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The Inner Circle Toddle — Description of the Toddle by the Creator of the Dance, Mr. G. Hepburn Wilson, M.B. Music by Arthur N. Green (Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York, 1916)
Publisher: Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; Copyright MCMXVI (1916); British Copyright secured; Depositado conforme con las Leyes de los Paises de Sud y Central America y Mexico. Plate No. 8229-3. Sheet-music publisher imprint with interleaved prose description of the dance. G. Hepburn Wilson, M.B. is the dance's creator and the authoritative teacher of the early Toddle form — already in corpus as POWERS-1914-HEPWIL (1914 Castle-era Hesitation Waltz manual) and as POWERS-1916-WILSON-TODDLE here (the 1916 Toddle-composition pivot point). Structure: three 8-bar figures each followed by a Toddle Movement / Break of 7 quick counts. The 'Toddle Movement' is an L-foot-forward run of 5 counts followed by a slight graceful hop on the L foot (count 6) and a ball-of-R-foot tap on count 7 — forms the signature bridge between each figure. Figure 1 combines semi-open and closed positions with 2-slow-plus-4-quick turning steps; Figure 2 is 4-slow-forward plus a 4-count skating pivot; Figure 3 introduces a 3-quick diagonal chassé with rest. Historical value: documents the Toddle composition at the exact moment the dance entered the exhibition-ballroom circuit — precedes Murray's 1921 Rocking-Step / Toddle-Pivot / Shuffle-Step / Backward-Shuffle canonicals (H-GAB-FT-F0054/F0055/F0056/F0057) and the 1922 Frank Toddle (H-GAB-FT-F0029). Has_Step_Detail=Partial: count-numbered prose with positional notation but no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall/footwork annotations.Year: 1916Family: wilson-toddleCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; Copyright MCMXVI (1916); British Copyright secured; Depositado conforme con las Leyes de los Paises de Sud y Central America y Mexico. Plate No. 8229-3. Sheet-music publisher imprint with interleaved prose description of the dance. G. Hepburn Wilson, M.B. is the dance's creator and the authoritative teacher of the early Toddle form — already in corpus as POWERS-1914-HEPWIL (1914 Castle-era Hesitation Waltz manual) and as POWERS-1916-WILSON-TODDLE here (the 1916 Toddle-composition pivot point). Structure: three 8-bar figures each followed by a Toddle Movement / Break of 7 quick counts. The 'Toddle Movement' is an L-foot-forward run of 5 counts followed by a slight graceful hop on the L foot (count 6) and a ball-of-R-foot tap on count 7 — forms the signature bridge between each figure. Figure 1 combines semi-open and closed positions with 2-slow-plus-4-quick turning steps; Figure 2 is 4-slow-forward plus a 4-count skating pivot; Figure 3 introduces a 3-quick diagonal chassé with rest. Historical value: documents the Toddle composition at the exact moment the dance entered the exhibition-ballroom circuit — precedes Murray's 1921 Rocking-Step / Toddle-Pivot / Shuffle-Step / Backward-Shuffle canonicals (H-GAB-FT-F0054/F0055/F0056/F0057) and the 1922 Frank Toddle (H-GAB-FT-F0029). Has_Step_Detail=Partial: count-numbered prose with positional notation but no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall/footwork annotations. (1916). Imported from local collection.