Like the similarly-named Twinkle Hesitation and the Mistletoe Hesitation, the Twinkle Hesitation Waltz is a sixteen-bar hesitation waltz sequence found in F. Leslie Clendenen's compilation Dance Mad (St. Louis, 1914) that uses the quick step-change-step known as a "twinkle". Clendenen attributes it to T. MacDougall. It can be used as a sequence dance to any fast 1910s waltz music, or the two parts can be used together or separately as variations in a regular hesitation waltz.
The dancers start in a normal ballroom hold, opened out to side by side facing line of dance. Steps below are given for the gentleman; the lady dances opposite.
The waltz step used would be the box-shaped "new waltz" of the era rather than the fast-spinning rotary waltz of the nineteenth century.
Part One
1b Step forward left
1b Step forward right
1b Step back left
1b Twinkle by stepping back right to close feet on (1) and forward again left (3)
1b Step forward right
1b Step forward left
1b Step back right
1b Twinkle by stepping back left to close feet on (1) and forward again right (3)
(Turn to face each other, beginning to swing around clockwise to put the gentleman's back to line of dance)
Part Two
1b Step left backward (lady forward) along line of dance
1b Half-turn of reverse (counter-clockwise) waltz, right-left-right (back-side-close)
(Gentleman is now facing line of dance; continue the momentum of the reverse turn into the next two bars)
1b Step left forward, pivoting a half-turn counter-clockwise
(Gentleman now has his back to line of dance, or close to it; the half-turn can be completed on the next step)
1b Step right backward and dip (lady lunges forward); rise on (3) to prepare for next step
4b Repeat all of above
Both the reconstruction and the dance itself are very straightforward. The sequence and its component parts are easy enough to enter and exit from a regular hesitation waltz that no further explanation seems necessary.
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