In 1914, F. Leslie Clendenen, President of the St. Louis Association of Masters of Dancing, published the book Dance Mad or the Dances of the Day, a compilation of dance steps and choreographed sequences from himself and fourteen other dancing masters. He ended the book with an announcement and a request:
Should the dance craze continue for one year longer, the writer will issue an enlarged edition before January 1, 1915, containing the dances as danced up to that dime [sic].
All persons having new dances are requested to send us a copy on or before December 1, 1915.
Dance teachers responded in droves, tripling the number of listed contributors to forty-five, and enabling Clendenen to more than double the size of his book.
An enlarged second edition of Dance Mad duly appeared, with updates scattered through the existing sections and more than fifty pages of new dances for the 1914-1915 season. The introduction to the new dances is dated August 15th, 1914.
Comparing the two editions offers an interesting snapshot of what new dances first appeared or were publicized during the "dance craze" year of 1914.
The first edition of Dance Mad is available online via Google Books. Pages thirty-one and thirty-two are missing, but the table of contents tells us that they contained tango steps. There are four main sections of dances and dance sequences: tango, maxixe, waltz (including Boston, hesitation waltz, and combinations), and Castle walks. There are also a few one-steps and schottisches, a three-step, an early appearance of directions to the Texas Tommy, and a short sequence reminiscent of the Washington Post. Philadelphia dancing master Albert W. Newman made a sizable contribution with a set of dance instructions drawn directly from his own book, Dances of To-Day, which appear together rather than in the sections for each dance.
Most of this material reappears unchanged in the second edition, though the order has been rearranged, there are minor changes of layout, and the accompanying illustrations have been unpredictably redistributed among the dances. The front material is identical. The section on tango steps is greatly expanded. A new maxixe sequence appears, along with a Brazilian polka. The largest addition is a wide array of new hesitation waltz sequences. There are also some new one-step sequences. But the new dances of greatest interest are the representatives of some of the very latest dance fads: a gavotte, several half and halfs, the Ta Tao, different versions of the Furlana and the Lu Lu Fado, and, most importantly in the overall history of dance, two brief sets of directions for the foxtrot.
Clendenen also added a helpful note, What to teach, which provides further guidance about what was said to be particularly popular:
For the benefit of our readers who desire to teach the dances generally in use at this time we recommend the following:
The One-Step Canter and Waltz Canter is generally danced in the East.
The Hesitation not often seen.
Maxixe quite a favorite. Half and Half will be a favorite wherever taught.
In conclusion, if you want to be up-to-date, teach Waltz Canter, One-Step and Canter, Half and Half and Maxixe.
We are also having many calls for Lu Lu Fada and Brazilian Polka.
And a final note to assure readers of his cosmopolitan connections:
We are in weekly communication with the best teachers in Argentina, Paris and London, therefore we get the new dances as danced there as fast as they become popular.
We have the original Maxixe, not what is called Maxixe. As it is quite lengthy we have left it for future work.
Taking it section by section, here are the changes and additions between the two editions. The live links are to my own further writing or reconstructions of these dances. (Note: edited multiple times through December 2022 to add more links.)
Tango
Both editions include several miscellaneous tango sequences:
Tango No. 1 (Clendenen?)
Two-Step Tango
South Indian Harem Tango (Kaserman)
Butterfly Tango
Tango (Zebley)
Mixed Pickles Tango
The second edition replaces two and a half pages of tango steps with a six-page stage tango and then adds twenty-two more pages of descriptions of steps for the Argentine and Parisian Tango. Also included is a transcription of directions for a nineteenth-century tango by Markowksi, the same one described by Charles Durang in The Fashionable Dancer's Casket (Philadelphia, 1856), but using less technical language, and a brief blurb titled Mine the only correct tango.
A Butterfly Tango No. 2 appears in the index of both editions, but not in the text of either.
Maxixe
Three maxixes appear in both editions:
Stage Version
Maxixe No. 2 "As Danced in Paris"
Maxixe No. 3 (For Ball Room)
The second edition adds the Brazilian Maxixe to this section. A maxixe also appears in the miscellaneous dances below along with a Brazilian polka and a version of the Lu Lu Fado.
Castle Walks
The Castle Walks section is identical in both editions, containing eight sequences and the Cassell Glide:
Castle Walks Nos. 1-6
Castle Glide or Walk No. 7
Castle Walk (Sampson)
Cassell Glide
Hesitation Waltzes, Bostons, and Waltz Combinations
This section is identical in both editions:
Hesitation (as taught at our Academy)
Atlantic City or American Beauty Hesitation
Hesitations Nos. 1-3
Var-Sou Hesitation
Hesitation Waltz (Faurot)
Dream Waltz
One Step Waltz
Hesitation with "Stroll Walk"
Lane School Waltz
Charmeuse Waltz or Boston
Cinderella
"Skip Boston"
Pompadour Waltz
Marie Waltz
Humming Bird Dance
Original Boston
Boston Glide
Long Boston
The Royal
In addition to the above, in the second edition, nineteen new waltz sequences appear elsewhere in the book, mostly in the New Dances section. These are listed under the miscellaneous dances below.
Mr. Newman's dances
This section is not marked as a specific type of dance. It contains tangos, hesitation waltzes, Bostons, and the Texas Tommy, and is identical in both editions.
Newman Tango (Minuet of the Twentieth Century)
Newman Tango "Argentine"
Tango
Fan Tango
Texas Tommy
Four Step Waltz
English Boston
Philadelphia Boston
The Boston Spanish
Herring Bone Boston
Five Step Waltz
Aeroplane Waltz
Hesitation Waltz
Miscellaneous dances and New Dances 1914-1915
The following dances are squeezed in here and there in both editions
The One Step (Duryea)
One Step "Variations" (Humphrey); includes several animal dances
Sorority Glide
Dip Schottische
Dixie Swirl (to tango music)
The Arcade [similar to the Washington Post]
Universal Schottische
Eloise Three-Step
The second edition wedges a few more dances into random corners of the book, but most appear in the largest new section, the forty-eight-page New Dances 1914-1915, which contains a little of everything. I will list the additions below sorted by dance type. Those in bold are scattered throughout the book rather than being included in the New Dances section.
One-Step
Society Jingle (Wolfe)
One Steps
The One Step Hesitation (Frick)
One Step (As taught by our Academy)
One Step (Rothard)
One Step
Yankee Doodle One Step (Da Pron)
One Step Canter (Kretlow)
One Step Canter
Half & Half
Half & Half
Half and Half (Twins) [variations in posts here, here, here]
Half and Half (Miles)
Half and Half (Castle Assistants) [variations in posts here, here, here, here]
Maxixe and other Brazilian dances
Maxixe (Sampson)
Brazilian Polka
Lu-Lu-Fada
Waltz (including Boston, hesitation waltzes, and combinations)
Rye Hesitation
One Step Hesitation
Viennese Waltz
Luxembourg Waltz
Waltz Canter
The Twinkle (Walker)
Twinkle No. 2
Twinkle Hesitation Waltz (McDougall)
Blue Danube Hesitation (Kehl)
Twinkle Hesitation (Cortissoz)
"Scroll" Hesitation Waltz
Hesitation Waltz (Soby)
Hesitation Undercut (Cortissoz)
Hesitation Waltz (Prinz)
Hesitation Waltz (Zebley)
Spanish Hesitation Waltz (Ringler)
Mistletoe Hesitation (Cain)
Exeter Waltz (Walters)
Waltz of the Winds (Chambers)
American Grapevine Dance (Giaconia)
Schottische/Gavotte/Caprice
Gavotte
Exeter Caprice (Walters)
Pan-American Glide (Bouley)
Miscellaneous fad dances
Forlana/Furlana
Furlana (Humphrey)
Venetian Rose / La Furlano (Clendenen)
Ta Tao
Foxtrot
Fox Trot
Fox Trot No. 2 (As danced by Mr. Fox)
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