Folk Dance in Tasmania
You'll find most of what you'll want to know about Folk Dance in Tasmania in our Forthcoming Enets and Regular Events pages. This page contains bits and pieces of extra information for the real danceoholics!
 "Dancing is for the most
part attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments,
unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music,
lust-provoking attire, ridiculous love-pranks, all which savour
only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lust. Therefore it is
wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.
"Dancing serves no
necessary use - no profitable, laudable or pious end at all. It
issues only from the inbred depravity, vanity, wantonness,
incontinency, pride, profaneness or madness of men's depraved
natures. Therefore it must needs be unlawful unto Christians.
"The way to Heaven is
too steep, too narrow, for men to dance in .... No way is large
or smooth enough for capering roisters or for skipping, jumping,
dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to
Hell! The gate of Heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole
troops of dancers to march in together."
-- the Puritan William Prynne, Cromwell's England, c. 1650.
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