Add to ORKGThis manual suggests that anyone can learn to dance without the aid of a teacher. After providing a short discussion on organizing balls, appropriate dress, and etiquette, the book focuses on the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrilles, polka, schottisch, polka mazurka, and varsoviana. This "do it yourself" mentality was common during the late nineteenth century. This particular dance manual was reissued in 1876 under the title: Offenbach's dancing without a master
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
Although much of the material in this manual is borrowed from the dance writings of Charles Durang, ...
This is a compilation of previously published materials on the subject of nineteenth-century ballroo...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The ball-room guide is not...
Designed for people who never learned to dance either because of bashfulness or lack of time or mone...
This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which...
This manual was reissued in 1858 under the title Hillgrove's scholars' companion and ball-room guide...
The format for this manual is typical of nineteenth-century dance treatises. It begins with a short ...
This is one of several manuals credited to the well-known American inventor, Elias Howe. Like many n...
This manual is designed as a self-teacher for those who cannot or, according to the author, are unwi...
This manual begins, as do others of the period, with a general introduction that covers the necessit...
Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book pro...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and its contents are typical of simil...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials. The guide begins with a brief descri...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and includes standard advice on etiqu...
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
Although much of the material in this manual is borrowed from the dance writings of Charles Durang, ...
This is a compilation of previously published materials on the subject of nineteenth-century ballroo...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The ball-room guide is not...
Designed for people who never learned to dance either because of bashfulness or lack of time or mone...
This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which...
This manual was reissued in 1858 under the title Hillgrove's scholars' companion and ball-room guide...
The format for this manual is typical of nineteenth-century dance treatises. It begins with a short ...
This is one of several manuals credited to the well-known American inventor, Elias Howe. Like many n...
This manual is designed as a self-teacher for those who cannot or, according to the author, are unwi...
This manual begins, as do others of the period, with a general introduction that covers the necessit...
Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book pro...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and its contents are typical of simil...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials. The guide begins with a brief descri...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and includes standard advice on etiqu...
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
Although much of the material in this manual is borrowed from the dance writings of Charles Durang, ...
This is a compilation of previously published materials on the subject of nineteenth-century ballroo...