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Prof. L.E. Dare's Fashionable Dancing Manual (5th Ann. of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing), Harrisburg PA, 1884
Publisher: Prof. L.E. Dare / Second and Locust Streets, Harrisburg PA. Printed by Lane S. Hart, Harrisburg, 1884. Source: Richard Powers collection (identifier POWERS/1884_Dare.PDF). Author is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing. 17-page pocket manual containing: (i) extensive Etiquette of the Ball Room (1.5 pages — introductions, dressing-room conduct, engagement bookkeeping, ladies-first principle, dress code: black tailcoat + white gloves + light slippers); (ii) Quadrille (5 figures with galop transitions); (iii) Plain Quadrille alternate finale figures — New Year / Basket / Coquette; (iv) Celebrated Opera Reel (6 couples); (v) French Four (line-of-four contra); (vi) Irish er Woman / Irish Trot (3-couple progressive contra); (vii) Virginia Reel (5 figures + finale, 6 couples); (viii) New Society Quadrille (4 figures); (ix) French Lanciers Quadrille (5 figures with chassez and form-lines transitions); (x) Double Lanciers (gallop-and-march modification of French Lanciers); (xi) Saratoga Lanciers (5 figures; composed by the Society of Professors of Dancing, New York); (xii) Loomis Minuet Lanciers (5 figures, with grand-square finale); (xiii) Waltz Quadrille (5 figures with heel-and-toe and waltz-round codas); (xiv) Schottische Quadrille (5 figures with jetta-vollet balance); (xv) Asher's Mazourka Quadrille (5 introductions + 5 figures using Redowa + chasse-Redowa + swing corners passes); (xvi) Lawn Tennis Quadrilles — 'By the Professors of Dancing of New York' (5 numbers: Measuring the Ground / Varied Chains / Rounds / Double Pastourelle / The Net). A complete late-1884 American ballroom manual bridging the Dodworth 1878/1882 New York authority and the Carpenter 1879 Philadelphia pedagogy; fills the Harrisburg PA regional gap in the Pennsylvania corpus alongside Dodworth-Philadelphia and Carpenter-Philadelphia. The Lawn Tennis Quadrille entry is one of the earliest printed attestations of the 1884 NYC-Professors' novelty (predating Howe 1882's H-REG-QUAD-F0392 by name but with distinct numbering/figure structure) and the Asher's Mazourka Quadrille entry is distinct from the 1894 Asher treatise (LOC-1894-ASHER). The Saratoga Lanciers attribution to the Society of Professors of Dancing New York preserves the organizational lineage that post-Civil-War NYC dancing-master associations claimed over the form.Year: 1884Family: dareCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Prof. L.E. Dare / Second and Locust Streets, Harrisburg PA. Printed by Lane S. Hart, Harrisburg, 1884. Source: Richard Powers collection (identifier POWERS/1884_Dare.PDF). Author is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing. 17-page pocket manual containing: (i) extensive Etiquette of the Ball Room (1.5 pages — introductions, dressing-room conduct, engagement bookkeeping, ladies-first principle, dress code: black tailcoat + white gloves + light slippers); (ii) Quadrille (5 figures with galop transitions); (iii) Plain Quadrille alternate finale figures — New Year / Basket / Coquette; (iv) Celebrated Opera Reel (6 couples); (v) French Four (line-of-four contra); (vi) Irish er Woman / Irish Trot (3-couple progressive contra); (vii) Virginia Reel (5 figures + finale, 6 couples); (viii) New Society Quadrille (4 figures); (ix) French Lanciers Quadrille (5 figures with chassez and form-lines transitions); (x) Double Lanciers (gallop-and-march modification of French Lanciers); (xi) Saratoga Lanciers (5 figures; composed by the Society of Professors of Dancing, New York); (xii) Loomis Minuet Lanciers (5 figures, with grand-square finale); (xiii) Waltz Quadrille (5 figures with heel-and-toe and waltz-round codas); (xiv) Schottische Quadrille (5 figures with jetta-vollet balance); (xv) Asher's Mazourka Quadrille (5 introductions + 5 figures using Redowa + chasse-Redowa + swing corners passes); (xvi) Lawn Tennis Quadrilles — 'By the Professors of Dancing of New York' (5 numbers: Measuring the Ground / Varied Chains / Rounds / Double Pastourelle / The Net). A complete late-1884 American ballroom manual bridging the Dodworth 1878/1882 New York authority and the Carpenter 1879 Philadelphia pedagogy; fills the Harrisburg PA regional gap in the Pennsylvania corpus alongside Dodworth-Philadelphia and Carpenter-Philadelphia. The Lawn Tennis Quadrille entry is one of the earliest printed attestations of the 1884 NYC-Professors' novelty (predating Howe 1882's H-REG-QUAD-F0392 by name but with distinct numbering/figure structure) and the Asher's Mazourka Quadrille entry is distinct from the 1894 Asher treatise (LOC-1894-ASHER). The Saratoga Lanciers attribution to the Society of Professors of Dancing New York preserves the organizational lineage that post-Civil-War NYC dancing-master associations claimed over the form. (1884). Imported from local collection.