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Historical

Historical dances are old dances that have been reconstructed from the contemporary records such as books and manuscripts, paintings or drawings, and film.

The dances themselves may be reconstructions from written or notated choreographies, or dances in an old style using steps and movements appropriate to the period.

Sites in Historical

Il Teatro Amoroso
Renaissance and baroque dance-theater ensemble. Information about upcoming performances and classes.

Hof-Dantzer
Dancers from Austria, Germany and the Netherlands whose repertoire includes baroque stage dance, domestic dance from the Biedermeier period, and ballroom dance from the Strauss era. Includes information about their CDs of dance music, and CD-ROM on baroque dance.

Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS)
Organization dedicated to Western and non-Western dance history, with working groups in early dance and reconstruction. Includes information about publications and conferences, and links organized by subject.

The Calendar of Historical Dance
Upcoming events including classes, summer schools, performances and balls. Plus, links organized by country, period and type, facsimiles of early 18th-century choreographies from the Library of Congress, and photos.

Library of Congress: Dance Instruction Manuals
Facsimiles and SGML versions of social dance manuals from 1490 to 1920. Also includes video clips and an essay giving an overview of the collection.

The Elegant Arts Society
Information about renaissance, English regency, and vintage dance. Upcoming events in northeastern US, and classes in New York City.

Società di Danza
Italian group dedicated to researching 19th century and historical dance. Includes information about balls and classes.

Coranto
UK based group working on dance from mediaeval times to the late 18th century. Information about concerts, educational services, and publications.

Dance History Teachers Discussion Group
Discussion archives, and information about subscribing.

Dance Through Time
Company that researches, preserves, presents, and educates the public about Western social dances from the 15th century to the present, based in San Francisco. Includes information about upcoming performances, and hiring the company for teaching or performance.

California Heritage Dancers
Group recreating the American dances that evolved into modern square-dancing: from the English country dances of the 1700s, to the present day. Includes descriptions of the dances, and information about performances and rehearsals.

Choregraphie Antique
Dance history ensemble of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Performs ballroom dances of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Calendar of upcoming performances.

Historic and Vintage Dance Teaching and Performance
16th century to 1920s social dance. Includes information about vintage dance events in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society
Society aiming to promote teaching, performance and research in European dance from the 15th to the 19th century. Includes information about the journal "Historical Dance", books, practice tapes, conferences, summer schools, and a list of dance groups in the UK.

Kickback
Based in the UK, Verna Wass teaches traditional and historical dance for schools and other groups: from medieval line dances to the 20th century. Also available for displays, ceilidhs and barn dances.

Earthly Delights
Music and dance band. Information about their instruments, performances, dance classes, dance history, dance terms, and some instructions for dances.

Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble
Researches and performs dances from the late-15th to mid-19th centuries. Classes just west of Philadelphia. Also contains background information on renaissance, colonial, regency and Victorian dance.

We Make History
Organizes Colonial, Regency and Victorian dance events throughout the Southwestern United States. Site provides information about upcoming balls, and introductions to the etiquette and clothing of each period.

The Institute for Historical Dance Practice
Group based in Belgium that researches, performs and teaches dances from between 1450 and 1920. Information about associated performing groups, services, summer schools and classes.

Plaisir Courtois
Dance group from Groningen, The Netherlands. Includes background information on renaissance, baroque and Viennese dance.

MSN Learning & Research: Popular and Social Dance
From the early middle ages to the 1990s.

The Companie of Dansers
UK based company directed by Madeleine Inglehearn. Information about baroque and renaissance dance classes, hiring the company, and their publications.

Nonsuch
History and dance company based in the UK. Information about classes, performance and education services, and books and tapes for sale.

Ardente Sole
Polish group performing court ballet from the medieval to baroque periods. Includes background, and information about their shows.

Early Dance at Longy
Annual summer workshop in baroque and late renaissance dance, taught by Ken Pierce. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

New York Historical Dance Company
Offers workshops and performances in 15th to early 20th century dance. Includes information about services and products for sale.

Yesteryears Dancers
American colonial to vintage dance performances and workshops. Includes information about upcoming events.

The Early Dance Consort
Based in Sydney, Australia. Offers classes and performances in renaissance and baroque dance.

Saltatio Vitae
Czech group performing folk and court dances from the gothic to the early baroque period. Includes background information on the dances in their repertoire.

The Early Dance Circle
Umbrella organization for early dance in the UK. Includes information about membership and events, and an overview of Western dance from the middle ages to the 19th century.

Lucretia
Czech group performing gothic, renaissance, baroque and folk dance. Includes information about performances available, and a photo gallery.

Federica Calvino Prina
Italian dancer and teacher of renaissance and baroque dance. Information about future courses and performances.

Amherst Early Music Festival: Historical Dance Program
Information about dance classes at this summer early music festival. Renaissance, baroque and country dance.