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Horatio N. Grant
Best known for practical late-19th-century dance manuals, this author wrote brisk, hands-on guides for teachers and performers in Buffalo, New York. The surviving record is thin, but the books suggest a working instructor focused on clear technique and popular stage and social dances.
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The Highland Fling and How to Teach it
by Horatio N. Grant
About the author
Horatio N. Grant is known today through a cluster of dance instruction books from the 1890s. Library of Congress and Open Library records connect him with works including The Highland Fling and How to Teach It (1892), How to Become Successful Teachers of the Art of Dancing, in Conjunction with How to Manage a Favor-German (1893), Song and Dance, The Double Sword Dance, and Irine Skipping Rope Dance.
Those publications place him in Buffalo, New York, where his books were printed and where he is identified as "Prof. Grant" or "Prof. H. N. Grant." His writing appears aimed at teaching: practical step-by-step manuals for dancing instructors, with a particular interest in performance pieces and social dance practice.
Very little biographical information beyond the books themselves is easy to confirm from reliable public sources, so the safest picture is of a late-19th-century dance teacher and author whose small manuals helped preserve period dance instruction in print.