Reviews
of How To Dance Through Time, Volume IV
The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance
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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