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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances, as executed at the private academies of the author. By Edward Ferrero.
OTHER TITLES
Art of dancing
CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, The author, 1859.
SUMMARY
Although much of the material in this manual is borrowed from the dance writings of Charles Durang, it remains an important source for the study of mid-nineteenth-century ballroom dance. Unlike other contemporary writers, Ferrero devotes more than eighty pages to the origins of dance and a history of European and Native American dance. The remaining part of the manual concerns ballroom etiquette and descriptions of numerous dances including the quadrille, waltz, polka, schottisch, varsovienne, polka mazurka, and galop. Ferrero gives directions for more than eighty figures of the cotillon, a group dance performed as a series of party games. Some of the figures include "The scarf," "The glass of wine," "The sea during a storm," "The four chairs," and "The rounds thwarted." The manual concludes with music for twenty-three dances.
NOTES
Music: 103 pages.
SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance music--19th century.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Music for Dance.
MEDIUM
xii, 13-181, 103 p. illus. 19 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .F5
DIGITAL ID
musdi 067 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.067
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 143) - Waltz
(Video clip for p. 144) - Polka
(Video clip for p. 146) - Schottisch
(Video clip for p. 147) - Varsovienne
(Video clip for p. 148) - Polka mazurka
(Video clip for p. 152) - Five step waltz
(Video clip for p. 153) - Gitana waltz
(Video clip for p. 153) - Zingirella
(Video clip for p. 169) - The Fan, from the German
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