Coulon's hand-book
Subtitle: containing all the last new and fashionable dances, and also some important remarks on dancing & deportment ...
By: By Coulon ...
Publisher: A. Hammond & Co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Coulon's hand book of dancing; Hand book of dancing
Description: This is an expanded version of a manual published under the same title in 1866. It is not known whether or not famed Paris dancing master Coulon actually participated in the assembly of this manual. Most of the manual is a compilation from earlier sources. Demonstrating a growing late nineteenth-century interest in physical education, this new version adds a series of exercises to be performed with poles, dumb-bells, and elastics. Additional exercises emphasize walking, running, and jumping. The manual describes the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrille, waltz, and polka.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
"New edition."--Pref.