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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals


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Cotillion figures, by Joel H. Watkins.

Watkins, Joel H.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, The Neale Publishing Co., 1911.

SUMMARY
Red and black diagrams are utilized to show the floor patterns of more than twenty figures for the cotillon (also known as the German), a series of party game figures performed to music and an important staple of the ballroom repertory during the last half of the nineteenth century. The figures in Watkins book are, in fact, many of the same figures used in the grand march.

SUBJECTS
German (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.

MEDIUM
63 p. diagrs. 16 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1757 .W3

DIGITAL ID
musdi 163 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.163

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