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History :: Ballet
Commedia Dell'Arte :: Mask
Living History

Research: Popular and Social Dance - From the early middle ages to the 1990s.

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

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

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.
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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.

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.
Meta Description: [ Social Dance, Dance, Vintage, Performances, San Francisco ]

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

Earthly Delights - Music and dance band. Information about their instruments, performances, dance classes, dance history, dance terms, and some instructions for dances.
Meta Description: [ Earthly Delights play music for weddings, parties and dances, lead & teach fun dances for everyone and make Period Costumes and Irish dance Dresses ]

Federica Calvino Prina - Italian dancer and teacher of renaissance and baroque dance. Information about future courses and 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.
Meta Description: [ Historic and vintage social dance teaching, performance, and events in the San Francisco Bay Area, plus research and consulting services. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Ensemble für Historischen Tanz, Ensemble for Early Dance ]

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.
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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.
Meta Description: [ An American Ballroom Companion presents a sampling from the collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. ]

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

New York Historical Dance Company - Offers workshops and performances in 15th to early 20th century dance. Includes information about services and products for sale.
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Nonsuch - History and dance company based in the UK. Information about classes, performance and education services, and books and tapes for sale.

Oxford Historical Dance Society - Runs one-day workshops in different dance styles. Information about workshops and membership.

Plaisir Courtois - Dance group from Groningen, The Netherlands. Includes background information on renaissance, baroque and Viennese dance.
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Saltatio Vitae - Czech performing group offering shows with historical and folkloric themes.

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

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.

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.

Teatro Arcimboldo - Renaissance and baroque dance-theater ensemble based in Switzerland. Information about performances, classes and recordings.
Meta Description: [ Teatro Arcimboldo, Basle is a music- and dance-theater ensemble. The ensemble was founded in 1996 by Thilo Hirsch. Through the combination of the various elements music, dance, spectacle, historical costumes, scenery and lightningt the magic of the Golden Age is brought to life again. ]

The Arbeau Dancers - Group based in West Yorkshire, UK, performing dances from the 14th to the 19th centuries. Site includes information about their programs.
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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.

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.
Meta Description: [ website of the Early Dance Circle, the umbrella organisation for early dance in the UK ]

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

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

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.

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.

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

ZeitenTanz - Association to promote historical dance in Austria, based in Vienna. Includes information about workshops and their baroque dance summer school, and an overview of dance styles from from the renaissance to the early 19th century.