Public domainPractitioner accountWritten from inside the tradition
The Art of Stage Dancing: The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
Ned Wayburn · Ned Wayburn Studios of Stage Dancing · 1925
Why this source matters
Wayburn staged the Ziegfeld Follies and effectively invented the American precision chorus line; this is his own training manual, with chapters on tap, musical comedy, acrobatic and adagio dancing and on drilling a chorus — the direct ancestor text for the Rockettes. Free and out of copyright.