Dancing Till Dawn A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance [Paperback]

Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and thorough account of a dance form that has found renewed popularity in recent years.

A delightful and much-needed examination of twentieth-century American ballroom dance and its relation to other performing arts. Malnig employs a lively, rapid-fire writing style that sustains interest throughout the book...An important historical and cultural guide.