Cotillion figures
By: by Joel H. Watkins.
Publisher: The Neale Publishing Co.
Published: 1911
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: German (Dance) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Notation for Dance.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: 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.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.