Dancing for Strength and Beauty (Renascent Dancing): A Critical and Practical Treatise. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Scott   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The term renascent is used for the kind of dancing advocated in this treatise, because it implies the idea of coming again into being. It suggests the revival of a spirit that has animated the practice of dancing during those historic periods when its marvellous potentiality for develop ing strength and beauty has been most fully recognized. It also suggests the rebirth of a style that is healthy and virile, as opposed to certain degenerate movements which obtained too firm a hold on the public fancy in the years immediately preceding the great war, and the formless dances to rhythmless music that followed.

Dancing and Dancers: Or Grace and Folly. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Scott   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The Opinions expressed in the following pages on various matters directly or indirectly connected, with dancing are not in any way restricted by the conventional notions that are usually entertained respecting such matters. The book, therefore, is in no sense to be regarded as a ball — room guide. On the contrary, whatever information it con tains is chie?y of a kind that is not be found in ball-room guides, or, indeed, in any work on dancing that has hitherto been published.