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Book/Printed Material A treatise on the elements of dancing Elements of dancing

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Title

  • A treatise on the elements of dancing

Other Title

  • Elements of dancing

Summary

  • Many manuals compiled from previously published sources under a variety of author names were aimed at an ever-expanding group of people who could not avail themselves of a dance master. This work strives to instruct in a plain and explicit manner, making no attempts to discuss dance "technically and methodically." The manual is structured as a series of lessons. For example, lesson one of eleven on the waltz requires the reader to begin by being "seated upright in a chair." The manual also covers the polka, glide polka, heel and toe polka, schottisch, quadrilles, and the German (also known as the cotillon).

Names

  • Sichore, T. Erp

Created / Published

  • San Francisco, The Bancroft Co., 1891.

Headings

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

Medium

  • vi, p., 1 l., 9-123 p. illus. 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .B87

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05035059

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:

Sichore, T. Erp. A Treatise on the Elements of Dancing. San Francisco, The Bancroft Co, 1891. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05035059/.

APA citation style:

Sichore, T. E. (1891) A Treatise on the Elements of Dancing. San Francisco, The Bancroft Co. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05035059/.

MLA citation style:

Sichore, T. Erp. A Treatise on the Elements of Dancing. San Francisco, The Bancroft Co, 1891. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05035059/>.