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Home / Arts / Performing Arts / Dance / Folk Dancing / English Country Dancing / Playford
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- Barleycorn Country Dancers - Dancers and musicians who perform at renaissance faires in California. Includes a short introduction to the dances, and an opinion on bad dancers.
www.barleycorn.org
- Dafydd's Collection of Playford's English Country Dances - Reconstructions of a selection of dances, mainly from the first edition.
www.pages.drexel.edu/~white/dplayford.html
- Estienne's Country Dance Book - Descriptions of steps, and reconstructions of selected dances.
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/del/ecd/ecd.htm
- Lark in the Morn - Mainly 17th and 18th century dances, in Knoxville Tennessee.
web.utk.edu/~tkoosman/larks
- Merri Pryanksters - Information about rehearsals in California, plus descriptions of the dances from the first edition of Playford, with abbreviations expanded and spellings modernized.
www.pryanksters.org
- New York Playford Ball - Information about balls from 1990 to 1999. Includes a collection of dance sheets.
www.panix.com/~wlinden/playford.html
- Newcastle English Country Dancers - California-based dancers and musicians performing historical English country and Morris dances. Includes information about their performances, and reconstructions of some dances.
home.socal.rr.com/newcastle
- Reconstructing an English Country Dance from Playford - Article from The Letter of Dance. Describes the process of reconstructing The Bonny Bonny Broom.
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lod/vol3/reconstructing_playford.html
- The Dancing Master - HTML transcription of the second edition of Playford (1653), with scans of the original music.
www.shipbrook.com/jeff/playford
- The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium - Coded figures, facsimiles and other data for all of the 1,053 known dances published in various editions of Playford. Also includes some background information.
www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster
- The English Dancing Master by John Playford 1651 - The complete text of the first edition. Includes links to some of the music.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/org/Medieval/www/src/contributed/pc2d@andrew.cmu.edu/dance/playford.html
- The Strafford Ball - Annual Playford-style ball in Strafford, Vermont. Includes dance instructions for previous and upcoming balls.
thayer.dartmouth.edu/~cgl/ball
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