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Browsing Historical and Heritage Studies by UP Author "Green, Alida Maria"
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Green, Alida Maria
(South African Society of Cultural History, 2007-06)
Ballroom dancing remains a popular cultural pastime in the twenty first century. Although it originated way back in fourteenth century Europe, the current techniques were standardized only shortly before the Second World ...
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Green, Alida Maria
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015-05)
The Great War of 1914, and the increase in the South African urban society,
served as a catalyst to expand the South African social dancing scene. While
dancing before the War was still very exclusive, dancing during War ...
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Green, Alida Maria
(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2009-07)
By the turn of the nineteenth century ballroom dancing had become a popular social pastime in Europe, North-America and South Africa. The years leading up to the First World War saw a number of South African social dancers, ...