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- Amherst Early Music Festival: Historical Dance Program - Information about dance classes at this summer early music festival, including a two-week workshop for teachers of dance, music and theater. Faculty: Carol Marsh, Kaspar Mainz, Dorothy Olsson.
www.amherstearlymusic.org/aemf2002-dance.htm
- 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.
www.heritagedance.com
- 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.
www.goucher.edu/choregraphieantique
- Coranto - UK based group working on dance from mediaeval times to the late 18th century. Information about concerts, educational services, and publications.
corantoearlydance.com
- Dance History Teachers Discussion Group - Discussion archives, and information about subscribing.
lists.fsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dhtdg
- 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.
www.dancethroughtime.org
- 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.
www.dhds.org.uk
- Early Dance at Longy - Annual summer workshop in baroque and late renaissance dance, taught by Ken Pierce. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
web.mit.edu/kpierce/www/longy/longy_summer_2002.html
- Early Dance Circle - Umbrella organization for early dance in the UK. Includes information about membership and forthcoming events.
homepages.tesco.net/~hugh.hp/EDC.html
- Earthly Delights - Music and dance band. Information about their instruments, performances, dance classes, dance history, dance terms, and some instructions for dances.
www.earthlydelights.com.au
- Encarta: Popular and Social Dance - From the early middle ages to the 1990s.
encarta.msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti=03C7B000
- Federica Calvino Prina - Italian dancer and teacher of renaissance and baroque dance. Information about future courses and performances.
space.tin.it/clubnet/fecalvin
- Forget-Me-Not - Cincinnati, Ohio based company. Performs and teaches dances from the renaissance to the First World War. Includes an overview of the dances, and news of upcoming events.
w3.one.net/~history
- 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.
www.lavoltapress.com/dance
- 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.
www.hofdantzer.at/index_engl.htm
- Il Teatro Amoroso - Renaissance and baroque dance-theater ensemble. Information about upcoming performances and classes.
www.teatro-amoroso.ch
- 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.
www.kickback.btinternet.co.uk
- 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.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml
- Master Hyll's Terpsichorean School of Dance and Deportment - Offers easy dance programs for 1700-1870 period balls and re-enactments. Based in Dayton, Ohio.
www.geocities.com/truebluelouis
- Nonsuch - Historical dance company based in the UK, with a presence in Spain. Site contains information about educational events, as well as books and tapes for 12th to 19th century dance.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pegnnsch
- Plaisir Courtois - Dance group from Groningen, The Netherlands. Includes background information on renaissance, baroque and Viennese dance.
www.plaisircourtois.nl/cgi-bin/index.cgi?language=en
- Società di Danza - Italian group dedicated to researching 19th century and historical dance. Includes information about balls and classes.
www.di.unipi.it/~balsamo/sd/soc_dance.html
- 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.
www.sdhs.org
- 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.
members.aol.com/tapestrylj/TAPESTRYSITE
- 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.
www.early-dance.de
- The Court Dancers - Washington DC based company working mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries, directed by Cheryl Stafford.
www.thecourtdancers.org
- The Elegant Arts Society - Information about renaissance, English regency, and vintage dance. Upcoming events in northeastern US, and classes in New York City.
www.elegantarts.org
- 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.
www.historicaldance.com
- The Jane Austen Dancers - Group performing dances from the English Regency period, based in South West England. Information about classes, public balls and performances.
www.geocities.com/janeaustendancers
- 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.
members.aol.com/wemakehistory/main.html
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