Dance

Analysis, music, and instructions from a collection of dances and dance tunes found in what may be the earliest of the English dance records.

See also Performing Gresley Dances: the View from the Floor on re-enacting some of the dances from the manuscript.

Historical dance, or early dance, embraces social dancing of the courts and ballrooms of Europe, and choreographies from theatre and court entertainments. The periods covered range from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth. DHDS publishes Historical Dance, a leading journal for research in the subject.

References to early dance, primarily in Celtic Iberia.

This project is a first-draft translation from Italian to English of Fabritio Caroso's 'Il Ballarino,' a dance manual published in Italy in 1581 -- a direct, word-for-word translation made using a transcription created by Lord Orlando de'Medici.

By bringing together those who love dancing, would like to learn to dance, like playing dance music, or enjoy teaching others to dance, the Academie creates a community to foster the art of dancing throughout the kingdom. We are dancers, musicians, instructors, but also fighters, artisans, and every-day people, who enjoy dancing and the dancing arts, and who share the vision of making dancing commonplace throughout Atlantia. The Academie is open to anyone who practices, teaches, or who is otherwise interested in the art, music, history, reconstruction, performance or theory of period dancing styles.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 685,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, and more.

Some of the sports, games, music, verse, dancing, toys, and other pastimes of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Despite the full agricultural year that most people faced, there was always time for folk to partake in games, challenges, tests of skill and general larking about.

Here you will find information on everything to do with European dance from the 15th to early 17th centuries.

Over the last decade the amount of information available on the Internet regarding Renaissance dance has grown exponentially. In an effort to make the current wealth of information more easily accessible, I have begun compiling information and links in this database.

This project is primarily geared toward SCA use, so it will focus on dances and dance styles from before 1600. While I will link to conjectural reconstructions of period dances, I will not include original SCA choreographies.

A collection of links and resources on western social dance during the Renaissance.

Philip Stubbes started writing around 1581 producing small tracts in which he sharply denounced the manners, pastimes, fashions and culture in England. His major work, The Anatomie of Abuses, was first published in 1583.

P hilip Stubbes had a gift for keen observatio n. Although his comments should not be considered to reveal mainstream thought or opinions of the time, (even his contempora ries thought him extreme) his virulent attacks on the abuses in fashion and English society provide us with a detailed, colorful and picturesqu e glimpse into the England of Shakespear e's youth.

Articles, reconstructions, and letters relating to SCA and/or Renaissance dance.

The ballad: its origin, nature, subject matter, and age.