Roberts' manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room containing a review and full description of all the modern dances, &c

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing FASHIONABLE DANCING.

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing “True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.” Pope .

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing ROBERTS' (Henry) MANUAL OF FASHIONABLE DANCING AND Dade Merum for the Ball-Room CONTAINING A REVIEW AND FULL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE MODERN DANCES. &c. 15.18 9550 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 90794 FEB 22...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing GV1751 .R65 MELBOURNE: PRINTED BY WALKER, MAY, AND CO., 9 MACKILLOP STREET.

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing MESSIEURS & MISS ROBERTS, Professors of DANCING, CALISTHENICS, “Maintien et de Bonne Tenne.” 87 COLLINS STREET EAST, MELBOURNE, AND 123 WILLIAM STREET, SYDNEY.

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing CONTENTS. PAGE Address to the Reader 1 Introduction 5 Renaissance of the Dance 9 Dancing of the Ball-Room and the Theatre 13 Preliminary Exercises.—The Salutation 18 Ball-Room Dances.—General Observations 23 Quadrille Francais;...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing vi The Polka-Mazurka 83 La Sauteuse; or, New Spring Watlz 84 Observations on the Waltz 84 La Pas de Soldats 86 The Polonaise 88 The Polka 89 The Steps of the Polka...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing vii No. 12. Les Cartes—The Cards (Waltz, Polka, Mazurka) 108 No. 13. La Trompeuse — The Deceiver (Waltz, Polka) 108 No. 14. Le Miroir—The Mirror (Polka, Waltz, Mazurka) 109 No. 15. Les...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing viii Reel of Tulloch 125 Highland Reel 126 Circle Waltz 126 Spanish Waltz 127 Circassian Circle 127 Long Live the Queen 128 Sir Roger de Coverley 128 General Remarks 130 The Orchestra...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing Fashionable Dancing. Address to the Reader. THE origin of the accomplishment of dancing has never been traced; probably it is coeval with legs and feet, for there is not a nation on...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 2 may be said of most pastimes; many a foot goes astray to a slower measure than the lively dance demands. Upon the whole, we believe that it is the light heart,...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 3 sound of Nero's fiddle, would have been more honestly employed in “setting” to a double-handed reel. What an unexceptionable recreation for the members of a state! How prostrate all the petty...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 4 when he met his father in the canoe? Or that other cruel savage country-dance of his enemies a few minutes before, when it was hands all round to the tune of...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing Introduction. “True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.” Pope . THIS volume is intended to supply a want which has long...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 6 London and Paris, would be ridiculous in the extreme. In constructing this work I am deeply indebted to one of the ablest and most eminent members of the profession who has...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 7 distinguished personages has authorized their introduction. The Cotillon—that marked feature of every private ball in England and on the Continent—has been the object of my peculiar attention. I have succeeded in...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 8 many distinguished dancers and teachers, who kindly recall to me that they were formed under my eyes, is surely more than enough to recompense me for the assiduities and fatigues of...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing Renaissance of the Dance. IF any one will compare the physiognomy of a ball of the present day with a réunion dansante of only a few years ago, he will, doubtless, be...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 10 enchanting and spirit-stirring music of the present day. “And thou, sweet Music, Dancing's only life, The ear's sole happiness, the air's best speech, Loadstone of fellowship, charming rod of strife, The...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 11 with the excitement of gymnastics, billiards, or cards, and the many selfish recreations that are provided for those who do not find pastimes for themselves; not that I would detract from...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 12 the same. To cite, for instance, the most popular of all modern dances, the Waltz and Galop, at first so cavilled at, but now so generally adopted. In what assembly do...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing Dancing of the Ball-Room and the Theatre. THE books on dancing published in London, Paris, and elsewhere are numerous, and would alone form a tolerable library. The greater part of these treatises...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 14 the ballet steps and figures executed by professional dancers. The dances of society have often facilitated this confusion of ideas with respect to them. It would, indeed, be difficult to cite...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 15 “ Qui peut le plus peut le moins ” may well, in respect to dancing, fail of an absolute rigour. In effect, why should not the dancing of the ball-room differ...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 16 of the theatre, with all the perfection of the art? Well may we ask, then, if, as is often said, it is caprice of fashion which has caused these studied dances...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 17 It is with regret I have to state that many of the teachers in Australia, still adhere to the antiquated notions. At present the professor who has to form dancers for...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing Preliminary Exercises.—The Salutation. IT would be an error to suppose that the modern dances, despite their apparent facility of acquirement, can in the least dispense with those preliminary exercises which give ease...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 19 excluded from a finished education with impunity. Many persons have been under the impression that a knowledge of the figures of a Quadrille, which might easily be acquired in two or...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 20 parents, or above all pupils, who might be tempted to judge us in these days by the methods of the ancient professors. Fortunately the instruction of the dance has had its...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 21 dances of former times resemble those pieces of ancient operas which have disappeared from the repertory, but are now executed by our youthful singers to render the voice flexible, and form...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 22 Before concluding my remarks under this heading, I should not be doing my duty did I not draw particular attention to the Salutation , by which is understood the bow and...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing Ball-Room Dances. BEFORE commencing a description of these dances, I hope to set at rest a subject which frequently causes considerable inconvenience to dancers—that end from which to commence all figure dances,the...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 24 of the eyes of the body rather than those of the mind. However, I shall endeavour to describe minutely the acknowledged steps and figures, also the style and character of each...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 25 strictly avoided ; the gentleman should turn his partner with both hands. I shall now describe the figures of this ever-agreeable dance. The first figure, ungracefully named Le Pantalon , consists...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 26 between them, who then returns between the ladies, all passing to their places. Balancez . La Pastourelle , the gentleman leads his partner forward, the lady passes to the opposite gentleman,...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 27 QUADRILLE FRANCAIS, OR FIRST SET. FIRST FIGURE— Le Pantalon . The couple at the top is designated in all Quadrilles, No. 1 ; their vis-à-vis , No. 2 ; the couple...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 28 the figure with opposite lady. Side couples repeat in the same manner. Some persons still dance Double L'Eté. To prevent confusion it is, therefore, necessary to arrange with your vis-à-vis which...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 29 the first gentleman to pass between them to opposite side ; ladies advance, and first gentleman passes between ; each finish in places (eight steps). Balancez . Second gentleman and side...

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Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room | Fashionable dancing 30 The following is the old figure which is still danced in certain circles:— Grand rond .—First and second gentlemen with their partners advance and retire, with galop step (four bars) cross...

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