Boston (dance)
The Boston refers to various step dances, considered a slow Americanized version of the waltz[1][2] presumably named after where it originated.[1] It is completed in one measure with the weight kept on the same foot through two successive beats.[3] The "original" Boston is also known as the New York Boston or Boston Point.[4]
Variations of the Boston include:
- The Long Boston[5][6] also known as the Philadelphia Boston,[6] the Walking Boston[7] or the One Step Waltz.[6][7]
- The One-Step.[8]
- The Short Boston,.[5]
- The Dip Boston,[5] also known as Boston dip (steps of the dance were accentuated through a bend of the knees, with the center of gravity "dipping").[9]
- The Spanish Boston[10]
- The French Boston[1]
- The Herring Bone Boston[11]
- The English Boston or Three-Step Boston.[12]
- The Four-Step Boston or Four-Step Waltz.[13]
- The Five-Step Boston[2] or Five-Step Waltz.[14]
- The Seven-Step Boston.[15]
- The Double Boston or Cross Boston or Count of Luxembourg Staircase Valse[16]
- The Triple Boston[17]
- The Triple Double Boston[18]
- The Russian Boston[19]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Moore, Arabella E. (1900). The dance, ancient and modern / translated from the French. Philadelphia, Pa.: A. Moore. p. 26.
- ^ a b Swepstone, Eileen (1914). The tango, as standardized and taught by the representative dancing masters of the North American continent. Vancouver, B.C.: J. H. Welch. p. 14.
- ^ Kinney, Troy (1914). Social dancing of to-day, demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co. p. 21.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 90.
- ^ a b c Kinney, Troy (1914). Social dancing of to-day, demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co. p. 22.
- ^ a b c Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 83.
- ^ a b Walker, Caroline (1914). The modern dances, how to dance them: complete instructions for learning the tango, or one step, the Castle walk, the walking Boston, the hesitation waltz, the dream waltz, the Argentine tango (3rd ed.). Chicago: Saul Brothers. p. 35.
- ^ Swepstone, Eileen (1914). The tango, as standardized and taught by the representative dancing masters of the North American continent. Vancouver, B.C.: J. H. Welch. p. 15.
- ^ "Boston [Boston dip]". The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Oxford University Press. 2013-01-01. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195314281.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-531428-1.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 86.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 88.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 92.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 93.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 94.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 96.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 98.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 100.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 101.
- ^ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 103.
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