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

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, 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.

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", 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

External links

• Wikibooks:Swing Dancing, for Swing dance