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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals


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A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. By Thomas Hillgrove ...

Hillgrove, Thomas.

OTHER TITLES
Hillgrove's complete guide to the art of dancing

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [c1863]

SUMMARY
New York dancing master Hillgrove acknowledges that he has "availed himself of all the books from which he might elicit any valuable information." Indeed, very little of the manual is original. Divided into six parts, Hillgrove's manual discusses the benefits of dance, dress, deportment and etiquette in the ballroom and the supper room. The second part focuses on positions of the feet and bows and courtesies, and provides exercises for the feet and legs. The third and fourth parts discuss the quadrille and provide many figures; the fifth part is devoted to round dances such as the waltz, polka, schottisch, galop, and polka mazurka. The last section focuses on more quadrille figures and other group dances such as the "Virginia Reel," "Money Musk," and "College Hornpipe."

SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Etiquette--United States.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

MEDIUM
237 p. incl. front., illus. 17 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .H63

DIGITAL ID
musdi 093 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.093

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 162) - Polka
(Video clip for p. 163) - Schottisch
(Video clip for p. 168) - La Esmeralda
(Video clip for p. 173) - Varsovienne
(Video clip for p. 175) - Polka mazurka
(Video clip for p. 176-178) - Plain waltz
(Video clip for p. 187) - La Carlowitzka (also known as Gitana waltz)
(Video clip for p. 188) - Zingirella

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