" From Ballroom to DanceSport . will stand as a unique contribution, one that could not be written by anyone else at this point, and should be required reading for anyone interested in the burgeoning popular phenomenon of ballroom dance." -- Sport Literature Association ".Picart has the lived experience of straddling a number of stereotypes concerning race, sexuality, nationality, class, and gender. This insider-outsider position serves well to open the boundaries of habit and regulation while Caroline dances through different worlds and views motion pictures that have ballroom dancing as a background and/or primary focus." -- Attitude "I began this book with but a cursory understanding of ballroom dance and a strong understanding of things rhetorical; I ended it with a deep appreciation of the art of ballroom dancing and admiration for the author's deployment of contemporary critical theory." -- David Frank, University of Oregon "This book on the politics, aesthetics, and cultural underpinnings of ballroom dancing and DanceSport is written by someone who participates in both, and this lends an immediacy and authority to the author. Picart is able to provide a very thoughtful and subtle analysis of how society positions itself on the transformation of an art form into a sport.

" -- Adrian Del Caro, University of Colorado "Exceptional, remarkable, unique, very well researched, and comprehensible! Picart's book, From Ballroom to DanceSport, examines the increasing popularity of ballroom and cabaret dancing and the myriad of issues and forces involved internationally in the quest (and debate) for inclusion in the Olympics as dancesport. This book is a 'must' read for all students of dance, amateur and professional dancers, those involved in dance media, dance organizations, and all who enjoy social dancing." -- Jessie Lovano-Kerr, Florida State University.