Traditional Step-Dancing in Lakeland

J.F. and T.M. Flett

A description, with diagrams, of many of the steps and dances performed by Lakeland dancers. Includes chapters on:

• Life in 18th and 19th Century Lakeland
• Early records of dancing
• The Robinson family
• The dancing classes and finishing balls
• Lakeland dancing teachers
• Dancing on social occasions
• Stage dancing

There  are also reproductions of Ball Programmes of the time

First Published EFDSS 1979