Shall We Dance - Prologue

[Jean W. Williams]

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Alan Kita wrote:

> I don't know if there are any 'Meiji-jidai pop culture'
> scholars around, but....
> 

I'm not - but I do a lot of work in dance scholarship.  One of the
earliest images of the Japanese abroad that is reported is a samurai in
the 18th c I believe dancing in Europe with his swords on.

In Japan itself, probably the place that ballroom dancing and other
Western fashions first caught on was the Rokumeikan.


Jean Williams
Dept. of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
jqw3827 at is2.nyu.edu