Making it worth your while
2021-12-12 05:34:29.504168+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Huh, some things are timeless. Silly question: Of what era and what dance style was this written?
"But when the dancing masters got hold of it, and people paid them good money to teach them how to do it, they had to make it so complicated and difficult that it would be worth paying for, and if they made it difficult enough, it would require many lessons with their many continuing payments. And the public were all proud as punch because they had learned and paid for something so very complicated!"
(Lloyd "Pappy" Shaw, writing in "The Round Dance Book", about the polka, which legend has it was invented in circa 1830)