Synopsis
May I Have the Pleasure?
Published by DanceBooks
From the invention of the couple dance by the Troubadors of Provence, through the domination of the Italian, the English, and the French courts to the French Revolution, and then to the most shocking dance ever known to Western man, the Waltz
Eighty years later, and the syncopated beat of ragtime leads to the age of the Foxtrot and the Quickstep - until Bill Haley starts to play and Elvis moves his pelvis...This is not a look at how to dance, but what people danced, and why