Historical Resources from Performing Arts Directory

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 da

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.

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.

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

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

New York Historical Dance Company - Offers workshops and performances in 15th to early 20th century dance. Includes information about services and products for sale.

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.

Saltatio Vitae - Czech group performing folk and court dances from the gothic to the early baroque period. Includes background information on the dances in their repertoire.

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.

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 Companie of Dansers - UK based company directed by Madeleine Inglehearn. Information about baroque and renaissance dance classes hiring the company and their publications.

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.

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.