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Julie Malnig holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University and teaches seminars on research and writing for a master's degree program at NYU's Gallatin Division. She is an editor for Women & Performance journal and The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. She also has academic and professional credits as a director and actress. Her articles have appeared in Performing Arts Resources, The Passing Show, and other publications, as well as in anthologies and reference books including Theatrical Directors, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.
Written as a straightforward chronology of ballroom dance, the book is well researched and entertaining to read. Malnig pays special attention to the music that helped animate this form of popular entertainment. Undergraduate: graduate: faculty. * Choice * This is a fascinating account of one author's view of the beginnings of exhibition ballroom dance shortly after the turn of the century and her account of its ups and downs through the ensuing years up to the present. * Dance Teacher Now * Dancing Till Dawn is undoubtedly a solid point of departure for future research in this fascinating field of dance as it is found at the interstices of the popular and the theatrical. * Dance Research Journal *
