The Hanes Cantrece was created by the king of the discotheque, “Killer Joe” Piro, to introduce Hanes Cantrece nylons with the exclusive Run Guard heel and toe feature. Beginning with the basic kick and clap, every one of the five steps which make up The Hones Cantrece calls for movement... for stretching, bending, looking beautiful. All the things that Hones Cantrece nylons do so well!
The rhythm of the music written expressly for The Hanes Cantrece is 4/4 time. All the dance steps are counted 4 beats to the bar. Example: 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 1, 2, etc. The feet keep time. So do the hips, as they swing with each step to the beat of the music.
Follow the sequence “Killer Joe” indicates. Feel free to improvise. Have fun! You may enjoy doing The Hanes Cantrece even more—in your stocking feet. Preferably in stockings by the same name.
HANES CANTRECE KICK AND CLAP (BASIC STEP)
b. Skip sideways (going to left) on the count of 3
c. Raise right knee and clap hands under right leg on court of 4
d. Step to the side with right foot on the count of 1, 2
e. Skip sideways (going to right) on the count of 3
f. Raise left knee and clop hands under left leg on count of 4
RUN GUARD HEEL AND TOE
a. Hop to left side on left foot, crossing right foot in front of left leg on the count of 1, 2
a. Place weight on right foot, sett leg to the side on heel on count of 1
a. Place weight on right foot, left leg to the side on heel on the count of 1
b. Bring left toe to right foot on the count of 2
c. Repeat above pattern three move times
d. Place weight on left loot, right leg to the side on heel on the count of 3
e. Bring right toe to left foot on the count of 2
I. Repeat above pattern three move times
NEW YORK TO CALIFORNIA
b. Hop to right side on right foot, crossing left foot in front of right leg on the count of 3, 4
c. Repeat above pattern three more times
REPEAT BASIC STEP
AROUND THE WORLD
b. Bring left toe to right foot, pivot on right foot to the right (clockwise) on count of 2
c. Repeat above movement three more times, going around in a circle
REPEAT BASIC STEP
HANES SWING
a. Shift weight to left foot, keeping both knees bent, on the count of 1
a. Shift weight to right foot, keeping both knees bent, on the count of 2
c. Repeat above movement three more times
REPEAT BASIC STEP AND START ALL OVER AGAIN
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| Portrait of Frank “Killer Joe” Piro in 1942. |
Frank “Killer Joe” Piro (March 2, 1921 – February 5, 1989) was a dance instructor to high society and popularized steps of the discotheque era of the 1960s and 1970s.
In the early fifties, he opened his own studio on 54 West 55th Street in Manhattan, where many in New York’s high society came to take dance lessons. Over the decades he taught what would become the mainstays of the discothèque scene: the Mambo, the Cha-cha and the Merengue, then the Twist and later the Frug, the Frog, the Watusi, and the Hully Gully.
His students included the Duke of Windsor, Sita Devi Gaekwar - Maharani of Baroda, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ray Bolger, Luci Baines Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and, by 1965, more than a million other Americans via the Emmy award-winning TV show That Was the Week That Was.
His fame somehow spread far enough to be photographed by Richard Avedon and to inspire a Filipino guitar band, the Rocky Fellers, to record a tribute tune, “Killer Joe,” for Scepter Records in 1963. The record earned the band a spot on the Top 40 pop charts for a few weeks, though it bears more than a passing similarity to the Mickey & Sylvia hit, “Love is Strange.”
Despite being the undisputed “King of the Discotheque,” Piro never opened his own club. Asked why, he replied, “I like things the way they are. I don’t want to be watching a cash register, watching the waiters – it would take all the beauty of dancing away from me and I would get old.”
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