The Online Books Page

Dance

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Amusements
• Performing arts

• Balls (Parties)

• Dance -- Africa
• Dance -- Arizona
• Dance -- Early works to 1800
• Dance -- England
• Dance -- Europe
• Dance -- Fiction
• Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Dance -- Health aspects
• Dance -- History
• Dance -- Illinois
• Dance -- Japan
• Dance -- Juvenile fiction
• Dance -- Law and legislation
• Dance -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Dance -- New Mexico
• Dance -- New York (State)
• Dance -- North America
• Dance -- Periodicals
• Dance -- Photographs
• Dance -- Poetry
• Dance -- Religious aspects
• Dance -- Social aspects
• Dance -- Southwest, New
• Dance -- Study and teaching
• Dance -- United States
• Dance -- Virginia
• Ballet
• Ballroom dancing
• Choreography
• Clog dancing
• Country dancing
• Dance parties
• Folk dancing
• Foxtrot (Dance)
• German (Dance)
• Hula (Dance)
• Indian dance
• Jig (Dance)
• Minuet (Dance)
• Modern dance
• Movement notation
• Religious dance
• Round dancing
• Square dancing
• Sword-dance
• Waltz

• Dances
• Dancing

• American Clown: Athletic Dance for Men or Boys (second edition, 1927), by George Martin Caskey (frame-dependent page images at sc.edu)
• The Art of Dancing: Its Theory and Practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Clendenen's Treatise on Elementary and Classical Dancing, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Course of Instruction in Dancing and Aesthetic Development of the Body, by L. F. Segaldo (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dances of To-Day, by Albert W. Newman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Danciad, by Thomas Wilson (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, As a Means of Physical Education, by Mrs. Alfred Webster (HTML and page images at LOC)
• How to Dance the Revived Ancient Dances, by Ardern Holt (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Lure of the Dance (Los Angeles: T. A. Faulkner, c1916), by Thomas A. Faulkner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and page images at LOC
• Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the Recreation of Adolescents, by Ella Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Sketches Relative to the History and Theory, but More Especially to the Practice of Dancing, by Francis Peacock (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Social Dance, by R. A. Adams (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Stage and Fancy Dancing, by F. C. Nott (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Tango and Other Up-to-Date Dances, by J. S. Hopkins (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Terpsichorean Monitor, by William E. Greene (HTML and page images at LOC)
• "Tips to Dancers," Good Manners for Ballroom and Dance Hall, by Vivian Persis Dewey (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing, by James P. Cassidy (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Use and Peculiar Advantages of Dancing and Exercises, Considered as a Means of Refinement and Physical Development, by Francis Mason (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• Dancing at Home and Abroad, by C. H. Cleveland (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, Beauty, and Games (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1913), by Constance Stewart-Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Le Gratie d'Amore (in Italian; facsimile images from 1602 and 1604 editions), by Cesare Negri (page images with commentary at pbm.com)
• A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (page images at pbm.com)
• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce From London to Norwich, by William Kemp (text in the UK)
• Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce From London to Norwich (London: Printed for the Camden Society, by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1840), by William Kemp, ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures, by Kellom Tomlinson (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• How to Dance: A Complete Ball-Room and Party Guide (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Irine Skipping Rope Dance, by Horatio N. Grant (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Unique Dancing Call Book, by Charles Link (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Perfect Art of Modern Dancing, by Edna Witherspoon (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Dance, Ancient and Modern, trans. by Arabella E. Moore (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Dance: Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dancing, by Lady Frazer, illust. by Percy Macquoid (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Amateur's Vademecum: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by E. B. Reilley (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Sketches Relative to the History and Theory, but More Especially to the Practice of Dancing, by Francis Peacock (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing, by James P. Cassidy (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Use and Peculiar Advantages of Dancing and Exercises, Considered as a Means of Refinement and Physical Development, by Francis Mason (page images and partial HTML at LOC)

• Dotzie the Dancey Duck (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1936), by June Norris, illust. by Lew Tower (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Dance of Modern Society, by William Cleaver Wilkinson
  • HTML and page images at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• An Essay on Dancing, by J. T. Crane (HTML and page images at LOC)
• There is No Harm in Dancing, by W. E. Penn (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancers and Dancing: A Calm and Rational View of the Dancing Question, by J. M. Hubbert (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Immorality of Modern Dances, ed. by Beryl and Associates (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin it is Shewed, That They Are as it Were Accessories and Dependants (or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome: Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe With Them (1581) (Gutenberg text)

• Focus on Dance (partial serial archives)

• Illustrated Portfolio of Artistic Dancing, by Mrs. H. A. Foreman (page images at LOC)

• Orchestra: or, A Poem of Dancing, by John Davies (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Kimerer L. LaMothe (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• An Account of the Trial of Social Dance, by George Davis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancers and Dancing: A Calm and Rational View of the Dancing Question, by J. M. Hubbert (HTML and page images at LOC)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co., c1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML and page images at LOC
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (c1894), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (illustrated edition; ca. 1920), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• May Christians Dance?, by James H. Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Modern Dances, by Luigi Sartori (HTML and page images at LOC)

More items available under narrower terms.