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DanceMentor
03-06-2004, 04:01 PM
http://www.dance-forums.com/album/data/2/2dancetrivia1.jpg
MadamSamba
03-06-2004, 05:19 PM
Do we get a hint, DM? :lol:
DanceMentor
03-06-2004, 05:54 PM
This will probably give it away but...he invented a dance.
pygmalion
03-06-2004, 06:17 PM
Yes. That gives it away. Google, baby. I won't say. I was actually going to guess Arthur Murray, before the hint. I googled for photos of good old Art, but couldn't find any. I wonder if there are any to be had. Hmm.
chachagirlie
03-06-2004, 06:42 PM
I was thinking it was Vernon Castle?...
DanceMentor
03-06-2004, 06:45 PM
Yes, Vernon Castle certainly invented a dance...
(BTW, welcome to the Dance Forums!)
...but this is not Vernon Castle, although this person danced in the same era as the Castles.
pygmalion
03-06-2004, 06:46 PM
Are you talking about the Castle walk, chachagirlie? Welcome to the forums, btw. :D
chachagirlie
03-06-2004, 07:32 PM
thanks for the welcome...

Yes, the Castle Walk and the Foxtrot came to mind...
pygmalion
03-06-2004, 07:55 PM
LOL. Google, my friend. Google. 8)
pygmalion
03-07-2004, 08:07 AM
Peabody would have been another good guess in a similar (slightly later, I think) time period, but the guy who invented that one was supposed to have been really fat. Hence the way off to one side dance hold. Hmm.
anonymous lady
03-07-2004, 04:36 PM
the gentleman is Mr. Harry Fox, creator of "Fox's Trot', later called the Fox trot
pygmalion
03-07-2004, 04:40 PM
Hi anonymous lady! Welcome. 8) :D And of course, peabody was later, because it was a variation/derivation of the foxtrot. LOL.
DanceMentor
03-07-2004, 05:18 PM
That is exactly right, annonymous lady!
(and Welcome! :D )
DancingMommy
03-25-2005, 10:37 PM
Having NOT read the thread... Gene Kelly.

And now don't I feel STUPID. But he DOES look like Gene Kelly. Same facial expression, hands in pockets.... DRAT!
Warren J. Dew
03-25-2005, 10:55 PM
Yes. That gives it away. Google, baby. I won't say. I was actually going to guess Arthur Murray, before the hint. I googled for photos of good old Art, but couldn't find any. I wonder if there are any to be had. Hmm.
Google image search brings up three or four on the first page (all with his wife).
swan
03-26-2005, 12:22 PM
Did he invent the Intl' or American foxtrot? Which came first anyway? He'd look to me an American Foxtrot guy...
DancingMommy
03-26-2005, 12:36 PM
He invented *the* Fox Trot. Without dear Harry, we wouldn't have *any* Fox Trot. We'd all probably be dancing PEABODY. 8)

I crack me up.
pygmalion
03-26-2005, 01:31 PM
LOL. Just for the record, you crack me up too. :wink: :lol:
Chris Stratton
03-26-2005, 01:35 PM
Did he invent the Intl' or American foxtrot? Which came first anyway? He'd look to me an American Foxtrot guy...

I think pretty much all of the dances were invented somewhere (many of them here) but first really figured out by the British dance teacher tradition.

In the case of foxtrot, they've been trying to explain it to us ever since...
pygmalion
03-26-2005, 02:14 PM
Yes. That gives it away. Google, baby. I won't say. I was actually going to guess Arthur Murray, before the hint. I googled for photos of good old Art, but couldn't find any. I wonder if there are any to be had. Hmm.
Google image search brings up three or four on the first page (all with his wife).

Yep. Strange as it feels to say so, today, last year this time, I didn't know how to do a google image search. *shakes head vigorously -- hears marbles :shock: :lol: *

There a pic of AM himself here. 8)

http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d3amury2.htm

And here's another.

http://w w w.arthurmurraylasvegas.com/studiohistory.cfm