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Monday, August 22, 2022

"5% OF BALLROOM NAUGHTINESS IS VULGARITY"

LONG SKIRTS DISCOURAGE KICKING & ERRATIC MOVEMENTS OF THE JAZZ STEP

New York City (JFK+50) On August 22, 1922, the Evening Star reports Ned Gaynor of Culver Military Academy* "welcomes back the long skirt."

Major Gaynor is a leader of the American National Association of Masters of Dancing** meeting here in New York.  He maintains "the long skirt discourages kicking and the erratic movements of the jazz step."

The Major said...

"Ninety-five percent of ballroom naughtiness is due to ignorance (while) the other five percent is vulgarity."

*Culver Military Academy is a private school located in Culver, Indiana & founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver.  Offering grades 9-12, CMA became co-educational in 1971.

**ANAMD was founded in 1884 in Boston, MA & jointed with the International Masters of Dancing in 1926 to form the Dancing Masters of America.  

DMA Teachers Training School &/or National Conventions have been in continuous operation since 1884 (except during WWII & Covid-19 pandemic).

SOURCES

"Dance Masters of America, History," www.dmanational.org/

"Long Skirt Blow To Jazz Dancing And High Kicker," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 22, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 
 
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