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Book/Printed Material A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. Hillgrove's complete guide to the art of dancing

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Title

  • A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc.

Other Title

  • Hillgrove's complete guide to the art of dancing

Summary

  • New York dancing master Hillgrove acknowledges that he has "availed himself of all the books from which he might elicit any valuable information." Indeed, very little of the manual is original. Divided into six parts, Hillgrove's manual discusses the benefits of dance, dress, deportment and etiquette in the ballroom and the supper room. The second part focuses on positions of the feet and bows and courtesies, and provides exercises for the feet and legs. The third and fourth parts discuss the quadrille and provide many figures; the fifth part is devoted to round dances such as the waltz, polka, schottisch, galop, and polka mazurka. The last section focuses on more quadrille figures and other group dances such as the "Virginia Reel," "Money Musk," and "College Hornpipe."

Names

  • Hillgrove, Thomas.

Created / Published

  • New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [c1863]

Headings

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

Notes

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

Medium

  • 237 p. incl. front., illus. 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .H63

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 33022405

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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:

Hillgrove, Thomas. A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. [New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863] Web.. https://lccn.loc.gov/33022405.

APA citation style:

Hillgrove, T. (1863) A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. [New York, Dick & Fitzgerald] [Web.] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/33022405.

MLA citation style:

Hillgrove, Thomas. A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. [New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863] Web.. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <lccn.loc.gov/33022405>.