List of partner dance books

Listed below are books that describe the techniques of various partner dances.

Ballroom dancing

Basic books for the International Style

  • Alex Moore:
    • The Ballroom Technique
    • Ballroom Dancing, an elaboration on the above book (9th Edition, 1986, ISBN 0-7136-2794-8)
    • Popular Variations (numerous reprints and editions since 1954)
  • Victor Silvester, Modern Ballroom Dancing. Stanley Paul, London (first published 1928, 1993 edition ISBN 0-09-178193-0, current edition 2005)
  • Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD):
    • The Ballroom Technique, (numerous reprints and editions since 1948) originally based on a work of the same name by Alex Moore.
    • The Revised Technique of Latin-American Dancing, (reprints and editions since 1971)
    • Popular Variations in Latin-American Dancing, (1982)
  • Guy Howard, Technique of Ballroom Dancing
  • Walter Laird:
    • Technique of Latin Dancing
    • Technique of Latin Dancing Supplement
  • Craig Revel Horwood, Ballroom Dancing, Teach Yourself (2010)


Advanced books for the International Style

  • Christopher R. Willis (FISTD):
    • Leading Competition Figures: Waltz and Foxtrot, ISBN 0991406214; ISBN 978-0991406210
    • Leading Competition Figures: Tango and Quickstep, ISBN 0991406222; ISBN 978-0991406227
    • Competition Figures: Charts and Footpatterns, ISBN 0991406230; ISBN 978-0991406234

Basic books for the American Style

  • Matt Barber, Beginning Ballroom: Why's, Do's, Don'ts, and Shoes. (2011). ISBN 978-1-4535-5262-9 [1]
  • Richard M. Stephenson and Joseph Iaccarino, Complete Book of Ballroom Dancing (1992) Main Street Books, ISBN 0-385-42416-7
  • Jeffrey Allen, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 1-59257-577-3
  • Kaye Anderson, Fancy Dancing Series 1992: Dance Action, PO Box 7162, Mesa, AZ 85216
    • Fancy Footwork: The Art of Round Dancing ISBN 0-9625895-3-5
    • Fancy Figures: Two-Step ISBN 0-9625895-1-9
    • Fancy Figures: Easy Level Waltz ISBN 0-9625895-2-7
    • Fancy Figures: Phase III Moderns (Foxtrot, Quickstep, Argentine Tango) ISBN 0-9625895-4-3
    • Fancy Figures: Phase III Latins (Cha Cha, Rumba, Mambo, Jive) ISBN 978-0-9625895-6-0

Partner and social dance research and scholarship

  • Juliet E. McMains (2006) Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 0-8195-6774-4
    The first in-depth study of the American DanceSport.[2][3]
  • Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold (2004) A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 1-57806-678-6
    About roles gender plays in creating and marketing the Country /Western musical and dance forms.

General

  • Patrice Tanaka, Becoming Ginger Rogers: How Ballroom Dancing Made Me A Happier Woman, Better Partner, and Smarter CEO', BenBella Books (2011) ISBN 978-193666103-9


References

  1. ↑ Barber, Matt (2011). Beginning Ballroom: Why's, Do's, Don'ts, and Shoes. La Vergne, TN: Ingram. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-4535-5262-9.
  2. ↑ "Dance fever: Recovery can be hard" Archived 2009-01-20 at the Wayback Machine., an article about the book and the author at the University of Washington newspaper, University Week, November 30, 2006
  3. ↑ A review of Glamour Addiction in the Dance Research Journal, Volume 40, Number 1, Summer 2008
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