List of partner dance books

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

Ballroom dancing

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Basic books for the International Style

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  • 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

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Basic books for the American Style

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  • 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

Partner and Social Dance Research and Scholarship

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Partner and Social Dance Teaching

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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, ISBN 978-0873228305
  • Diane Jarmalow, 2011, Teach Like a Pro, Ballroom Dance Teachers College, ISBN 978-0983526100
  • Rudi Trautz, 2021, The Art of Teaching Social Dancing, ISBN 978-3943599862
  • Thomas Hill, 2022, How to Teach Ballroom Dancing, ISBN 979-8842347698

General

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  • 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
  • Matt Barber, Beginning Ballroom: Why's, Do's, Don'ts, and Shoes. (2011). ISBN 978-1-4535-5262-9

Other lists

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References

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  1. ^ "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
  2. ^ A review of Glamour Addiction in the Dance Research Journal, Volume 40, Number 1, Summer 2008
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