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Book/Printed Material The fashionable dancer's casket; or, The ball-room instructor. A new and splendid work on dancing, etiquette, deportment, and the toilet Ball-room instructor

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Title

  • The fashionable dancer's casket; or, The ball-room instructor. A new and splendid work on dancing, etiquette, deportment, and the toilet

Other Title

  • Ball-room instructor

Summary

  • Although Charles Durang was a well-known Philadelphia dancing teacher and the son of famed American dancer John Durang, very little of this manual originates from the pen of the author. He acknowledges that the dances contained in the book are by the "celebrated teachers of Paris and London." Additionally, the sections on etiquette, deportment, and dress stem from "Mrs. Henderson's treatise." The manual includes descriptions of the popular ballroom dances of the day--quadrilles, polka, waltz, schottisch, gorlitza, and Cellarius waltz.

Names

  • Durang, Charles

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia, Fisher & Brother [c1856]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • viii, 9-192 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 12 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .D94

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001943

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:

Durang, Charles. The fashionable dancer's casket; or, The ball-room instructor. A new and splendid work on dancing, etiquette, deportment, and the toilet. [Philadelphia, Fisher & Brother, 1856] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001943/.

APA citation style:

Durang, C. (1856) The fashionable dancer's casket; or, The ball-room instructor. A new and splendid work on dancing, etiquette, deportment, and the toilet. [Philadelphia, Fisher & Brother] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001943/.

MLA citation style:

Durang, Charles. The fashionable dancer's casket; or, The ball-room instructor. A new and splendid work on dancing, etiquette, deportment, and the toilet. [Philadelphia, Fisher & Brother, 1856] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001943/>.