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Book/Printed Material The dancer's guide and ball-room companion

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Title

  • The dancer's guide and ball-room companion

Summary

  • This manual is a compilation of previously published materials. The guide begins with a brief description of the necessary arrangements for a ball, appropriate dress for men and women, and ballroom etiquette. The work continues with dances such as the quadrille, waltz, varsoviana, polka, schottisch, "Cellarius Waltz," and dances for larger groups of dancers--"Spanish Dance," "La Tempete," and "Sir Roger de Coverley."

Created / Published

  • New York, Frank M. Reed [c1874]

Headings

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

Medium

  • 27 p. 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .D17

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001944

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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The Dancer's Guide and Ball-Room Companion. [New York, Frank M. Reed, 1874] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001944/.

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(1874) The Dancer's Guide and Ball-Room Companion. [New York, Frank M. Reed] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001944/.

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The Dancer's Guide and Ball-Room Companion. [New York, Frank M. Reed, 1874] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001944/>.