The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… and country dances, ‘as practiced in the most polite Assemblies in Europe.’ 10 Englishmen and other Europeans traveling in America, and Americans abroad, could share the bodily language of polite behavior and elegant social … with a proper carriage,’ if they shunned the extravagance of dancing. 14 12 . Marquis François Jean de Chastellux, Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, & 1782 (London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1787), p. 314-17. 13 . John W. …
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