Cooper, Paul. "The Science of Country Dancing in the Early 19th & Late 18th Centuries."

Cooper, Paul. "The Science of Country Dancing in the Early 19th & Late 18th Centuries." In Terpsichore and her Sisters: The Relationship between Dance and other Arts [Proceedings of the Early Dance Circle Conference held on 8-10 April 2016], edited by Georgina Boyes, 141-152. Cambridge: Early Dance Circle, 2017.

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Abstract:
This presentation offers an introduction to, and review of, the major source works on English Country Dancing published in the early 19th Century and late 18th Century. It investigates the Scientific, Mathematical and Analytical techniques used by the dance writers of England’s Age of Invention, as algorithm and taxonomy were applied to social dance forms.