Juliet E. McMains is a

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dance scholar and instructor,"Dance fever: Recovery can be hard"
, by Nancy Wick, ''University Week'' (University of Washington), November 30, 2006 the author of the ''Glamour Addiction'', the first comprehensive study of the

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.A review of ''Glamour Addiction''
in the ''Dance Research Journal'', Volume 40, Number 1, Summer 2008 Juliet McMains started doing

ballroom dancing Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television. ...

as a teenager. Eventually she became professional ballroom dancer until she stopped competing in 2003. Her Senior thesis in the college was ''Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing''. She earned B.A. in Women's Studies from

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and PhD in dance history and theory (2003) at the

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. , she is a teacher of World Dance History, Beginning

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, Beginning

Tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

, Beginning Swing and Beginning

Ballroom dance Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television. ...

at the

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. Her academic specializations include dance ethnography, social

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, post-structural theory,

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, and

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Scholar works

*2006: Juliet E. McMains, "Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry"

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, *2002: Juliet McMains and Danielle Robinson. "Swinging Out: Southern California's Lindy Revival." in: ''I See America Dancing: Selected Readings'', 1685-2000, Ed. Maureen Needham.

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References

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