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Excerpt from Dancing for Strength and Beauty (Renascent Dancing): A Critical and Practical Treatise The term renascent is used for the kind of dancing advocated in this treatise, because it implies the idea of coming again into being. It suggests the revival of a spirit that has animated the practice of dancing during those historic periods when its marvellous potentiality for develop ing strength and beauty has been most fully recognized. It also suggests the rebirth of a style that is healthy and virile, as opposed to certain degenerate movements which obtained too firm a hold on the public fancy in the years immediately preceding the great war, and the formless dances to rhythmless music that followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.