For Nieto de Herrera, it was clear that jazz, the dance, was the creation of a single individual,Oscar Duryea, a well-known dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor in New York at thetime, who had contributed in 1914 to the standardization and popularization of the steps forthe foxtrot and who apparently invented a new dance in 1916: the ‘two-two’.47 Thus, the intri-cate set of dancing instructions that Nieto de Herrera presented in Spanish to her readers inHavana came from a set of instructions published previously in English by Duryea. All thingsconsidered, following the steps seems to make evident that jazz dance – as prescribed byDuryea and amplified by Nieto de Herrera – was bounded within the stylistic realm of foxtrot,tango, waltz, one-step, two-step, and other ‘society dances’ of the 1910s. While the specificityand sophistication of the instructions reminds us, in a way, of much older society dances –such as the contradance – they also point to social parameters defined by Victorian and bour-geois sensibilities:Walk slowly during three steps in the line of direction, starting with the left foot. Stopon the third step, balancing the weight of the body [bending?] over the left foot;count long ‘one, two, three,’ which should account for six [beats] in the music.Quickly bring the right foot next to the left foot, put the left foot forward and changethe step so that it falls over the right foot. Count two and four. Repeat the last twosteps starting with the right foot and stopping over the right foot when giving thethird step forward and count two. Advance with the left foot and stop for an instant.(1). Cross the right foot behind the left foot, closing suddenly to find the step of the45 ‘[E]l jazz, elegantísimo baile que está haciendo furor en los salones de alta sociedad neoyorkinos. El jazz es el últimoderivado del Fox Trot, más animado, más entusiasta y más elegante que el primero, pues su ritmo hace lucir, en toda suamplitud, la gracia y la gentileza de los bailadores.’ El Universal, 17 April 1918, 8. The ‘Dancing casino’ parties,announced as ‘recepciones’ and ‘bailes de etiqueta’ were to take place at the business’s salons, located at ‘Casa No.12 de la calle San Juan de Letrán’.46 See Wald, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll, 49–59.47 ‘Oscar Duryea,’ in Sonny Watson’s Street Swing website: www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2durya1.htm (accessed 13August 2022); The Northeastern Reporter, vol. 90, 4 January–22 March 1910, 1019, 1141.362 Ospina Romero The Dawn of the Jazz Age in the Caribbean