The Grizzly Bear (dance) / Le Pas de l’Ours (danse) - 1913

The year 1913 saw a craze for dances based on animal movements – the turkey trot, the foxtrot, and this example, based on the movements of a dancing bear. This film shows how our upper-class forbears let their hair, or maybe their fur, down! The film is silent, so I have added the music from an early gramophone record. / L’an 1913 a vu une engouement pour des danses basées sur les mouvements d’animaux – le “turkey trot”, le foxtrot, et la danse vue dans ce film, le Pas de l’Ours. Le film montre comment nos