Tips to Dancers: Good Manners for Ballroom and Dance Hall is Vivian Persis Dewey’s short guide to dance etiquette, first published in 1918. The 31-page work offers a historical view of manners in the ballroom and dance hall. It is presented here as a PDF Ebook for readers interested in the social setting of early twentieth-century dancing.
The Library of Congress describes the manual as addressing a non-urban readership, with substantial attention to etiquette and the value of good manners. Its dance references concern the one-step and foxtrot. Advice about dress and behaviour places the book firmly in its original period rather than making it a modern Standard or Latin technique syllabus.
Its value is as a compact contemporary document: dancers, teachers and readers of social history can examine how courtesy and participation were discussed at the time. The focus is the conduct surrounding dancing, not a comprehensive collection of figures or choreography. The English-language text and original publication date help distinguish it from later ballroom manuals with similar advice-oriented titles.
Subjects Covered
- Dance etiquette and good manners
- Dress and behaviour in the dance hall
- References to the one-step and foxtrot
The topics above introduce the book’s emphasis on social conduct and its references to the dances of the period.
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