The Ball-room instructer [!]; containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances ...
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- The Ball-room instructer [!]; containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances ...
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- 1841
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The Ball-room instructer [!]; containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances ...
Year: 1841
This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares 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 and it begins with a discussion on etiquette followed by 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.
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