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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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The art of dancing, embracing a full description of the various dances of the present day, together with chapters on etiquette, the benefits and history of dancing. By Judson Sause ...

Sause, Judson.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
5th ed.
Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co., [c1889]

SUMMARY
This manual is acknowledged by the author to be a compilation of other sources. In its eight chapters, the work covers etiquette, general instructions for feet positions and bows, the quadrille, contra dances ("Spanish Dance," "Sicilian Circle," and "Virginia Reel"), as well as the polka redowa, York, schottisch, military schottisch, Bohemian, and several waltz variations--modern, hop, five-step, and knickerbocker. The manual concludes with thirty-two figures for the German (also known as the cotillon).

SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

MEDIUM
181 p. incl. plates. front. (port.) 20 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .S25 1889

DIGITAL ID
musdi 150 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.150

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(Video clip for p. 110) - The Fan, from the German

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