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4.4 How can I learn more about dance? Books? Videos?

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This article is from the Dance FAQ, by eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) with numerous contributions by others.

4.4 How can I learn more about dance? Books? Videos?





**Videos**


Look in the Dancers' Archive in the `books' and `videos'
subdirectories:
ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/nonprofits/dance/
and
ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/nonprofits/dance/
. You can find reviews of instructions videos for swing, country, and
shag on
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/videos/faq.html
.



**Books**


See for ballroom related material
ftp://ftp.std.com/nonprofits/dance/books/
, and for Craig Hutchinson's Swing Dancer:
ftp://ftp.std.com/nonprofits/dance/books/
.


Information about country dances in 19th century England and about
formal balls can be found in
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew
by: Daniel Pool
Simon and Schuster, New York 1993
More about 19th century dance can be found in
From the ballroom to hell
grace and folly in nineteenth-century dance
by: Elizabeth Aldrich
Northwestern University Press
Evanston, Illinois 1991

 

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