VIRGINIA BACON
NED WAYBURN’S TOE DANCING
ALL forms of modern toe dancing—and there are several—are based upon the ballet technique, of which a synopsis of my own Americanized form appears in a preceding chapter.
There is toe dancing of the really classical school in the perfected ballet. That is the kind with which we are most familiar. When a mother says, "I want my child to be taught toe dancing," she usually expects to be understood as referring to the ballet in its entirety, of which dancing on the toes seems symbolical.
But of later years there has developed in the terpsichorean art other forms and combinations of toe dancing besides the strictly classical, as for instance, the eccentric toe dance and the acrobatic toe dance.
As to the classical form, reference to the ballet chapter will find its present development duly set forth.
The eccentric toe dance and its fellow, the acrobatic toe dance, both have their beginnings in the fundamental ballet technique, in which one must be well and properly schooled before expecting to succeed in the more advanced work of these laterday favorites.