “Congo Trot” with the El Paso Herald, 1914

Joan Sawyer’s Persian Garden Tango

Cellarius

Les Russes: a Set of Mazurkas and a Set of Polkas by Coote and Clover

Cellarius’s Redowa – Valse Bohemenne

Jullien’s Original Mazurka, or the Cellarius Valse, and a description of “The Celebrated Mazurka of Spa”

The Maxixe

Joan Sawyer describes the “Sawyer Maxixe” to the Omaha Sunday Bee, 1914

Florence Walton and Maurice Discuss the Maxixe with The Evening World

Mr. and Mrs. Rowley Downs, Vernon and Irene Castle, Demonstrate Maxixe Positions

Original Footage of the Castles Dancing the Maxixe

The Maxixe as described by the Castles in Modern Dancing

Novelties and Fads

Santos Casani and Jose Lennard dance the Sugar Step in 1928

Joan Sawyer Discusses the “Congo Trot” with the El Paso Herald, 1914

The San Francisco Call examines “The Gayety,” August 21, 1910

The Pericon, as demonstrated by Maurice and Florence Walton in 1914

The Frisco as Described by Vernon Castle; “Teaching Dancing at $1 a Minute.”

Aeroplane Waltz

The Aeroplane Waltz: Joan Sawyer’s New Dance Creation

Mamie Appler’s Aeroplane Waltz, with description by Alice Martin

Original Footage of the Aeroplane Waltz circa 1914

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