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Northway and Chiles doing the Novelette, circa 1927
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The Novelette Dance History title

The song dates back to 1921 by Cecil Burleigh. However the Novelette was a ballroom exhibition type dance created by >Madeline Northway and >George Chiles and introduced at the Biltmore Hotel in New York in 1927. color=The routine they used was called 'They Danced' and is also listed here, (click link). It was 86 measures long and was danced to "The Doll Dance" song by Nacio Herb Brown.

There are five pictures below of these two dancers demonstrating the Novelette dance , they are in this order:
1) Introduction,
2) Preperation for Arabesque,
3) The Cross,
4) The Flirtation and
5) The Finale.

There were other Novelette dances such as the Dainty Demoiselles Novellete back in 1914.

Birth Place

Creation Date

Creator

Dance Type

New York 1927 Northway and Chiles Exhibition Ballroom
Click here for steps sheet for Novelette Routine [ Cheat Sheet]

Posters, Lobby Cards etc.

Sheet Music Covers

Music Titles

n/a Doll Dance Dainty Demoiselles Novellete> (Pierson)
      Novelette (zez confrey 1923) Doll Dance (Brown)
        Novelette (Burleigh)
        Novelette in C (Poulenc)
        Novelette in Fourths (Gershwin) 1925
        Rigaudon & Novelette (Chaminade)
            The Novelette (Kabalevsky)
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Locations

Biltmore Hotel (NY) n/a New York
             
                 

Films / Movies

Television

Ballets / Stage

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Publications

            11/1927- Dance Magazine
                 

Other Related Dances of the time...

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Dancers, Choreographers etc.

Political

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Madeline Northway    

Books, Magazine Articles on the dance...

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Musicians, Composers etc.

Singers

Poets / Writers

Cecil Burleigh (1921) n/a n/a
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1923)      
Nacio Herb Brown (1927)      
Zez Confrey (1923)        
William T. Pierson (1914)
       

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March 5, 2004
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