Boston (dance)

The Boston refers to a series of various step dances, considered a slow Americanized version of the waltz^[1][2] presumably named after where it originated.^[1] It is completed in one measure with the weight kept on the same foot through two successive beats.^[3] The "original" Boston is also known as the New York Boston or Boston Point.^[4]

Variations of the Boston include:

• The Long Boston^[5][6] also known as the Philadelphia Boston,^[6] the Walking Boston^[7] or the One Step Waltz.^[6][7]
• The One-Step.^[8]
• The Short Boston,.^[5]
• The Dip Boston.^[5]
• The Spanish Boston^[9]
• The French Boston^[1]
• The Herring Bone Boston^[10]
• The English Boston or Three-Step Boston.^[11]
• The Four-Step Boston or Four-Step Waltz.^[12]
• The Five-Step Boston^[2] or Five-Step Waltz.^[13]
• The Seven-Step Boston.^[14]
• The Double Boston or Cross Boston or Count of Luxembourg Staircase Valse^[15]
• The Triple Boston^[16]
• The Triple Double Boston^[17]
• The Russian Boston^[18]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Moore, Arabella E. (1900). The dance, ancient and modern / translated from the French. Philadelphia, Pa.: A. Moore. p. 26.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Swepstone, Eileen (1914). The tango, as standardized and taught by the representative dancing masters of the North American continent. Vancouver, B.C.: J. H. Welch. p. 14.
3. ↑ Kinney, Troy (1914). Social dancing of to-day, demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co. p. 21.
4. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 90.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kinney, Troy (1914). Social dancing of to-day, demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co. p. 22.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 83.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Walker, Caroline (1914). The modern dances, how to dance them: complete instructions for learning the tango, or one step, the Castle walk, the walking Boston, the hesitation waltz, the dream waltz, the Argentine tango. (3rd ed.). Chicago: Saul Brothers. p. 35.
8. ↑ Swepstone, Eileen (1914). The tango, as standardized and taught by the representative dancing masters of the North American continent. Vancouver, B.C.: J. H. Welch. p. 15.
9. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 86.
10. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 88.
11. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 92.
12. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 93.
13. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 94.
14. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 96.
15. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 98.
16. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 100.
17. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 101.
18. ↑ Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 103.