How And What To Dance

Why not use those slack hours until the next series of Strictly Come Dancing (or Dancing With The Stars) by brushing up on your ballroom technique? The Internet Archive have a copy of Geoffrey d'Egville's How and What to Dance (C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. 1919) which you can read online or download.

This is perhaps the only book on dance that you will ever need; it even includes chapters on Organising A Dance and Etiquette Of The Ball-Room. Be sure that at your dance you have a master of ceremonies, "who will be in supreme control on the day of the dance, settling all questions and disputes which may arise." I must be one of the few people who thinks that Bruce Forsyth doesn't do such a bad job as he usually manages a sour comment for any judge that oversteps the line.

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The Five Positions
from How And What To Dance