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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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The Ball-room instructer [sic]; containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances, with illustrations.

OTHER TITLES
Ball-room instructer

Ball-room instructor

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, Huestis & Craft, 1841.

SUMMARY
This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which is interesting to the world of dancing" [p. 5]. In fact, like many nineteenth-century dance manuals, the text is heavily borrowed from numerous sources and compiled by a publisher. Its format is common for this type of manual. It begins with a discussion on etiquette followed by a description of quadrilles--popular group dances performed by four couples facing in a square. Although the waltz was a staple of the mid-nineteenth-century ballroom, it is not discussed in this manual.

NOTES
Source: Source unknown.

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

MEDIUM
46 p. incl. front., illus. 13 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1763 .B18

DIGITAL ID
musdi 225 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.225

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