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An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is …
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- An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.
- An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart andwith a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by adrop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positionsassumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances arethe bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to themovements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.