Rapper Dancing
Despite its rapid growth in the Industrial Revolution, Tyneside did develop one peculiar local custom, the rapper sword dance, which later spread to neighbouring areas of Northumberland and County Durham.
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Famous quotes containing the word dancing:
“We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)