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How To Dance Through Time: 6 DVD Set


 
DVDs in the How to Dance Through Time series are video tutorials for dances from the Renaissance to Ragtime Eras, including the Quadrille, the Waltz, French Baroque dances, and 19th century Ballroom dances. Each dance is introduced with a concise, historical overview and illustrated with authentic photographs and drawings. The steps were carefully researched from period manuscripts and are careful representations of historical dance. Close up and slow motion views make learning the moves simple and fun.

Price: $199.95

 

Dance historian and choreographer Carol Téten is an engaging presence in the series, providing historical context and calling out dance instructions as professional dancers demonstrate. Following each instructional section, dancers from the Dance Through Time Company perform with authentic music and fashions of the period.

For more details, see the individual DVDs listed below:

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The Romance of Mid-19th Century Couple Dances The first volume of How To Dance Through Time leads beginners through the five ballroom dances that were the touchstones of mid-1800s society. Learn couple dances like the Waltz, Galop, Polka, Schottische, and Polka Mazurka; each segment is entertaining and straightforward. Follow along with the instructions, and you’ll quickly learn the steps and positions of these basic romantic dances.
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The Ragtime Era 1910-1920 In the second volume of How to Dance Through Time, learn the decade’s sophisticated ballroom dances like the Castle Walk, Tango, Maxixe, and Hesitation Waltz. In the same period, a younger generation of Americans spurred the exuberance of the Ragtime Era. Acquaint yourself with syncopated beats, and learn their Animal Dances! Saddle up for the Fox Trot, Horse Trot, Kangaroo Hop, Duck Waddle, Squirrel, Chicken Scratch, Turkey Trot, and Grizzly Bear.
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The Majesty of Renaissance Dance With the third volume of How to Dance Through Time, learn many aspects of Italian Renaissance dance by practicing one famous dance suite, Nido d’Amore (Nest of Love). The suite’s four parts comprise a romantic, episodic story of a couple’s courtship and reveal universal love themes.
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The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance The fourth volume of the How Dance Through Time series teaches the famously patterned dance steps from the French Baroque courts and countryside. These forms are the precursor to ballet and ballroom dance. Learn the Minuet, danced as a romantic courtship ritual, and the intricate Allemande, known for its kaleidoscope of handholds. Next, take a respite from the more formal steps and try the Contradance (Country Dance), an easy line dance that let dancers frolic at the end of Baroque period balls.
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Victorian Era Couples Dances Volume V of the How to Dance Through Time series teaches exciting variations on the basic Waltz, Polka, Galop (Gallop), and Mazurka. The Victorian Era’s themes of freedom and revelry were manifest in the ballroom; dancers celebrated the tradition of classic dances by adding new embellishments.
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A 19th Century Ball: The Charm of Group Dances Volume VI of the How to Dance Through Time series reveals the interplay of flirtatious 19th century group ballroom dances, including the Grand March, Lancers’ Quadrille, and The Cotillion (Le Cotillon). This delightful video guides a choreographer in reenacting a stately and entertaining 1800s ball!

Most people who buy How to Dance Through Time DVDs also buy the Companion CDs.

With 40 years of experience teaching and performing dance, Carol Téten provides context and gives simple instructions to dance beginners. Professional dancers demonstrate, following her lead. 35 minutes.



Each of these 45 minute splendidly presented videos easily permit the viewers to achieve competency and fluency in these period dances.

The Midwest Book Review



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Program Details

Volume 1: The Romance of Mid-19th Century Couples Dances

Basic 19th Century Couple Dances
Waltz
Galop
Polka
Schottische
Polka Mazurka

 

Volume II: The Ragtime Era

ANIMAL DANCES
The Steps
The Fox Trot
The Horse Trot
The Horse Canter
The Squirrel
The Duck Waddle
The Turkey Trot
The Snake
The Kangaroo Hop
The Chicken Scratch
The Grizzly Bear

 

CASTLE WALK
The Steps
The Castle Walk
The Step Out
The Difficult Step Out
One Step Cortez
Castle Spin
Pony Step
Zig Zag
The Wind Up

 

TANGO
The Steps
Pas Oriental á Gauche
Pas Oriental á Droit
The flicking figure
Sheaves
Tango Change position
Fan Tango
Scissors (The Tango innovation)
The Catch Step
El Ruedo
The Corkscrew
Corté (end)

 

MAXIXE
The Steps
The Two Step
The Single Step
The Skating position
The Back Up
Les á cote
The Fan (Repeat all)

 

THE HESITATION WALTZ
The Steps
The Hesitation
The Lame Duck
Waltz
Hesitation with Waltz
The Hesitation in Skating position
The Hesitation in Yale position
The Eight Step
Cinderella
The Stately

 

Volume III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance Suite

Nido d’Amore (suite in 4 sections)
Opening
Galliard (Gagliarda)
Saltarello

 

Volume IV: The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance

Minuet
Allemande
La Bonne Amité
coda: Gigue *

 

Volume V: Victorian Era Couples Dances

WALTZ
Waltz-clockwise
Waltz-counterclockwise
Waltz-changing directions
Diagonal Waltz
Redowa
The Skaters Waltz
Military Times
Double Glide Waltz
Polka Dot Waltz
The Aeroplane Glide

POLKA
Polka
Glide polka
La Esmeralda
Bohemian
The Portland
The Berlin
Polka Militaire
The Ruchter
Baby Polka

GALOP
Galop
Wave Galop
Polish Galop
Le Galop a pas Saute
The Puritan (the Calm, the Fluke, the Gale)

MAZURKA
Pas de Basque
Assemblé
Mazurka hop
Pas Battu
Pas boiteux/tour boiteux
Polka-Mazurka
Gitana Waltz
Tour sur place

 

Volume VI: The Charm of Group Dances

GRAND MARCH
The March in File
The Arbor March
March of the Platoons
The Serpentine March

 

LANCERS QUADRILLE

Les Tiroirs  (Drawers)
Forward and back, forward and turn opposite partner
2 Couples: cross over in drawers
All: balance to corners

 

Les Lignes  (Lines)
Forward and back, forward leaving the lady in center
Chassez to the right and left, turn partner to place
Form 2 lines: All forward and back, forward, turn partners to place.

 

Les Moulinets  (The Stars)
Forward and back, forward again. Salute, return to place
Ladies form a star with right hands, reverse with left hands
Give right hands to partners, return to place.

 

Les Visites  (The visits)
Visit the couple on the right. Salute. Repeat to the couple on the left
Chassez four, to right and left, turn partners to places
Right and left, across and back

 

Les Lanciers  (the Lancers)
Grand chain
The lead couple: promenade round and face outward, other couples line up behind
All chassez across and back
2 lines cast off and return
Join Hands, forward and back, forward, turn partners to place

 

LE COTILLON (Cotillion figures)
The Handkerchief chase
Discarded Gentleman
Gentlemen Kneeling
Le Grand Rond
The Round Arch
Star and Circle
Changing Windmill
The Windmill
The Flying Scarves
The Long scarves/ Winding Alley
The Chain

 

Reviews


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. Anyone with an interest in social history and culture will greatly enjoy these glimpses into the past.

Library Journal



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.

The Midwest Book Review



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.

Dance On Camera Journal



Social dance, history, technique, and researched choreography all come together in Dancetime Publications’ latest videos….this ideal addition to any traditional ballroom dancer’s video collection.

Dancing U.S.A.



In fact, through well organized instruction, professional cinematography, sumptuous period costumes, and the cheerfully stentorian narration of Dance through Time founder Carol Téten, they provide an unexpectedly engaging look of dance forms of times past.

Dance Teacher Now



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 Téten. 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… Téten 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.

Brattleboro Reformer, Keene, N.H.


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