Boston (dance)

The Boston refers to various step dances, considered a slow Americanized version of the waltz[1][2] presumably named after where it originated.[1] It is completed in one measure with the weight kept on the same foot through two successive beats.[3] The "original" Boston is also known as the New York Boston or Boston Point.[4]

Variations of the Boston include:

  • The Long Boston[5][6] also known as the Philadelphia Boston,[6] the Walking Boston[7] or the One Step Waltz.[6][7]
  • The One-Step.[8]
  • The Short Boston,.[5]
  • The Dip Boston.[5]
  • The Spanish Boston[9]
  • The French Boston[1]
  • The Herring Bone Boston[10]
  • The English Boston or Three-Step Boston.[11]
  • The Four-Step Boston or Four-Step Waltz.[12]
  • The Five-Step Boston[2] or Five-Step Waltz.[13]
  • The Seven-Step Boston.[14]
  • The Double Boston or Cross Boston or Count of Luxembourg Staircase Valse[15]
  • The Triple Boston[16]
  • The Triple Double Boston[17]
  • The Russian Boston[18]

References
  1. Moore, Arabella E. (1900). The dance, ancient and modern / translated from the French. Philadelphia, Pa.: A. Moore. p. 26.
  2. Swepstone, Eileen (1914). The tango, as standardized and taught by the representative dancing masters of the North American continent. Vancouver, B.C.: J. H. Welch. p. 14.
  3. Kinney, Troy (1914). Social dancing of to-day, demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co. p. 21.
  4. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 90.
  5. Kinney, Troy (1914). Social dancing of to-day, demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co. p. 22.
  6. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 83.
  7. Walker, Caroline (1914). The modern dances, how to dance them: complete instructions for learning the tango, or one step, the Castle walk, the walking Boston, the hesitation waltz, the dream waltz, the Argentine tango (3rd ed.). Chicago: Saul Brothers. p. 35.
  8. Swepstone, Eileen (1914). The tango, as standardized and taught by the representative dancing masters of the North American continent. Vancouver, B.C.: J. H. Welch. p. 15.
  9. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 86.
  10. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 88.
  11. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 92.
  12. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 93.
  13. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 94.
  14. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 96.
  15. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 98.
  16. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 100.
  17. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 101.
  18. Newman, Albert W. (1914). Dances of to-day. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co. p. 103.


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