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Book/Printed Material 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

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Title

  • 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

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).

Names

  • Sause, Judson

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co., [c1889]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .S25 1889
  • The household library, v. 4, no. 44

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05029195

Online Format

  • image

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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Sause, Judson. 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. [Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co, 1889] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05029195/.

APA citation style:

Sause, J. (1889) 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. [Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05029195/.

MLA citation style:

Sause, Judson. 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. [Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co, 1889] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05029195/>.