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Social dancing of to-day

By Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938, Kinney, Margaret West, b. 1872, Anderson, John Murray. Published 1914. Free to read and download from Internet Archive.

Description

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Reprinted with slight changes from: The dance; its place in art and life, by Troy and Margaret West Kinney This is one of the most valuable dance manuals for the study of social dance practices during the ragtime era. The manual is enhanced by twenty six photographs of several important exhibition dance teams (for example, Irene and Vernon Castle; Maurice and Florence Walden). More than thirty steps are described including the one step, tango, Brazilian maxixe, and the hesitation waltz

Author
Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938, Kinney, Margaret West, b. 1872, Anderson, John Murray
Date
1914
Publisher
New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Language
eng
Copyright
Public domain in the US

Subjects

Ballroom dancingDance Instruction and Technical ManualsNotation for Dance

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