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Casani's Self-Tutor of Ballroom Dancing — With Sixty-five Photographs and Seventeen Diagrams (Santos Casani, 1927)
Publisher: Santos Casani (b. 1893, South Africa) / Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney, 1927 (first published 1927). 'The Leading Authority on Modern Ballroom Dancing'. Foreword by George Grossmith. Photographs by Foulsham & Banfield of Santos Casani and Jose Lennard. Source: archive.org identifier casanisselftutor00casa (NYU Music Department copy). Casani was proprietor of Casani's School of Dancing, Regent Street (London) — the largest dance studio in the world per the Foreword — and the only ballroom teacher engaged for regular BBC broadcasts and for talking films / Eve's Film Review. Contents: 17 chapters covering Permanent Principles, Slow Fox-Trot, New (English) Waltz, New French Tango, Yale or Yale Blues, Flat Charleston, Black Bottom, Trebla, One Step, Quick Step (Quick Fox-Trot), Paso Doble, and Blues, plus advice to beginners / advanced pupils / prospective teachers / teachers. Captures the 1927 English ballroom syllabus at the moment of post-1924 ISTD-style standardisation, distinct from the Murray (US) and Frank (UK 1924) parallel codifications.Year: 1927Family: casaniCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Santos Casani (b. 1893, South Africa) / Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney, 1927 (first published 1927). 'The Leading Authority on Modern Ballroom Dancing'. Foreword by George Grossmith. Photographs by Foulsham & Banfield of Santos Casani and Jose Lennard. Source: archive.org identifier casanisselftutor00casa (NYU Music Department copy). Casani was proprietor of Casani's School of Dancing, Regent Street (London) — the largest dance studio in the world per the Foreword — and the only ballroom teacher engaged for regular BBC broadcasts and for talking films / Eve's Film Review. Contents: 17 chapters covering Permanent Principles, Slow Fox-Trot, New (English) Waltz, New French Tango, Yale or Yale Blues, Flat Charleston, Black Bottom, Trebla, One Step, Quick Step (Quick Fox-Trot), Paso Doble, and Blues, plus advice to beginners / advanced pupils / prospective teachers / teachers. Captures the 1927 English ballroom syllabus at the moment of post-1924 ISTD-style standardisation, distinct from the Murray (US) and Frank (UK 1924) parallel codifications. (1927). Imported from local collection.