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Dancing Without an Instructor (Prof. Wilkinson, ca. 1904)
Publisher: Prof. Wilkinson / Drake & Co. "Popular Information at a Popular Price" series (50 cents postpaid; uniform with The National Dream Book by Mme. Claire Rougemont, The Twentieth Century Guide to Etiquette by L. W. Sheldon, The Zingara Fortune Teller by a Gypsy Sphere, Hoffmann's Tricks with Cards/Dice/Coins, How to be Beautiful by Grace Shirley, The Key to Hypnotism by Robert G. Ellsworth M.D., The Twentieth Century Letter Writer / Lovers Guide / Book of Toasts). Source: archive.org identifier `dancingwithoutin00wilk` (Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library copy; djvu OCR; ~4,975-line OCR text). Pocket-format Edwardian American social-dance manual covering Five Positions, Two-Step Slide, Grand March (5 evolutions: File / Column / Platoons / Arbor / Serpentine), Square Dances (Plain Quadrille; Lancers; Saratoga Lancers; Waltz Lancers; Caledonians; Glide Caledonians; Waltz Quadrille No. 1 & 2; Prince Imperial Quadrille; Parisian Varieties; National Guard Quadrille; Additional Quadrille Figures: Basket, Nine-Pin, Minuet, Star, Cheat, Jig, Sociable), Contra Dances (Virginia Reel, Pop Goes the Weasel, Spanish Dance, Sicilian Circle), Round Dances (Waltz, Glide Waltz, Two-Step, Galop, Polka, Polka Mazourka, Schottische, Military Schottische, Highland Schottische, Racquet, La Bohemienne, Berlin, Yorke, Caprice, Redowa, Varsoviana), Half-Time Dancing, and the Cotillion (the German) with 40+ figures (Flower, Magic Hat, Scarf, Follow My Leader, Ping Pong, Toast, Umbrella, Signal of Distress, Chair, Forfeits, Puss in the Corner, Thread the Needle, Kneeling Knight, Mask, Blind Man's Buff, Auction, Gay Deceiver, Rope, Fan, Basket-Ring-Flower, Inscriptions, Inconstants, Columns, Carnival, Handkerchief Chase, Cards, Scissors to Grind, Skaters, Spiral, Pyramid, Grand Round, Star and Circle, Double Pastourelle, Labyrinth, Letter Carrier, Serpent, Pursuit, Changing Star, Virginia Reel, Double Quadrille, Final Round). Documents the early-1900s reduction of the active social-dance core to "the Waltz, the Two-Step and the Lancers" (Introduction) at the moment when the Two-Step had displaced the Polka as the popular novelty. Distinct from the LOC-1869-WILKINSON (W.C. Wilkinson) temperance pamphlet of the same surname.Year: 1904Family: wilkinson-dwaiCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Prof. Wilkinson / Drake & Co. "Popular Information at a Popular Price" series (50 cents postpaid; uniform with The National Dream Book by Mme. Claire Rougemont, The Twentieth Century Guide to Etiquette by L. W. Sheldon, The Zingara Fortune Teller by a Gypsy Sphere, Hoffmann's Tricks with Cards/Dice/Coins, How to be Beautiful by Grace Shirley, The Key to Hypnotism by Robert G. Ellsworth M.D., The Twentieth Century Letter Writer / Lovers Guide / Book of Toasts). Source: archive.org identifier `dancingwithoutin00wilk` (Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library copy; djvu OCR; ~4,975-line OCR text). Pocket-format Edwardian American social-dance manual covering Five Positions, Two-Step Slide, Grand March (5 evolutions: File / Column / Platoons / Arbor / Serpentine), Square Dances (Plain Quadrille; Lancers; Saratoga Lancers; Waltz Lancers; Caledonians; Glide Caledonians; Waltz Quadrille No. 1 & 2; Prince Imperial Quadrille; Parisian Varieties; National Guard Quadrille; Additional Quadrille Figures: Basket, Nine-Pin, Minuet, Star, Cheat, Jig, Sociable), Contra Dances (Virginia Reel, Pop Goes the Weasel, Spanish Dance, Sicilian Circle), Round Dances (Waltz, Glide Waltz, Two-Step, Galop, Polka, Polka Mazourka, Schottische, Military Schottische, Highland Schottische, Racquet, La Bohemienne, Berlin, Yorke, Caprice, Redowa, Varsoviana), Half-Time Dancing, and the Cotillion (the German) with 40+ figures (Flower, Magic Hat, Scarf, Follow My Leader, Ping Pong, Toast, Umbrella, Signal of Distress, Chair, Forfeits, Puss in the Corner, Thread the Needle, Kneeling Knight, Mask, Blind Man's Buff, Auction, Gay Deceiver, Rope, Fan, Basket-Ring-Flower, Inscriptions, Inconstants, Columns, Carnival, Handkerchief Chase, Cards, Scissors to Grind, Skaters, Spiral, Pyramid, Grand Round, Star and Circle, Double Pastourelle, Labyrinth, Letter Carrier, Serpent, Pursuit, Changing Star, Virginia Reel, Double Quadrille, Final Round). Documents the early-1900s reduction of the active social-dance core to "the Waltz, the Two-Step and the Lancers" (Introduction) at the moment when the Two-Step had displaced the Polka as the popular novelty. Distinct from the LOC-1869-WILKINSON (W.C. Wilkinson) temperance pamphlet of the same surname. (1904). Imported from local collection.