Category: Controversies
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Traditional Dance Deportment
I have finished reading Elizabeth Casciani’s Oh, How We Danced: The History of Ballroom Dancing in Scotland and must take it back to the library today. First, however, I would […]
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Social graces
I have a bad cold and so was unable to dance this week. And the cold got me because of a pipe that blew up in the bathroom floor, necessitating […]
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A conversation about dance
I was on my phone because my silly computer wouldn’t connect me to the requisite interviewing software, and I burst into tears of frustration right beforehand. There are currently two […]
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Benedict XV & American Catholic charity balls
There is a cheat sheet floating about the internet with a list of pronouncements against dancing attributed to various saints and Councils. These quotes, translations or paraphrases are taken out […]
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Not as in wantonness
As I have a look online (and write emails to professors), I come across anecdotes about third and fourth century bishops (Methodius of Olympus, Epiphanies of Salamis, Gregory Theumaturgus, St. […]
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The Queen of Ballroom Dances
The waltz as it is taught at Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party was codified in England in 1927. The English Waltz reached that form after a campaign, immediately after World War […]
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What is the waltz for?
I am indebted to a Facebook-using reader of Dr. Kwasnieski’s “Tradition & Sanity” substack for asking “How is dancing with members of the opposite sex better than other forms of […]
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Closer to heaven
I had two unpleasant shocks on Thursday. The first was the ferocious attack by a small but deeply convinced minority upon the “Tradition & Sanity” post to which I contributed […]