Saturday, April 5, 2008

Entertainment - Dances

Dances of Colonial America, by Kate Van Winkle Keller and Charles Cyril Hendrickson: http://www.colonialmusic.org/Resource/Danctyps.htm#Main%20Dance%20Types
  • list of 8 dances
  • brief history of dances in Early America
  • descriptions of dances include settings, origins, steps and movements
  • mostly easy to read, however, names of steps/movements such as: allemande turns, coupé, battement, jeté, pirouette, pas de sissone, and pas tombé were not defined/described.

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