G. Hepburn Wilson

{{Short description|Dancer}}

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George Hepburn Wilson (June 17, 1875 – ?) was an American dance instructor and a writer and editor of Modern Dance magazine.{{cite news |title=Club Notes |quote=G. Hepburn Wilson master member of the international society of masters dancing and editor of Modern Dance magazine ... |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=March 11, 1917 }}{{cite book |author=Eve Golden |author-link=Eve Golden |title=Vernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution |year=2007 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |page=[https://archive.org/details/vernonirenecastl00gold_0/page/99 99]| url= https://archive.org/details/vernonirenecastl00gold_0 |url-access=registration |quote=George Hepburn Wilson. |isbn=978-0-8131-2459-9 }} He also supervised jazz recordings by Prince's Band.{{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Tim |last2=Rust |first2=Brian |title=The Columbia Master Book Discography Volume 4 |date=1989 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0-313-21464-6 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iYRVXumnCkC&dq=G.+Hepburn+Wilson&pg=PA171 |access-date=19 September 2021}} He was the first dance master to advertise widely in the newspapers for individual pupils.{{cite book |last1=Groppa |first1=Carlos G. |title=The Tango in the United States: A History |date=2004 |publisher=McFarland & Company Inc. |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=978-0-7864-4681-0 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qr9HDwAAQBAJ&dq=G.+Hepburn+Wilson&pg=PA108 |access-date=19 September 2021}} Wilson was at odds with the established American National Association of Masters of Dancing, describing the foxtrot and the one-step as dances of a bygone age and advocating jazz dancing, the ramble and the toddle.{{cite book |last1=Griswold |first1=Wick |title=Austin in the Jazz Age |date=2015 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston SC |isbn=978-1-62619-918-7 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NAYzCgAAQBAJ&dq=G.+Hepburn+Wilson&pg=PA13 |access-date=19 September 2021}}