Social dancing of to-day
By: demonstrated by Mr. John Murray Anderson; with text, twenty-nine diagrams and fifty-two illustrations from photographs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney.
Contributors: Kinney, Margaret West, b. 1872.; Anderson, John Murray.; Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938.
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Published: 1914
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals; Notation for Dance
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: 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.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
Reprinted with slight changes from: The dance; its place in art and life, by Troy and Margaret West Kinney.