The Dance in Literature Quiz

The Dance in Literature Quiz!

Match the Author with the Quotation
Match the Quotation to the Dance!
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Match the Author with the Quotation (there are a few extra authors thrown in just to make it more challenging!)
Catherine E. Beecher Moliere Evelyn Waugh Lousia May Alcott Frances Burney R. S. Surtees Jane Austen Guglielmo Ebreo Anonymous		There is nothing so necessary to mankind than dance....All the miseries of mankind, all the dreadful tragedies that history is full of, all the blunders of politicians, all the inadequacies of great captains--they all come from not having taken dancing lessons. Good fellows must go learn to dance, The bridal is full near-a, There is a Braule come out of France, The trick'st you heard this year-a; For I must leap, and thou must hop, And we must turn all three-a, The fourth must bounce it like a top, And so we shall agree-a; I pray thee, Minstrel, make no stop, For we will merry be-a. The art of dancing is, for generous hearts that love it, and for gentle spirits that have a heaven-sent inclination for it rather than an accidental disposition, a most amiable matter, entirely different form and mortally inimical to the vicious and artless common people who frequently, with corrupt spirits and depraved minds, turn it from a liberal art and virtuous science, into a vile adulterous affair, and who more often in their dishonest concupiscence under the guise of modesty, make the dance a procuress, through whom they are able to arrive stealthily at the satisfaction of their desires. "...dancing? Oh dreadful! how it was ever adopted in a civilized county I cannot find out; 'tis certainly a Barbarian exercise, and of savage origin." I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none--except possibly folk dancing. These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else's wife. A third rule, is, to avoid those amusements, which experience has shown to be so exciting, and connected with so many temptations, as to be pernicious in tendency, both to the individual and to the community. It is on this ground, that horse-racing and circus-riding are excluded....Under the same head, comes dancing.... As this recreation is actually conducted, it does not tend to produce health of body or mind, but directly the contrary. If young and old went out to dance together in the open air as the French peasants do, it would be a very different sort of amusement, from that which is witnessed, in a room, furnished with many lights, and filled with guests, both expending the healthful part of the atmosphere, where the young collect, in their tightest dresses, to protract, for several hours, a kind of physical exertion, which is not habitual to them. During this process, the blood is made to circulate more swiftly than ordinary, in circumstances where it is less perfectly oxygenized than health requires; the pores of the skin are excited by heat and exercise; the stomach is flooded with indigestible articles, and the quiet, needful to digestions, withheld; the diversion is protracted beyond the usual hour for repose; and then, when the skin is made the most highly susceptible to damps and miasms, the company pass from a warm room to the col night-air.
Match the Quotation to the Dance!! (A few extra dances have been thrown in to make this trickier!)
The Virginia Reel The Pavane The Sir Roger de Coverley The Cotillon The Minuet The One-Step The Tango The Galop The Waltz The Polka The Cotillion (the "German")		Among the many reason for [this dance] having become general, is the possibility of dancing it to so many different airs, though the steps are invariable. If one tune does not please a performer, he may call for another, [the dance] still remaining inalterable. (Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, 1762) Blest was the time {this dance} chose for her debut; The court, the Regent, like herself were new;.... [Now] Hoops are no more, and petticoats not much; Morals and minuets, virtue and her stays, And tell-tale powder--all have had their days.... Round all the confines of the yielded waist, The strangest hand may wander undisplaced.... Thus front to front the partners move or stand, The foot may rest, but none withdraw the hand. (Lord Byron, 1816) The glittering display of tinsel satin favors that used to be the featured and gayest decoration of every ballroom, is gone; the [dance] leader, his hand full of "seat checks," his manners a cross between those of Lord Chesterfield and a traffic policemen, is gone; and much of the distinction that used to be characteristic of the ballroom is gone with [this dance]. There is not question that [this dance] was prettier to look at than a mob scene of dancers crowding each other for every few inches of progress. (Emily Post, 1922) After Paris had taken [this dance] up a few years ago, its too sensuous character was gradually toned down, and from a rather obscene exhibition, which is still indulged in by certain cabaret performers, it bloomed forth a polished and extremely fascinating dance, which has not had its equal in rhythmical allurement since the days of the Minuet...[this dance] is unquestionably the most difficult of the new dances....it was rumored that [this dance] was composed of one hundred and sixty different steps. Enough to terrify the most inveterate dancer! (Vernon Castle, 1914) We found [this dance] a very easy matter to dance it, as long as we had thirty or forty lookers-on to prompt us. The dancers are formed in two long ranks, facing each other, and the battle opens with some light skirmishing between the pickets, which is gradually resolved into a general engagement along the whole line; after that, you have nothing to do but stand by and grab every lady that drifts within reach of you, and swing her. It is very entertaining, and elaborately scientific also; but we observed that with a partner who had danced it before, we were able to perform it rather better than the balance of the guests. (Mark Twain, 1836) A cavalier may dance [this dance] wearing his cloak and sword, and others, such as you, dressed in your long [students'] gowns, walking with decorum and measured gravity. And the damsels with demure mien, their eyes lowered save to cast an occasional glance of virginal modesty at the onlookers. (Thoinet Arbeau, 1589) Especially is it necessary, now that ladies are wearing drawing-room and dinner dresses at balls, that [the man] should understand the engineering of "trains" in all their most extravagant curves, lengths and contortions. Also he must be sure of his footing and vertical equilibrium, when dashing through a crowd to the "clear-the-track" music of [this dance], or he will be in imminent peril of being swept into a corner with the rush of a "flying train." (C. H. Cleveland, Jr., 1878)
For extra credit: All of the above quotations but one appear in Dancing Through Time. Which quotation does not? Click Here for the Answers and to Score your Quiz!