Dancing, as a means of physical education
Subtitle: with remarks on deformities, and their prevention and cure.
By: By Mrs. Alfred Webster ...
Publisher: D. Bogue
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Dance.; Dance Instruction and Physical Culture.
Other titles: On dancing: its uses and abuses
Description: In her strong defense of dance and its application to female physical education, Mrs. Webster declares that dancing as exercise "is the very best safeguard against the evils of over mental education."  While she approves of calisthenics and various mechanical apparatus--including swings and pulleys and a "prone couch"--she delivers a stinging rebuke regarding the wearing of corsets.
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