Dances That Kill by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 19, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 45.

Dances That Kill.

By Editor

An article appears in one of the Sunday magazines entitled, "The Doom of the Dances That Kill," in which one of the dancing artists tells us that new forms of dances will be devised. She says of the old that "I have watched a roomful of young people executing these strange, vulgar gyrations, and I have felt that the hand of death was on the dancers. Their faces are drawn and haggard and old. Every dancer looks like a consumptive. These are dances that kill. They are exhausting." And this writer thinks that because they are so exhausting, they will give place to others that are not. But that never has been the case with this old world. It has indulged in the passions that kill from the very beginning. It has among the devotees of pleasure been one great, long dance of death, exhausting, consuming, destroying those who have yielded themselves to its mad whirl. Reform must come from something else than a mere form of pleasure. It must have deeper hold.