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Feldman's How to Dance the One-Step by Adèle Collier (Dancing Partner of Robert Sielle) — Photographs by W. Barnard. B. Feldman & Co., London, 1919. Roland's Pianoforte Tutor Series No. 1126.
Publisher: B. Feldman & Co., 2, 3 & 4 Arthur Street, New Oxford Street, W.C.2, London. 'Roland's Pianoforte Tutor — The Best In The World' series, No. 1126. Price 6d. each. Part of Feldman's integrated sheet-music + dance-instruction publication family alongside Feldman's How to Dance the Boston Hesitation, Feldman's How to Dance the Fox-Trot (POWERS-1919-FELDMAN-FT already in corpus), and Feldman's Latest Fox-Trots (2/- net each). Author Adèle Collier explicitly credited as 'Dancing Partner of Robert Sielle'; Sielle was one of the Castle-era London exhibition dancers who brought the US modern-dance vocabulary to the West End circuit. Lessons explained in photographs. Content: 8 numbered One-Step figures (Walk / Side Step-Introduction / Kick Step / Turn / Curve Step / Travelling Step / Dip Step / Side Lift) + ad-lib Finale. Leading protocol: gentleman leads; lady never leads, only follows. 'All the steps must be danced very smoothly on the soles of the feet. Great care must be taken to keep all forward and backward steps narrow, that is to say, the heels close together; the steps may be long, but they must not be wide.' — distinctive early English-style posture guidance, continuous with Silvester 1927/1935 modern-ballroom technique. Has_Step_Detail=Partial: count-and-position notation but no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall.Year: 1919Family: feldman-osCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by B. Feldman & Co., 2, 3 & 4 Arthur Street, New Oxford Street, W.C.2, London. 'Roland's Pianoforte Tutor — The Best In The World' series, No. 1126. Price 6d. each. Part of Feldman's integrated sheet-music + dance-instruction publication family alongside Feldman's How to Dance the Boston Hesitation, Feldman's How to Dance the Fox-Trot (POWERS-1919-FELDMAN-FT already in corpus), and Feldman's Latest Fox-Trots (2/- net each). Author Adèle Collier explicitly credited as 'Dancing Partner of Robert Sielle'; Sielle was one of the Castle-era London exhibition dancers who brought the US modern-dance vocabulary to the West End circuit. Lessons explained in photographs. Content: 8 numbered One-Step figures (Walk / Side Step-Introduction / Kick Step / Turn / Curve Step / Travelling Step / Dip Step / Side Lift) + ad-lib Finale. Leading protocol: gentleman leads; lady never leads, only follows. 'All the steps must be danced very smoothly on the soles of the feet. Great care must be taken to keep all forward and backward steps narrow, that is to say, the heels close together; the steps may be long, but they must not be wide.' — distinctive early English-style posture guidance, continuous with Silvester 1927/1935 modern-ballroom technique. Has_Step_Detail=Partial: count-and-position notation but no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall. (1919). Imported from local collection.