List of partner dance books explained

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,)
  • Popular Variations (numerous reprints and editions since 1954)
• Victor Silvester, Modern Ballroom Dancing. Stanley Paul, London (first published 1928, 1993 edition, 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, ;
  • Leading Competition Figures: Tango and Quickstep, ;
  • Competition Figures: Charts and Footpatterns, ;

Basic books for the American Style

• Richard M. Stephenson and Joseph Iaccarino, Complete Book of Ballroom Dancing (1992) Main Street Books,
• Jeffrey Allen, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing, 2nd edition 2006,

Partner and Social Dance Research and Scholarship

• Juliet E. McMains (2006) Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry Wesleyan University Press,

The first in-depth study of the American DanceSport.^{[1] [2]}

• Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold (2004) A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, University Press of Mississippi,

About roles gender plays in creating and marketing the Country /Western musical and dance forms.

Partner and Social Dance Teaching

This list contains books that provide guidance for how to teach partner/social dancing. It does not include books, such as The Dancing Master, that primarily focus on the dance steps or technique, rather than on how to teach.

• Edith Ballwebber, 1938, Group Instruction in Social Dancing, A. S. Barnes & Company, Inc
• Dorothy Norman Cropper, 1939, Teacher's Manual of Ballroom Dancing, IHRA Publishing Co.
• August Harris & Donnabel Keys, 1940, Teaching Social Dance, Prentice-Hall, Inc
• Alma Heaton, 1965, Techniques of Teaching Ballroom Dance, Brigham Young University
• Judy Patterson Wright, 1996, Social Dance Instruction, Human Kinetics Publishers,
• Diane Jarmalow, 2011, Teach Like a Pro, Ballroom Dance Teachers College,
• Rudi Trautz, 2021, The Art of Teaching Social Dancing,
• Thomas Hill, 2022, How to Teach Ballroom Dancing,

General

• Patrice Tanaka, Becoming Ginger Rogers: How Ballroom Dancing Made Me A Happier Woman, Better Partner, and Smarter CEO, BenBella Books (2011)
• Matt Barber, Beginning Ballroom: Why's, Do's, Don'ts, and Shoes. (2011).

Other lists

• The US Library of Congress has a collection of 250+ dance manuals, from 1490 to 1920, with full scans.
• Library of Dance has a curated list 6000+ of dance books, from the 15th century to today, many of which are partner dance books. 2000+ are downloadable.

External links

• , for Swing dance

Notes and References

1. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=28533 "Dance fever: Recovery can be hard"
2. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dance_research_journal/v040/40.1.dodds.html A review of Glamour Addiction