Topics: Dance : Historical
Historical dances are old dances that have been reconstructed from the contemporary records such as books and manuscripts, paintings or drawings, and film.
Baroque
Baroque dance is European dance from the 17th and 18th centuries. It includes social dance in the "Noble Style", and theatrical dance until around the 1760s, when Noverre's ideas started to transform baroque ballet into the romantic and classical ballet familiar to today's audiences.
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English Regency
The English Regency is the period from 1810 to 1820, when the mental illness of King George III prevented him from performing his duties, and his son, the future George IV, acted as Regent.
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Medieval
European dance from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West until the beginning of the renaissance - that is from around 500AD to the beginning of the fifteenth century.
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Renaissance
"Renaissance dance" is the general name given to a wide variety of European dances from around 1400, through to the early 17th century.Dance types include the galliard, pavan, branle, alman and volta.
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Vintage
Vintage dance is historical ballroom dance from around 1800 into the first half of the 20th century.
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