Book/Printed Material How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers
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Image 1 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... How To Dance
- Contributor: Tousey & Small
- Date: 1878
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Image 2 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ...
- Contributor: Tousey & Small
- Date: 1878
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Image 3 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... How To Dance. A COMPLETE BALL-ROOM AND PARTY GUIDE. CONTAINING ALL THE LATEST FIGURES, TOGETHER WITH OLD-FASHIONED AND CONTRA DANCES NOW IN GENERAL USE. ALSO A GUIDE TO BALLROOM ETIQUETTE, TOILETS, AND...
- Contributor: Tousey & Small
- Date: 1878
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Image 4 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... Gv1751 H8 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1878, by TOUSEY & SMALL, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington
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- Date: 1878
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Image 5 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 3 How To DANCE. Since society's earliest formation, one of the most favorite and graceful amusements has been dancing. it is sport par excellence in which both sexes can indulge with equal...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 6 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 4 The next is elegance of make and propriety of color. Fashion generally will determine the former, but the latter is to be left to individual taste. In the selection of colors,...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 7 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 5 increases their apparent hight. A chaplet or drooping wreath would. therefore, be preferable. White satin shoes are worn with light-colored dresses, and black or bronze with dark ones. The gloves should...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 8 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 6 rule should be adopted also in an assembly room, it being understood, however, that the introduction is for that evening only, after which the acquaintance ceases. In private parties introductions are...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 9 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 7 Do not give hints or inuendoes. Speak frankly or not at all. Nothing charms more than candor when united with good breeding. Do not speak in a loud tone, indulge in...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 10 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 8 When conversing with your partner, let it be done in a outer tone, avoiding affectation, frowning, quizzing, or the slightest indication of ill-temper, and, particularly, criticising the dress or appearance of...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 11 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 9 quadrille, you should accompany it with an inclination of the head in the manner of a salutation. When a gentleman accompanies a lady to a ball he will at once proceed...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 12 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 10 his name previous to an introduction, and mentioning that of the lady to him or not, as he may think proper. Persons unacquainted with the figures should not attempt to dance,...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 13 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 11 take part in its easy and elegant figures. Even an occasional blunder is of less consequence in this dance than in many others; for each personage is in some degree free...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 14 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 12 your partner, or make use of the ladies' chain, use seven walking steps, and bring the left foot up behind for the eighth. When you have to advance and retire, or...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 15 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 13 Trenise .—The top lady and her partner advance and refits, they then advance again, the gentleman leaving the lady opposite him. The two ladies cross to the opposite side. The top...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 16 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 14 sides outside first and second couples. All couples balance and turn. Ladies hands across, first right hand and then left, and back to places. Half promenade. First and second couples chaine...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 17 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 15 quadrille. But once having thoroughly mastered the figure, the dancer will never forget it, for we know of no tunes which so completely suggest the figure as the old-fashioned music of...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 18 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 16 the quadrille, where they join hands and promenade back to places. They then fall back into a line on each side, four gentlemen and four ladies facing one another (fourth eight...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 19 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 17 THE VIRGINIA REEL. Six or seven couples range themselves in two lines down the room, ladies on the right, gentlemen on the left; partners facing each other. The dance opens with...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 20 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 18 In this waltz the time is three-quarter: in each bar there are three steps in three beats of the time. The gentleman takes his partner around the waist, in the same...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 21 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 19 intended to refresh the memory of those who have learned it, but who, from its being so seldom danced, are likely to forget some one or mere of the movements Of...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 22 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 20 half turning at the same time, then two on the right, completing the round. Repeat this; resume the first step for two bars; and so on throughout. But the Valse à...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 23 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 21 The lady reverses the order of the feet. Relief from the fatigue of perpetual spinning around must be sought, not in promenading or executing the steps in straight lines—these methods are...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 24 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 22 POLKA REDOWA. This dance, from its simplicity and grace of movement, is a very popular one, and as the time is much slower than in any other, it is not quite...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 25 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 23 top and bottom couples walk to their places, and the side cuoples to theirs. All set to partners with the Valse step, and turn half around with right hands, finishing opposite...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 26 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 24 COUPLE DANCES. In all Couple Dances, before commencing, the gentleman places his right hand to the lady's waist, so as to form a perfect support—the lady places her right hand in...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 27 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 25 Second Figure.—The director of the dance leads the first lady again to her seat and presents her with a small hand mirror, into which she gazes. The director then introduces a...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 28 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 26 with the lady. This figure is repeated in the same manner as No. 4. Sixth Figure .—All form the same as for the Lancers last figure. The music and step is...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 29 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 27 Second Bar.—Slide your right foot to right; bring left foot up close behind it, as in the fifth position; make a glissade with your right foot, ending with your left in...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 30 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 28 Fall on the left foot, and make two glissades with the right (first bar.) Repeat, reversing order of feet (second bar.) Lady begins with her right foot as usual. The step...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 31 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 29 The dancers stand in two rows—ladies on one side, gentlemen on the other. First lady and gentleman dance down the middle and up again; then the lady passes down the dance...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 32 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 30 CAMPTOWN HORNPIPE. First couple down the outside, back—down the center (swing at the foot half around, (up the center (lady on the gentleman's side) and cast off—ladies chain—first couple balance and...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 33 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 31 This dance was formerly a great favorite at public balls, but is now very seldom introduced, on account of the rude manner of performing it. Instead of setting to their partners...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 34 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 32 FAVORITE AMERICAN COUNTRY DANCES. MONEY MUSK. First couple give the right hand, and swing one and a half around; then go below one couple and forward and back six; right hand...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 35 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 33 Balancez et tour des maims , all set to partners, and turn to places. (See Tour des mains .) Ballotez , do the same step four times without changing your place....
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- Date: 1878
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Image 36 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 34 Les dames donnent la main droite—gauche-à leurs cavaliers , ladies give the right—left—hands to partners. En avant deuw et en arrière , first lady and vis-à-vis gentleman advance and retire. To...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 37 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 35 Le Tiroir , first couple cross with hands joined to opposite couple's place, opposite couple crossing separately outside them; then cross back to places, same figure reversed. Tours des mains ,...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 38 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 36 in waltz position, changing the lady from the right to the left hand four times; four take hands around, pass the ladies from the left to the right hand four times,...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 39 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 37 line) four abreast, couples part at the foot and up abreast and each turn around opposite the next couple that was below them on starting; four on each side right and...
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- Date: 1878
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Image 40 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest ... 38 from the circle (which immediately re-closes), and perform a Waltz in the center. At a signal he stops, and his lady passes out of the circle. He selects another lady, with...
- Contributor: Tousey & Small
- Date: 1878
