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From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth-Century Dance
'From The Ballroom To Hell' collects over one hundred little-known excerpts from dance, etiquette, beauty, and fashion manuals from roughly 1800-1890. It will be of great interest to dancers and dance historians, choreographers, and dramatists interested in accurately reproducing nineteenth-century dance scenes and the surrounding social mechanisms.
Paperback, 225 pages
Published
December 15th 1991
by Northwestern University Press
(first published 1894)
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A collection of excepts from dozens upon dozens of etiquette manuals on how 'civilized' people were to perform when out in society (American society that is). Great book. Quick read.
A hilarious anti-dancing tract from 1894 which claims that dancing will lead women to become prostitutes.
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