Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign . Madlle. Carlotta Grissi and M. Perrot, in The Polka at Her MajestysTheatre.—No. i. [///. Lon. News, 27 April, 1844, p. The Polka.—No. 2. The Polka.—No. 3. 1844] THE POLKA. 239 But it soon became a Drawing-room dance, and it is edify-ing to know exactly how it was danced then. It was foundtoo elaborate, and the number of steps had to be reduced inquantity, and curtailed in quality. But this is the dance asgiven in the Illustrated London News of 11 May: THE DRAWING-ROOM POLKA. We are much gratified in being enabled to lay before ourreaders a
Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign . Madlle. Carlotta Grissi and M. Perrot, in The Polka at Her MajestysTheatre.—No. i. [///. Lon. News, 27 April, 1844, p. The Polka.—No. 2. The Polka.—No. 3. 1844] THE POLKA. 239 But it soon became a Drawing-room dance, and it is edify-ing to know exactly how it was danced then. It was foundtoo elaborate, and the number of steps had to be reduced inquantity, and curtailed in quality. But this is the dance asgiven in the Illustrated London News of 11 May: THE DRAWING-ROOM POLKA. We are much gratified in being enabled to lay before ourreaders an accurate description of the veritable, or Drawing-room Polka, as danced at Almacks, and at the halls of thenobility and gentry of this country. La Polka having appeared amongst us under so many dif-ferent guises, we determined to spare no pains to procure a truedescription of its danse; for which we are indebted to Rae, who has been fortunate enough to secure thedetails from M. Coralli, fils, the instructor of the young noble-men and gentry in Paris. La Polka, like its predecessors, the waltz and galop, isa danse a deux, couples following each other i
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