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.
Julie Malnig is Assistant Professor in the Gallatin Division of New York University where she teaches courses in Performance History, American Culture, and Gender Studies.
"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."
~Theatre Journal
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