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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]
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Notes
- ↑ From the film Tough Dance (1902), produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company.
- ↑ Peiss K. 1986. 101 sq.