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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Dancing, as a means of physical education; with remarks on deformities, and their prevention and cure. By Mrs. Alfred Webster ...

Webster, Alfred, Mrs.

OTHER TITLES
On dancing: its uses and abuses

CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, D. Bogue, 1851.

SUMMARY
In her strong defense of dance and its application to female physical education, Mrs. Webster declares that dancing as exercise "is the very best safeguard against the evils of over mental education." While she approves of calisthenics and various mechanical apparatus--including swings and pulleys and a "prone couch"--she delivers a stinging rebuke regarding the wearing of corsets.

SUBJECTS
Dance.
Dance Instruction and Physical Culture.

MEDIUM
1 p.l., 56 p. 22 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1599 .W4

DIGITAL ID
musdi 165 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.165

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