Dancing Till Dawn A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance

Subjects:

• The Arts » Dance
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• Written as a straightforward chronology of ballroom dance, the book is well researched and entertaining to read. Malnig pays special attention to the music that helped animate this form of popular entertainment. Undergraduate: graduate: faculty.
  —Choice
• This is a fascinating account of one author's view of the beginnings of exhibition ballroom dance shortly after the turn of the century and her account of its ups and downs through the ensuing years up to the present.
  —Dance Teacher Now
• Dancing Till Dawn is undoubtedly a solid point of departure for future research in this fascinating field of dance as it is found at the interstices of the popular and the theatrical.
  —Dance Research Journal

• Endorsement From
  Marge Champion
  
  : Dancing Till Dawn fills a gap long apparent on the shelves of the dance libraries of America. Thanks to Julie Malnig we now have a proper history.
• Endorsement From
  Sally Sommer
  : This book about ballroom dance is also a book about American social history. Whether polished for the stage or performed in the dance hall, ballroom dancing distills crucial information in a gorgeous time capsule of motion. . . . Now, for the first time, Julie Malnig has gathered together the facts about this curious and wonderful world of dance. Dancing Till Dawn not only sheds light on our past, it provides a strong cornerstone for future research.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The Origins and Rise of Exhibition Ballroom Dance
• Dancing Deities: Career Paths of the Early Innovators
• Cabaret Dancing
• Taking the Palace by Storm: Exhibition Ballroom Dance in Vaudeville of the Teens and Twenties
• Exhibition Ballroom Dance in Early Musical Theatre
• Decline and Rebirth
• The Contemporary Renaissance
• Appendix A: Social Dances, 1908-1919
• Appendix B: Exhibition Ballroom Dance Technique, 1908-1919
• Selected Bibliography
• Index