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Book/Printed Material The perfect art of modern dancing

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Title

  • The perfect art of modern dancing

Summary

  • This manual, part of a series that included such publications as The perfect art of canning and preserving and Nursing and nourishment for invalids, was directly marketed to women. It begins by discussing the suitability of teaching dance to children. The author suggests that dance is good for health and deportment, and lessons should commence at age five. Various dances are described including quadrilles, contra dances, round dances, and the German (also known as the cotillon)

Names

  • Witherspoon, Edna

Created / Published

  • London, New York, Butterick Publishing Co., c1894.

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Cover title.

Medium

  • 1 p.l., 65 p. illus. 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .W82
  • Metropolitan pamphlet series, v. 7, no. 2

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05029200

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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:

Witherspoon, Edna. The Perfect Art of Modern Dancing. London, New York, Butterick Publishing Co, 1894. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05029200/.

APA citation style:

Witherspoon, E. (1894) The Perfect Art of Modern Dancing. London, New York, Butterick Publishing Co. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05029200/.

MLA citation style:

Witherspoon, Edna. The Perfect Art of Modern Dancing. London, New York, Butterick Publishing Co, 1894. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05029200/>.