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Title

  • Ball-room dancing without a master, and complete guide to the etiquette, toilet, dress and management of the ball-room; with all the principal dances in popular use

Other Title

  • Dancing without a master
  • Ball-room dancing without a master

Summary

  • This manual suggests that anyone can learn to dance without the aid of a teacher. After providing a short discussion on organizing balls, appropriate dress, and etiquette, the book focuses on the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrilles, polka, schottisch, polka mazurka, and varsoviana. This "do it yourself" mentality was common during the late nineteenth century. This particular dance manual was reissued in 1876 under the title: Offenbach's dancing without a master.

Created / Published

  • [New York, Hurst & Co., c1872]

Headings

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

Medium

  • 1 p.l., [5]-61 p. illus. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .B19

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05039484

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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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.)

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Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master, and Complete Guide to the Etiquette, Toilet, Dress and Management of the Ball-Room; With All the Principal Dances in Popular Use. [New York, Hurst & Co, 1872] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/05039484/.

APA citation style:

(1872) Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master, and Complete Guide to the Etiquette, Toilet, Dress and Management of the Ball-Room; With All the Principal Dances in Popular Use. [New York, Hurst & Co] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05039484/.

MLA citation style:

Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master, and Complete Guide to the Etiquette, Toilet, Dress and Management of the Ball-Room; With All the Principal Dances in Popular Use. [New York, Hurst & Co, 1872] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05039484/>.