Charleston (dance)


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The Charleston was a type of dance popular in more than one nation on Earth during the 1920s. It was remembered at least into the 1970s and 1980s, and gained at least nominal purchase in Australia. Tegan Jovanka, an Australian in her early 20s in 1980, was proficient enough in the dance to perform it at Cranleigh Hall in England in the 1920s. (DW: Black Orchid) Tegan's enthusiasm for the dance apparently infected Nyssa as well. Some 3000 years before her birth, she attempted to teach the Charleston on Traken, calling it "good exercise". The Doctor maintained a disdainful distance from the dance. "The mark of a gentleman is that he knows how to Charleston — but doesn't."

- The Fifth Doctor (BFA: Primeval) In 1929, at a party held in Antibes, France. Romana was invited to show her skill with the dance, but she declined. (CC: The Stealers from Saiph) Amy Pond once tried to learn the dance. (NSA: The Coming of the Terraphiles)