How To Dance Through Time, Volume IV

The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance

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Production of the HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME series follows rave reviews from critics, dance experts, libraries, colleges, dance lovers, and historians who have enthusiastically embraced the two-volume video set, DANCETIME DVD! 500 Years of Social Dance.

Most people who buy this DVD also buy the Companion CD.

Publisher, choreographer and dance historian Carol Teten has over 40 years of dance teaching and performing. She is the founder and first artistic director of Dance Through Time, the award-winning theatrical dance company from San Francisco, California, which performs the dances in the videos. 45 Minutes

Reviews of How To Dance Through Time, Volume IV

Music Teachers' Conference-Tasmania "This is just to let you know that we have presented basic steps of the menuet and contredance a well-received workshop in the Music Teachers' Conference in Launceston, Tasmania last 11 July in which we showed your DVD 'The elegance of Baroque Social Dance' Thanks again for this wonderful resource." C and B Thorn, Australia

Library Journal "Each of the tapes provides very explicit and detailed instructions for each step and dance. Each step is shown front and back, fast and slow, without and with music. The steps are then built into entire dances. Finally the completed dances are shown in full with authentic period costuming and music. These tapes will be of primary interest to instructional dance collections and those concerned with dance and social history."

Booklist "The subtlety and elegance of the Renaissance and Baroque periods are aptly portrayed in these newest volumes in the HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME titles...dance enthusiasts will enjoy these programs."

Video Librarian "Once again guided by Carol Teten, who provides enlightened historical and sociological background, we learn that dancing was a basic, important social skill of all nobility and upper classes...recommended for intermediate to advanced dancers and historical collections."

Dance On Camera Journal "These instructional videos will be invaluable to choreographers who create dances for period films or for cotillions and charity balls. They preserve the art form and provide the story of the cultural phenomenon, thus making a perfect addition to dance, design, and anthropological libraries."

The Midwest Book Review "Each of these 45 minute splendidly presented videos easily permit the viewers to achieve competency and fluency in these period dances and are highly recommended additions to personal, professional, dance school, public Library, academic, and community theatre video reference collections."

Catholic Library World "Renaissance Dance focuses on the skills needed by members of the Italian aristocracy in 'a world of social movement, expression and behavior’.

"Baroque Dance is an insightful glimpse into the world of the 18th century court."

Brattleboro Reformer, Keene, N.H. “The organization of the material in each of these sets is first to go over each step of a dance several times in different tempos, from different angles, and with full explanations by the creator and head of the company, Carol Teten. You can watch, then skip back and try the steps yourself as you watch a second time, and over and over until you have it down pat.

“…she [Teten] explains the social structure of the society as it is reflected in each dance and now and then gives us the "sub-text" of the steps -- what the dancers are acting out either consciously or subliminally. It is all fascinating stuff.

“Who must have all six volumes? Public libraries, music and dance departments in all high schools and colleges, local theater groups who do "period" plays, anyone who loves dance, anyone interested in social history, even anyone interested in psychology. That does not leave many who would not want copies of this set.”

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