How To Dance Through Time, Volume II
How To Dance Through Time, Volume II
The Ragtime Era 1910-1920View the Cover | Read the Reviews | Companion Music CD
As with all the HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME videos, the dances are introduced with a concise, historical overview illustrated with authentic photographs and drawings. All the steps are carefully researched from authentic period manuscripts. Each instruction shows ‘close up’ views and ‘slow motion’ so that easy learning is possible. Professional dancers demonstrate step details. Following the instructional section, dancers perform all the dances with the authentic music and fashions of the era. Production of the HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME series follows rave reviews from consumers, 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 founding artistic director of Dance Through Time, the award-winning theatrical dance company of San Francisco, which performs the dances in the video. 50 minutes.
Reviews of How To Dance Through Time, Volume IIThe Ragtime Era 1910-1920 Library Journal "Elegantly produced, with authentic music and fashions of the era, this title will be a popular addition to instructional dance collections." Video Librarian "Each style of dance is prefaced by a truly illuminating educational section wherein the sociological and historical significance of each is explained, buttressed by period photographs and drawings. …each of the combinations is shown in real time, first in full-body view, then in a close-up on the feet." Let’s Dance “I felt anyone could learn the steps of the dances without a problem. I would recommend this video to anyone who is interested in learning to do vintage dances and who wants to find out more about the history of this particular type of dance." 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." Folk Dance Scene ”...Even after more than a decade of practicing Ragtime Dance, we found new material here and intend to share it with our students." 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. Want to try only one for openers? I recommend the most fun-filled one, "Dances of the Ragtime Era." |
