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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Masquerades, tableaux and drills.

Butterick Publishing Company.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, Butterick Publishing Co., c1906.

SUMMARY
This manual provides step-by-step instructions, augmented by numerous illustrations, for giving masquerades, conducting tableaux, and creating "fancy drills." Costumes, hair styles, and accessories are included for Calico and Martha Washington balls, Joan of Arc, a football player, Beau Brummel, and a shepherdess. Additionally, the manual provides suggestions for tableaux scenes and living pictures ("pose plastique").

NOTES
Cover title.

SUBJECTS
Balls (Parties)
Tableaux.
Marching drills--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Theatrical Dance.
Notation for Dance.

MEDIUM
144 p. incl. illus., pl. 24 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1737 .B96

DIGITAL ID
musdi 033 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.033

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