Product Description

Ballroom dancing is back. In universities, town halls, bars, clubs and leisure centres across the UK there are hundreds of thousands of people learning to dance. Strictly Come Dancing attracted millions of viewers and was one of the BBC's most successful new series of recent times. This new edition of Victor Silvester's classic book Modern Ballroom Dancing comes at just the right moment to capitalise on this renaissance. Fully updated and featuring brand new photographs of some of the world's hottest dancing talent, it covers all the most popular ballroom dances, from the four classics that should form the basis of any dancer's repertoire - Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep and Tango to the great Latin American dances that are so popular - Rumba, Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha and Paso Doble, and Rock 'n' Roll. The clear, comprehensive notes and diagrams on each dance are invaluable to beginners, more advanced students and teachers alike. The book also features sections on the history of dance, showing how modern dances originated and developed, and how they have been influenced by world dance. Perfect for those dancing for fun and for those aiming for competitive performance, Modern Ballroom Dancing will be indispensable to a whole new generation of dancers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154531 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

The Saturday Express, 17 December 2005
"Perhaps the Christmas book of choice should be... the new edition of Modern Ballroom Dancing by Victor Silvester."

From the Publisher
A new edition of the classic bible of ballroom dancing

About the Author
Victor Silvester is the man who put the 'slow, slow, quick, quick, slow' into ballroom dancing. He won the World's Professional Dancing Championship in 1922 and went on to build an unrivalled reputation as a demonstrator and teacher of dance. The recordings that he made, with his famous orchestra, have sold in excess of 75 million. Awarded the OBE for services to Ballroom Dancing, Victor Silvester was also President of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance. He died in 1978.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Illustrative Material
This is a very good illustrative guide to modern, old time sequence and Latin American dance. The author gives practical guidance to holds, walks, amount of turn, slows, quicks and beats and bars for all the professional dances.

This book is aimed at dancers from all backgrounds in ballroom dancing and is a good teaching tool, with colour photographs of professional dancers who attended competitions around the world.

Not trustworthy
Some of the timings given in this book are wrong. Most of the information here is correct, but since some of it isn't you can't trust anything without double checking with the Alex Moore or Guy Howard books first.