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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.
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HOF DANTZER, Baroque Dance, Early Dance,  Wir, das Ensemble HOF-DANTZER, bringen die Höfische Tanzkultur auf die Bühne Neue TermineSTRAUSS BALL 2004 Wir über uns, Bios, Rückblick, Ausblick, Angebot, Presse, Links English Version Last update: 13.11.2003 Email This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit...
http://www.hofdantzer.at/index_engl.htm

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.
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Society of Dance History Scholars  Contents copyright by the Society of Dance History Scholars, Inc unless otherwise noted....
http://www.sdhs.org/

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.
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The Calendar of Historical Dance Top  Cities now shown on event lists20 Aug 2005Guestbook deactivated11 Dec 2004Dances on the Court of Rudolph II. more Blick in Vdels Modellbauwerft Choreographies Early-Dance Events Gallery LinksTop| Introduction (E Einführung| Introduction (F Questions and Answers| Contact the calender| ArchiveThis Calendar...
http://www.early-dance.de/

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.
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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920  Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance...
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/

Information about renaissance, English regency, and vintage dance. Upcoming events in northeastern US, and classes in New York City.
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The Elegant Arts Society  Welcome to the home page of the Elegant Arts Society Renaissance Early Modern1450-1675 English Regency1795-1825 Vintage Dance1840-1925 Historical Dance at Science Fiction Conventions This site is updated at least once amonth; please check back regularly! Mazurka Workshops New York City...
http://www.elegantarts.org/

Discussion archives, and information about subscribing.
http://lists.fsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dhtdg/

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.
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Dance Through Time  e n t e r...
http://www.dancethroughtime.org/

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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California Heritage Dancers  Americans have a unique contribution to make to the world-wide cultural scene. However, the majority of our citizens are unaware of the richness of the art forms which have originated here and are unique to our land. The California Heritage...
http://www.heritagedance.com/

Dance history ensemble of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Performs ballroom dances of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Calendar of upcoming performances.
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CHOREGRAPHIE antique of Goucher College  ...
http://www.goucher.edu/choregraphieantique/

16th century to 1920s social dance. Includes information about vintage dance events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Historic and Vintage Dance Teaching and Performance  Click on the following link to visit our web site It focuses on historic and vintage dance teaching, performance, and events in the San Francisco Bay Area, plus research and consulting services....
http://www.lavoltapress.com/dance/

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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Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society  Dolmetsch to promote knowledge of historical dance. Historical Dance Journal of DHDS DHDS publishes Historical Dance, a leading journal for research in the subject. Books and CDs DHDS produces dance instruction booklets and accompanying recorded music, based on its own...
http://www.dhds.org.uk/

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.
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Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble  Ensemble is dedicated to the research, re-construction and performance of historic social dance. The group's repertoire encompasses historical eras from the late 15th through the mid-19th centuries, ranging from the elegant dance forms of the European Courts to the social...
http://members.aol.com/tapestrylj/TAPESTRYSITE/

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.
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We Make History: Where History and The Arts Meet  Please see our new page at www.WeMakeHistory.com Dancing is, of all the fine arts, that which seems peculiarly devoted to cheerfulness and joy We Make History offers authentic historic events such as Grand Balls, historical reenactments and in character speeches...
http://members.aol.com/wemakehistory/main.html

Dance group from Groningen, The Netherlands. Includes background information on renaissance, baroque and Viennese dance.
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Historical Dance Group Plaisir Courtois Welcome  Welcome to the homepage of Historical Dance Group Plaisir Courtois Historical Dance Group Plaisir Courtois (in Groningen, The Netherlands) is an enthoustiastic society that maintains historical dances, performed at the European courts in former days. The society consists of a...
http://www.plaisircourtois.nl/cgi-bin/index.cgi?language=en

From the early middle ages to the 1990s.
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MSN Encarta Popular and Social Dance  Spend less time searching and more time learning.Learn moreTasksFind in this articlePrint PreviewRelated Itemsdefinitionin context of the history of dancemore Further ReadingEditors picks for Popular and Social DanceSearch for books and more related to Popular and Social DanceEncarta SearchSearch Encarta...
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/re.../RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566939

Polish group performing court ballet from the medieval to baroque periods. Includes background, and information about their shows.
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http://www.ardentesole.art.pl/ang/

Annual summer workshop in baroque and late renaissance dance, taught by Ken Pierce. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Early Dance at Longy 2005  An intensive workshop in early dance, with emphasis on baroque dance but also including a daily late-renaissance dance class. Students may choose to take only the baroque or renaissance portion of the workshop. New this year: an evening-only introductory baroque...
http://web.mit.edu/kpierce/www/longy/

Offers workshops and performances in 15th to early 20th century dance. Includes information about services and products for sale.
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New York Historical Dance Company  Performances and workshops in historical dance: 15th-early 20th century Choreography for historical theater pieces Entertainments for special events...
http://www.newyorkhistoricaldance.com/

American colonial to vintage dance performances and workshops. Includes information about upcoming events.
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Yesteryears Dancers  We are a semiprofessional dance troupe of ladies and gentlemen recreating dances of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. We perform Victorian, Civil War, and Spanish California; as well as French baroque, Colonial American, Ragtime and other historic eras....
http://www.yesteryearsdancers.com/

Czech group performing folk and court dances from the gothic to the early baroque period. Includes background information on the dances in their repertoire.
http://www.volny.cz/saltatio.vitae/English/eindex.htm

Information about dance classes at this summer early music festival. Renaissance and baroque dance.
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Amherst Early Music Festival web site; Historical Dance Program page  For over twenty years the historical dance program has been a highly successful part of the Amherst Early Music Festival, itself the largest festival of its kind in the world. Students particularly enjoy the opportunity for performance, along with stimulating...
http://www.newyorkhistoricaldance.com/aem2005dancewebpage.htm

Based in Sydney, Australia. Offers classes and performances in renaissance and baroque dance.
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TheEarlyDanceConsort  To newcomers to the world of early dance it may come as a surprise to discover that there are hundreds of documents which record the social dances of the European Courts in the Renaissance and Baroque eras from the early...
http://users.bigpond.net.au/earlydanceconsort/

Renaissance and baroque dance-theater ensemble based in Switzerland. Information about performances, classes and recordings.
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TEATRO ARCIMBOLDO english  The ensemble was founded in 1996 by Thilo Hirsch. Through the combination of the various elements music, dance, spectacle, historical costumes, scenery and lightning the magic of the Golden Age is brought to life again. The success of this concept...
http://www.arcimboldo.ch/teatro-english/