item: #1 of 7 id: 10108 author: Anonymous title: A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes Are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe with Them (1581) date: None words: 6812 flesch: 60 summary: But now if he reply, and say hee careth not or regardeth not, what other men think, seyng hee hath no maner of euil or naughty meaninge in himselfe. Adde also that if any do deeply & seasonably consider this matter, I hope he shal not finde it so barren and of little edification, that it ought to be dispised or troden under foote: for many men of quality (yea euen in the company of notable personages) of name and authority, make no conscience to demaunde and aske whether it be yll done to daunce, demaunding also a formall or playne parcell and text of Scripture, by which it may appeare that daunses be prohibited and forbidden, otherwise they think not that they do euill in daunsing. keywords: affection; answeare; bee; bene; betweene; beyng; christians; commeth; custome; daunce; daunses; daunsing; difference; dissolute; doth; euen; euil; filthines; flesh; fynd; gestures; geue; god; good; great; hath; haue; hee; holy; honesty; indeede; indifferent; infected; iudge; like; little; lord; loue; lust; man; manner; matter; men; money; owne; pagans; people; place; plaine; playes; present; proper; question; scripture; selfe; shee; sidenote; themselues; ther; thinges; thinke; thou; true; wee; whoredome; wicked; women; yea cache: 10108.txt plain text: 10108.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 14183 author: Penn, W. E. title: There is No Harm in Dancing date: None words: 12419 flesch: 74 summary: : young men and young women, together with young married people, with an occasional _sear and yellow leaf repainted_. If the style of dress often, yea, nearly always, seen at the _fashionable_ balls and dancing parties is wholly without any evil design--innocently following a fashion--and if those who thus dress are really ignorant of the effect it has upon the opposite sex, it is high time their eyes were being opened. keywords: able; age; author; ball; best; book; boys; brother; business; cause; children; christ; christian; church; close; congregation; crimes; dance; dancing; daughters; day; door; drinking; duty; earth; evil; eyes; fathers; following; fruit; girls; god; good; graceful; great; guilty; harm; head; heart; home; honest; hops; hundreds; husbands; influence; interest; jesus; known; life; like; little; love; major; man; manner; married; meeting; men; morning; mothers; night; o'clock; old; parents; parties; pastor; penn; people; physical; places; poor; prayer; road; room; saloon; services; shame; sins; sisters; things; thousands; time; trees; true; truth; way; whiskey; wife; wives; women; work; world; wraps; writer; years; young; young men cache: 14183.txt plain text: 14183.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 17289 author: Anonymous title: The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. date: None words: 9736 flesch: 72 summary: In our own day musical themes are marked by forms originally dance times, as waltz time, gavotte time, minuet time, etc. To this succeeded many works of Lulli, to whom is attributed the increased speed in dance music and dancing, that of the Court ballets having been slow and stately. keywords: 15th; 16th; 18th; a.d; action; amusement; antique; art; attitude; b.c; ballet; british; castanets; celebrated; century; certain; chamber; chapter; character; chorus; classic; comic; common; corneto; countries; court; cymbals; cyprus; dance; dancers; dancing; day; double; doubt; drawing; duvernay; early; egyptian; ellsler; end; england; english; etruria; etruscan; examples; excellent; fanny; fig; figs; figures; flute; fourteenth; france; garden; good; great; greek; grotta; hand; henry; history; honour; iii; illustration; important; influence; italian; italy; kind; left; like; little; london; louis; men; military; mimetic; mlle; modern; museum; music; origin; painting; paris; performances; performers; period; pipes; poetry; position; public; reader; religious; ritual; roman; rome; singing; social; stately; style; subject; taglioni; tambour; theatre; time; tomb; tumblers; tumbling; vase; wilkinson; work cache: 17289.txt plain text: 17289.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 18759 author: Faulkner, Thomas A. title: From the Ball-Room to Hell date: None words: 12287 flesch: 78 summary: I have prayed God to spare my life that I might go and warn young girls against that which has made such a sad wreck of my once pure and happy life, for, when I entered dancing school, I was as innocent as a child and free from sin and sorrow, but under its influence and in its association I lost my purity, my innocence, my _all_, but I know that God has forgiven the sin which is sending me to my early grave, where I shall soon be forgotten by all earthly friends. Because they are graduates of dancing schools. keywords: able; academy; angeles; arm; ball; beautiful; beauty; best; better; book; brothel; christian; church; close; dance; dancing; dancing school; daughter; day; dear; drink; embrace; evening; evil; example; eyes; face; fact; fair; father; friends; girls; god; good; great; greater; hand; happy; harm; health; heart; hell; home; innocent; life; little; long; love; lower; man; master; members; men; months; mother; nature; night; parents; parlor; pastor; people; perfect; place; pleasure; position; public; pure; read; respectable; rev; room; ruin; saloon; scene; school; select; self; sin; social; society; things; thought; time; true; use; vile; virtue; waltz; wife; woman; work; world; young cache: 18759.txt plain text: 18759.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 27367 author: Wayburn, Ned title: The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession date: None words: 112413 flesch: 70 summary: [Illustration: NED WAYBURN] THE ART OF STAGE DANCING _ [Illustration] Copyright, 1925, by NED WAYBURN STUDIOS OF STAGE DANCING, INC. Made in U.S.A. GREETINGS! keywords: ability; able; accent; accomplished; account; acrobatic; acrobatic dancing; action; actor; actress; acts; actual; additional; advanced; advice; agreement; air; amateur; american; americanized; appeal; appearance; applause; arbitration; arms; art; artist; artistic; association; atmosphere; attention; audience; baggage; ballet; ballet dancing; beautiful; beauty; beginners; beginning; bend; benefit; best; better; big; black; blue; board; bodies; body; book; box; bread; breakfast; broadway; business; business manager; calls; career; careful; case; cast; certain; chapter; character; charge; chicago; chief; children; chorus; chorus equity; circle; cities; city; claim; class; classes; clear; close; closing; clothes; coffee; cold; color; comedies; comedy; comedy dancing; companies; company; company manager; compensation; competent; complete; concerned; conditions; confidence; consent; consideration; continuous; contract; control; correct; costumes; count; country; courses; 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props; public; publicity; pupils; purpose; raise; reading; ready; real; reason; reasonable; red; regular; regulations; rehearsals; rehearse; responsible; rest; result; reverse; revue; rhythm; right; right foot; room; rouge; routines; rules; run; said; salaries; salary; saturday; scenery; school; second; self; semi; sense; services; set; shoes; short; showmanship; sign; simple; size; small; social; society; soft; sole; solo; song; special; specialty; spectacular; stage; stage career; stage dancer; stage dancing; stage director; stage makeup; stage manager; stage work; stand; standard; standing; star; step; step dancing; step right; stick; story; straight; street; strength; stretching; strikes; strong; students; studios; study; subject; success; successful; sufficient; sugar; sum; sunday; sure; swing; talent; tap; taps; technique; tempo; termination; terms; theatre; theatrical; thing; time; today; toe; toe dancing; toes; touch; tour; training; transportation; travel; tricks; true; tryout; turn; type; upper; use; usual; valuable; value; vaudeville; violation; walk; wall; watch; wayburn; wayburn studios; ways; wear; week; weekly; weight; white; wide; wigs; wise; wish; women; words; work; working; world; worth; years; york; york city; young; yrs cache: 27367.txt plain text: 27367.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 36667 author: Mesick, John F. title: A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing date: None words: 7287 flesch: 63 summary: The Scripture sense of the term, _world_, is that collection of idolaters, unbelievers, and wicked men who constitute the great bulk of the inhabitants of our globe; in short all persons who do not belong to the Kingdom of God. _ He encourages all who live without hope and without God in the world to persevere in their neglect of religion, and to go on securely in the entire round of fashionable amusements. keywords: amusement; art; attention; ball; character; children; christ; christian; church; circle; circumstances; conformity; dance; dancing; day; death; destruction; divine; duty; esteem; eternal; evils; example; facts; faith; fashionable; gay; god; good; gospel; grace; great; harrisburg; health; heaven; higher; holy; hope; hour; inconsistent; jesus; john; kind; kingdom; levity; life; light; look; love; man; means; members; minds; modern; moral; natural; open; people; persons; pleasure; practice; prayer; present; professor; purity; religion; religious; room; sabbath; salvation; seat; sin; sinners; society; souls; spirit; text; things; time; true; unconverted; vain; world; worldly; worship cache: 36667.txt plain text: 36667.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 45299 author: Terry, Ellen title: The Russian Ballet date: None words: 5555 flesch: 68 summary: If the fashion in Russian ballet should age elsewhere I feel sure it will not in England, the last country to adopt it. In France and Italy they had ballets of their own. keywords: appearance; art; bakst; ballet; beautiful; beauty; best; better; body; bolm; carnaval; children; classical; colman; dance; dancers; dancing; dream; english; enthusiasm; feet; genius; good; greek; igor; illustration; karsavina; life; like; little; love; male; miss; movements; music; narcisse; nation; new; nijinsky; pamela; pictures; pleasure; poems; prince; rhythm; rose; russian; russian ballet; scheherazade; sense; smith; spectre; spirit; stage; steps; style; sylphides; tamar; things; time; white; word; years; young; youth cache: 45299.txt plain text: 45299.txt