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Covering dances from the Victorian era through the Ragtime, 1920s, and swing periods. Social dance classes, workshops, and balls in Michigan, for dancers of all levels.
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Grand Traditions Vintage Dance Academy Academy invites you to experience vintage dance. We offer workshops and balls, focusing on dances from the mid-19th through mid-20th centuries. Vintage dance encompasses a great variety of dances. Learn elegant dances of the Victorian...Dance classes and balls in southern California. Includes the Social Daunce Irregulars' site.
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Past Programs of the Lively Arts History Association If you want to hear about history and vintage dance events in Southern California, type your email here subscribe unsubscribe Past Programs Here is a small sampler of the events LAHA has organized over the...Performing group for 19th and early 20th century social dance, based in California. Includes information about upcoming performances, and photos from past performances.
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The Academy of Danse Libre Libre was created by students of the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840's. With liberated spirits, they took the intricate steps that they had learned as children in dancing school and exploded them into...Specializing in dance from the 1860s. Includes some background on the dances, and information about upcoming demonstrations, balls, and classes in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Also contains information about their video: Civil War Dance Instruction.
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Victorian Dance Ensemble Ensemble is a group who shares a love for the grace and beauty of mid-nineteenth century dance, are devoted to fostering an appreciation for the dance and social customs of the Civil War era, and...Includes photographs of the group and their costumes, and essays on social dance.
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Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble October 13, 2001 comments and questions...Based in the Philadelphia area. Includes information about upcoming events.
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Vintage Dance in the Philadelphia Area Dancers is an organization of dancers dedicated to providing a regular venue for dancers to enjoy vintage dance. Vintage attire is not required to attend our events. We invite you to join us for an...Listings include period balls, vintage dance programs, concerts, exhibits and symposiums.
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Victorian Events Calendar To inform the calendar editors of events to post, please contact us at: victoria@burrows.com. This calendar is hosted by J.R. Burrows Company, the premier Victorian-Design Merchants on the World Wide Web. Please visit us; we...Victorian balls in Oakland, California, preceded by a class covering the evening's dances. Includes dates of upcoming dances, maps, and a mailing list form.
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Ye G.O.D.S. Society has been sponsoring Victorian Ballroom dances for over 20 years. We currently sponsor 6 balls a year at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Ca. We have live music played by the Brassworks of...Choreography by Richard Powers, intended to portray the original 1830s National Style of Polka from Bohemia.
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Bohemian National Polka Powers is based on a reconstruction by the Czech dance historian Frantisek Bonus (1919-1999 It is intended to portray the steps and forms of the original 1830s National Style of Polka from Bohemia, ten years...Background and partial transcription of this 1898 publication covering Irish country dances, quadrilles and couple dances.
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Leggett-Byrne Contents This fascinating volume was discovered by Aidan Vaughan renowned Irish set dance (quadrilles) collector, researcher and teacher, in an old bookshop in 1997 almost a 100 years since its publication. Most of the pages describing...Performance troupe based in Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Information about performances and workshops.
http://www.centuriesdance.org/
A recording of the music for the Congress of Vienna Waltz.
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The Congress of Vienna Waltz I tracked down a copy of the music for that very pretty waltz choreographed by John Hertz. I sampled the music from cassette, cleaned up a good deal of the noise, and compressed the result...Regular balls in California. Also includes information about classes, and photo and video galleries.
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Social Daunce Irregulars Victorian Grand Ball List subscribe unsubscribe To hear about history and vintage dance events in Southern California, type your email above Our next ball is November 26th 2005 7:30 PM-Midnight Photo by Audrey Wiechman The Social Daunce Irregulars...Annual May event in San Juan Bautista, California. Registration information and news.
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Victoian Scottish Workshop and Ball Friends with workshops by Stan Isaacs, Barry Lewis, Marjorie McLaughlin...Connecticut based group. Information about performances by their performing troupe "Polite Society", a list of dances taught, a reconstructed quadrille variation, and a discography.
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Vintage Dance Society Polite Society Home Page Enter...Article by Lydia Joyce on writing ballroom scenes in historical fiction.
http://www.lydiajoyce.com/goodies/otherarticles/ballroom.html