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This guide to Scottish ceilidh dancing takes you through intricate dance steps, shows the various hand holds and introduces dances such as The Dashing White Sergeant , The Gay Gordon , The Gypsy Tap and The Lucky Seven . It contains over 50 dances.

Provides a guide to the basic steps of Scottish reels and country dances, all broken down into bullet points and illustrated with diagrams. This title also offers hints on the social niceties of reeling, the conventions of the dance and the timetable of the Scottish social season.

Tracing the origins of dance back to early medieval accounts, this volume also charts the developments of the 18th century, exploring how dance played a vital role in the formation of a new national culture.

Crisis and Celebrity in a South Italian Healing Hut. With its roots in one of the most well known and long-lasting healing rituals to be found in Europe, the tarantulas dance has now become a popular music and dance craze. The author asks whether this current popularity has anything to do with the historic ritual of tarantism and whether the notion of healing is still of any relevance.

Gives a historical overview of folk dance ensembles in Los Angeles and the Orange Counties. This work examines groups such as Krakusy, Podhale, Gorale, and Polskie Iskry; popular Polish dances like Goralski, Zbojnicki, and the Polka; and the relationship between Polish models of these dances and their interpretation by modern American ensembles.

This guide contains 63 complete set dances, including all those danced commonly in classes, summer school and at feiseanna. These are laid out in conventional set terminology and can be easily followed by teachers, pupils and anyone who has an acquaintance with the art of set dancing.

In 1992, the greatest Flamenco artist of all time died at the age of 41 as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Yet, Camaron de la Isla is still known as the 'Flamenco Beatle'. This title presents the story of the passion and intensity of Flamenco, the culture of a dance, and the death of a legend.

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world and this book, the only complete history of the art in the English language, traces the history of the martial art and examines its influence on ethnic and national

Presents an international, political perspective to capoeira. This book lets readers experience capoeira in its historical context. It explores capoeira programmes for at-risk youth, and a socio-cultural consideration of the effects internationalization has had on this form.

Twentieth centurys Nataraj. This work is a brief sketch of the life of this great maestro.

Explores and compares the cultural traditions that underpin folk dance in various part of Europe, and it considers the importance of dance both as a patriotic statement and as a force for education and international communication. This work also covers: the history and development of folk dance; and more.

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Includes instructions and diagrams for 30 popular traditional Irish dances.

In the middle of the 1970s, a storm swept through the world of Morris: women had started to dance what, up to then, had been widely considered to be a men-only tradition. John Cutting had joined Herga Morris in 1972 and was thus a newcomer at the time. What, then, was this Morris tradition? Was it entertainment? Was it some mystical rite?