Historical (Subscribe)
Categories
- Baroque (21)
- English Regency (10)
- Medieval (2)
- Renaissance (33)
- Vintage (27)
Links
Capering & Kickery
Blog by dance historians and reconstructors. Mainly covering the 19th and early 20th century. Includes articles, and links to social dance groups.
Choregraphie Antique
http://www.goucher.edu/choregraphieantique/
Dance history ensemble of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Performs ballroom dances of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Calendar of upcoming performances.
Coranto
UK based group working on dance from medieval times to the late 18th century. Information about concerts, educational services, and publications.
Dance History Teachers Discussion Group
http://lists.fsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dhtdg/
Discussion archives, and information about subscribing.
Dance Through Time
http://www.dancethroughtime.org/
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.
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.
Early Arts Guild of Victoria
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~earlyart/
Including Rippon Lea Renaissance and Baroque Dancers, and the Early Music Consort of Melbourne. Information about classes, performances and school programs. Australia.
Early Dance Circle
http://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/
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.
Earthly Delights
http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/
Music and dance band based in Canberra, Australia. Information about their instruments, performances, dance classes, dance history, dance terms, and some instructions for dances.
Federica Calvino Prina
http://xoomer.alice.it/fecalvin/
Italian dancer and teacher of renaissance and baroque dance. Information about future courses and performances.
Hof-Dantzer
http://www.hofdantzer.at/index_engl.htm
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.
Ken Pierce
http://web.mit.edu/kpierce/www/
Baroque and late Renaissance dancer and researcher. Includes papers, videos, and information about his summer workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Kickback
http://www.kickback.btinternet.co.uk/
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.
Library of Congress: Dance Instruction Manuals
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/
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.
Lucretia
Czech group performing Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and folk dance. Includes information about performances available, and a photo gallery.

