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Video of | ==''Bowery Waltz''== | ||
Video of a dance-hall spiel, showing James T. Kelly and Dorothy Kent of ''Waite's Comedy Company'', in the famous "Bowery dance" from the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217289/ ''Bowery Waltz'' (1897)], produced by the [[Thomas Edison|Edison Manufacturing Company]]. | |||
{{#ev:youtube|IYkIBhNSVVs}} | |||
{{#ev:youtube| | ==''A Tough Dance''== | ||
Video of Kid Foley and Sailor Lil, two Bowery dancers, performing the so-called ''tough dance'',<ref>From the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376262/ ''A Tough Dance'' (1902)], produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company.</ref> a waltz from roughly the same time and similar to the ''dance-hall spiel''. The dance "not only permitted physical contact, it celebrated it. Indeed, the essence of tough dancing was its suggestion of sexual intercourse".<ref>Peiss K. 1986. 101 sq.</ref> | |||
{{#ev:youtube|DzqG6sXkcb0}} | |||
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Revision as of 14:22, 18 October 2009
Bowery Waltz
Video of a dance-hall spiel, showing James T. Kelly and Dorothy Kent of Waite's Comedy Company, in the famous "Bowery dance" from the film Bowery Waltz (1897), produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. {{#ev:youtube|IYkIBhNSVVs}}
A Tough Dance
Video of Kid Foley and Sailor Lil, two Bowery dancers, performing the so-called tough dance,[1] a waltz from roughly the same time and similar to the dance-hall spiel. The dance "not only permitted physical contact, it celebrated it. Indeed, the essence of tough dancing was its suggestion of sexual intercourse".[2] {{#ev:youtube|DzqG6sXkcb0}}
Notes
- ↑ From the film A Tough Dance (1902), produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company.
- ↑ Peiss K. 1986. 101 sq.