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GENERAL DANCE LINKS

Yahoo Dance Links
New York Public Library J. Robbins Dance Division

International Dance Council - CID Unesco

Congress on Research in Dance CORD
AIRDanza
Dance Notation Bureau

Imperial Society of teachers of Dancing
Dance Book, UK
Dance books (Italian and English site)
Informadanza (only Italian)


International and general links
Video clips at the Library of Congress, US
Video clips illustrating portion of Instruction Manuals of historical dances and steps, from the Renaissance to the Ragtime
Social dance manuals at the Library of Congress, US

A collection of social dance manuals from XV to XX Century. Dance instruction manuals, histories and treatises on etiquette, theatrical dances.
Library of Congress Dance Instruction Manuals, US

Catalog of dance instruction manuals
The Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS)

Study, research, performance and publications in dance history and related fields
SDHS online resources
Several links to organizations, libraries, groups, periodicals and various resources.
Dance Book

Dance books, videos, audios.
The Calendar Historical Dance
Several links to groups, classes, schools, balls and performances
Rendance
Renaissance Dance: archive, links, documents, sources on line
DanceTime Publications
History of Social Dance from XV to XIX Century, research, sources, videos


Australia
Earthly Delights
Promotes the enjoyment, performance and study of early/historical dance in Australia. Teaching, performance, balls, and publications.
Bordonian Heritage Dancers
Historical dance company: Renaissance, Baroque, Regency, English Country Dance, Victorian and Vintage Dance 1580 - 1880. Performances, workshops, tours and costumes.

Belgium
The Institute of Historical Dance, IHDP, Ghent

Several links to sources, groups and sites
La Saltarelle de Wavre
Great Britain

The Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society, UK

Promotes knowledge of early dance. Publications, schools, conferences
Chalemie, London

Early music, dance and commedia
Nonsuch
History and Dance Company.
Consort de Dance Baroque

Historical dance in England and Wales
Les Pagess de la Dance Baroque de Mercure Galant
Introduction and overview of baroque dance
Early Dance Circle
Promotes the enjoyment, performance and study of early/historical dance in the UK
France

L'Eclat des muses, Paris
L'Eventail, Paris
Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Stravaganze
Baroque Dance Company
La Compagnie Maître Guillaume
, French Renaissance Dance Group, Paris
Talon Pointe, Compagnie de Danse Baroque and Renaissance, château de Vizille
Germany

Ensemble Historischer Tanz, Berlin
Erato Ensamble Contretem(p)s, Berlin Institut fur Historischen Tanz, IHT, Berlin
Sweden

Contre Temps
, renaissance and baroque dance
Pied en l'Air , historical dance from XV to XVIII Century
Italy

Società di Danza

Bologna, Faenza, Ferrara, Lecce, Livorno, Milano, Modena, Pisa, Roma, Trento
Il Leoncello
, Legnano (Milano)
Il Passemezzo
, Bergamo
Deda Cristina Colonna

Gloria Giordano

Scealta-Si
, Torino
Taranta
, Firenze
La Chirintana
, Bari
Balletto Estense
, Modena
Austria

Hof-Dantzer, Vienna

zietenTANZ, Vienna

Czech Republic
Dvorana
USA and Canada

Dance Heritage Coalition

Vintage Dancing, US La Belle Dance, Canada Danse Cadence, Montréal, Canada
The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
, music library of operas and ballet by J.B. Lully

Scottish Country Dance

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society ,
second link

Edinburgh University Scottish Country Dance

The Strathspey Server in Frankfurt

Grand Chain

Celtic Circle

Folk Dance

International Folk Dance Links
English Folk Dance and Song Society

Encourage, document and develop folk music, dance and song traditions within England

Costumes

The Costume Site
The History of Costume
The Costume Page

Museums

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milano
Museo del Risorgimento, Bologna
The Dance Card Museum

GENERAL
SCA Dance Cheat Sheets

Social Dance History - the last 500 years
Social Dance Through History (by Carol Teten)

JBC Early Dance Pages

Dance Directory - Historical Dance

The Dance Card Museum

MEDIEVAL DANCE
Early medieval dance music
by Monica Cellio
La Saltarelle de Wavre a troupe performing recreations of medieval dance.
History of Dance: Chistianity and the Middle Ages
from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica

RENAISSANCE DANCE  

Gulielmo Ebreo, Trattato dell'arte del ballo (Zambrini transcription).

Translation of the basse danze and the balli by Jessica Polito.

'Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche', Brussels ms.9085, ca.1495.

Transcription by Lieven Baert and Veerle Fack.

Salisbury manuscript.

Transcription.

Fabritio Caroso, Il Ballarino, 1581.

Transcription of two dances by Andrew Draskoy.

Images, transcription and translation by Greg Lindahl.

Prospero Lutii, Opera Bellissima ... di Gagliarda, 1587.

Transcription by Joseph Casazza.

Thoinot Arbeau, Orchésographie, 1589.

Images by Greg Lindahl.

Cesare Negri, Le Gratie d'Amore, 1602.

Reconstruction of Il Canario by Del

SCA Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets by Greg Lindahl.

The Letter of Dance - A Newsletter of Renaissance Dance

Del's Dance Book

The RenDance Bibliography
LoD Primary Dance Sources: An Annotated Bibliography

SCA Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets: Sources

NYPL Catalogue - Renaissance Dancing

The RenDance Discography

Renaissance Dance Discography

Dance-relevant definitions from John Florio's Dictionary 'Queen Anna's New World of Words' (1611), by Andrew Draskoy

Thresor de la langue francaise (Jean Nicot, 1606): searchable

The Renaissance Dance Home Page (by Andrew Draskoy)

Renaissance Dance Sources (by Joseph Casazza)

SCA Music and Dance Home Page (by Greg Lindahl)

Ellisif's Music & Dance Page

Early Music & Dance Links

Bordonian Heritage Dancers, Australia

 

BAROQUE DANCE
Dance Baroque
: Baroque dance simulation with virtual characters

NYPL Catalogue - Baroque dancing

Transition from Renaissance Dance to Baroque Dance.

Essay by Elizabeth Aldrich, 1998. From the Library of Congress Dance Instruction Manual Collection.

Baroque Dance.

Essay by Elizabeth Aldrich, 1998. From the Library of Congress Dance Instruction Manual Collection.
How to Dance a Minuet.

Baroque dance simulation

with virtual dancers and introduction to Feuillet notation.
Baroque dance links

by Matthew Lewis
Feuillet discussion list

directions for subscribing to the latest version of this e-mail list.
Baroque Dance page

by Mercure Galant
 The works of John Weaver

on-line facsimilies
A Baroque Dance and movement bibliography

by Peggy Lamberson
 History of Dance During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

an article at the Encyclopaedia Brittanica web site.

Bordonian Heritage Dancers, Australia

ORGANISATIONS

Canberra Recorder & Early Music Society (Canberra, Australia)

Society of Dance History Scholars (SHDS)

Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society (DHDS)

La Saltarelle de Wavre (Belgium)

Danserey Renaissance Dance Group (Landshut, Germany)

Spettacolo Cortigiano (Germany)

The Capriol Historical Dance and Musick Group of Oldham (England)

Renaissance Historical Dance Society (England)

Early Music and Historical Dance in Italy - Italian version

New York Baroque Dance Company

Historic and Vintage Dance Teaching and Performance

Societa di Danza

The Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance

Commonwealth Vintage Dancers

MiXED PiCKLES Vintage Dance Co.

AUSTRALIAN BUSH DANCE

What is Bush Dancing?
According to Shirley Andrews, "Modern bush dancing is a city-based development from the folk revival of the 1950s. The majority of the dances were folk dances from Great Britain and Europe, while the others were from the Australian tradition. Colonial dancing actually describes the social dance fashion of town and country of the 19th Century."
Earthly Delights
Promotes the enjoyment, performance and study of early/historical dance in Australia. Teaching, performance, balls, and publications. Band available for hire and dancers for displays.

Bordonian Heritage Dancers

Australian heritage dance display troupe will provide displays for your fete, school, conference, dance, fair or historical display in full historical costume and with heritage instruments and music. Based in Canberra but will travel anywhere in Australia and internationally. Contact or phone (02) 6281 1098.

Monaro Folk Society:
The Monaro Folk Society organises regular dances -bush dance, Irish Dance, Contra Dance, and more in Canberra.

Bush Dancing

For a free email newsletter about dance activities in Canberra please email Lance Court.
The Bush Dance Display Group, Canberra bush dance displays

Wongawilli 
Australian Traditional Dance Music

Old Time Dancing and Music -
Music and Dance Categories and Tempos
PATHS (Preservation of AustraliaÁs Traditions and Heritage Society)

NSW Folk Federation


ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE

The Dancing Master

John Playford, The English Dancing Master, 1651

Transcription by flip@andrew.cmu.edu.

Another transcription by Charlene Charette.

Playford dance music information by Eric Praetzel.
English Country Dance Archive

Estienne's Country Dance Book

Palmer's Pocket Playford

Dances from Pride and Prejudice

Dance Instructions from Pride & Prejudice

The Sound of Music Landler

Dances from 1996 Strafford Ball

Dances from 1995 Strafford Ball

Elements of English Country Dance

CDSS Webserver (Country Dance and Song Society)

EFDSS Home Page (English Folk Dance and Song Society)

AADS (Anglo-American Dance Service, Belgium)

Christmas Carol Dances

Country Dance Companion
The Lost Dances of Earthly Delights

Other country/contra links

Dance Directory - English Country Dancing Links
Transcription of Playford, 1651.
MIDI and ABC-format files for music from Playford, 1651.
The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium by Robert M. Keller
Transition From Renaissance Dance To Baroque Dance includes a section on ECD.

Bordonian Heritage Dancers English Country Dance Displays

VINTAGE DANCE
Vintage Dancing (by JEF Enterprises)
Dance History Archives - The Polka
Bordonian Heritage Dancers, Australia
Commonwealth Vintage Dancers
Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance
Victorian Events Calendar
Patterns from the Past
Vintage Victorian
Lansdowne Vintage Dancers
Lavolta Press
Vintage Dancing Information
Elegant Arts Society
John Garden - Historian, Teacher, Dance Writer & Musician
Richard Powers, Dance Historian
Jane Austen Society
Austentation 
Dance Card Museum

18th and 19th Century Ballroom Dance
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
Cincinnati Argentine Tango Society
The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers
Dance
Dancing for Busy People
Dancetime Publications
Folkfire The Folk and Ethnic, Dance & Music Resource
Grand Traditions Vintage Dance Academy
Historic and Vintage Dance Teaching and Performance
Institute of Historical Dance
Historical Dance Links
Lexington Vintage Dance Society
Library of Congress Dance Instruction Manuals
Louisiane VIntage Dancers based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA
MiXED PiCKLES
Newport Vintage Dance Week
Past Patterns
PEERS
The Pomander Club
Split Tree Farm
Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble
Victorian Dance Events
Vintage Dance Index
Vintage Dance Society

MODERN DANCE

All That Dance! Louisville Kentucky, USA

DANCE QUOTES

 

Dance Quotes
More Dance Quotes 
Dance Quotes from Various Genres

MAILING LISTS

Rendance: Renaissance Dance Mailing List
Feuillet: Baroque Dance Mailing List
HG Hurdy Gurdy Mailing List
ECD: English Country Dance Mailing List

Earthly Delights Upcoming Dance Events in Canberra, Australia

 


 

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