Nouveau manuel complet de la danse
Subtitle: ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours
By: par Blasis ...
Contributors: Vergnaud, Paul, tr.; Gardel, Pierre, 1758-1840.; Lemaître, dancing master, ed.
Edition: Nouv. éd., entièrement refondue d'après la traduction de P. Vergnaud, revue par Gardel, et augm. des danses de société ... par M. Lemaître ...
Series: Manuels-Roret
Publisher: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Ballet; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Encyclopédie-Roret, Danse
Description: Although attributed to Italian dancer, choreographer, and writer Carlo Blasis, this manual contains an abridgement of Blasis's writing on the subject of social dance as published in The Code of Terpsichore (1830). The manual's discussion of specific dances is augmented by M. Lemaitre and includes quadrilles, the waltz, polka, schottisch, polka-mazurka, redowa and cotillon.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.