Bibliographies - Dance

An American Ballroom Companion

Dance instruction manuals from 1490 to 1920. The list begins with the rare late 15th century “Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche” and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 “Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents”. The website by the Library of Congress also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories and treatises on etiquette.