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"The Early Dance Circle [EDC] was formed in 1984 as an umbrella organisation to promote the enjoyment, performance and study of Early Dance in the UK. Its membership comprises individuals and groups throughout the UK and beyond.

The Circle’s recognised objects are to foster knowledge, understanding and appreciation of dance and its context in European society up to and including the twentieth century - and of its music and of other subjects in so far as they affect or are affected by Early Dance. ... "

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"The main objective of the Society is the promotion of understanding in the theory and practice of European dance from the 12th to the 19th century as recorded in the contemporary literature.

The policy of the committee is to achieve this by:

* Conducting and promoting original research into treatises on dancing and other references in the literature, drama and dance music of the various periods.
* The organisation of courses for the education of dancers, teachers, actors, musicians and the general public in historical dance.
* Holding meetings and conferences in which lectures, demonstrations and opportunities to participate in historical dances and their music will be given to members of the Society and others.
* Publishing articles conducive or incidental to the aims of the Society in a Society Journal and any other medium which will bring the information to the attention of scholars in related disciplines and other persons concerned with the performance and teaching of historical dances and their music.
* Developing good practice for teachers and instructors in order to promote skills, understanding and enjoyment of the dances, while incorporating current research.
* Giving and promoting historically informed dance demonstrations with music on the contemporary instruments.
* Fostering the growth of other organisations with similar aims in this country and abroad. "

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"Danse Ecosse is an historical dance group based in Inverness, Scotland. The group was established in 2002 and since then has been building a repertoire of Renaissance Dances as danced in the Courts of Scotland and the rest of Europe. The group uses published research based on original source material as well as working directly from surviving dance manuscripts from the 15th to 17th Centuries. The group also conducts research on dance in Renaissance Scotland. Our costumes are based on historical documents and portraits. "

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“Dance Books is now the only company in the world devoted to the publishing and retail selling of books, CDs, and videos on dance and human movement. We carry more than 2,000 items and sell mainly by mail order, though visitors are always welcome (but please 'phone first). ..“ Some Early Music Dance books available.

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“Enhance the atmosphere at your event for adults and children.

Create the Mood mixes and mingles with your guests as a character, teaches easy historical dancing, chats about amusing social history and entertains.

Babies stop crying, Small children become mesmerised and adults comment on how good it is to hear early music rather than the usual ‘pop’ stuff.  

Put a smile on your visitors' faces
Create the Mood uses experienced staff in superb historic costume, court and country, all periods Medieval Elizabethan to Victorian & early 20th century to suit your event.

We go to all places where people gather in their leisure time, indoors and out: historic venues and museums; community, arts, folk and heritage festivals; craft fairs and fetes; local authority and shopping centre promotions and receive guests at receptions, weddings and birthdays.“

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"The Company was founded in 1984, and is a group of about twenty men and women, of all ages and with a wide variety of occupations. We perform the social dances of the 18th century, in particular the minuet, in full authentic costume, and aim to recapture the spirit and atmosphere of the grand events that took place in the Georgian Assembly Rooms. We rehearse once a week in the Covent Garden area of London with our dancing mistress, the renowned baroque dance specialist Sarah Cremer. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Coranto Early Dance & Music was founded in 1991 by Diana Scrivener.   Since then, it has specialized in performances of period dance and music, because as Artistic Director, Diana believes very strongly that excellence of demonstration, authenticity of style and increased awareness of this important aspect of history should be promoted at every opportunity.
 
To this aim, the group has given numerous performances, both informal and formal, to a wide cross-section of the public and in a variety of venues country-wide.  This has allowed the social dancing of our ancestors to remain the vital and dynamic art-form that it truly deserves to be, by exposing it to audiences who, in other circumstances, might not experience, or have any knowledge of this type of dance.
   
Coranto was a recipient in the first round of the A4E Express Awards, supported by the National Lottery, through the Arts Council of England.“

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"Coranto Early Dance & Music specializes in performances of period dance and music. It promotes excellence of demonstration, authenticity of style and increased awareness of this important aspect of history in three distinct areas:

Concerts
Participation in a variety of events and functions
The presentation of workshops and lecture demonstrations

In addition to the performing aspect of the work, Coranto is able to offer a comprehensive consultative service to educational establishments and theatrical companies country-wide. With expert knowledge spanning some 600 years from mediaeval times to the late 18th century and using a variety of resources, this may take the form of lecture demonstrations, group workshops and lessons and tuition on a one-to-one basis. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Contretemps was formed in 1985 by Barbara Segal and Frank Perenboom as a dance duo. Their aim is to present the dance of earlier centuries in a manner that is both lively and entertaining, while still remaining faithful to the original sources. Working from early manuscripts, printed choreographies and contemporary descriptions, Contretemps recreates the dances of past times, with authentic costumes and the music of the period -- either as a concert performance or integrated into stories to heighten the dramatic appeal. Whether as courtiers at Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles, or Harlequin and Columbine in the pantomimes of 18th century London, their performance is supremely entertaining. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Consort de Danse Baroque is a historical dance company offering performances, lecture-demonstrations, school workshops, and an annual summer school held in Cardiff, South Wales, as well as regular classes in Baroque and historical dance around the UK and abroad. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Society, founded in 1979, exists to encourage the revival and enjoyment of historical dancing. Classes are held weekly on Tuesday evenings from 1930 - 21:45 in Cambridge, England. All classes include some dances suitable for beginners, who are always welcome. It is not necessary to bring a partner or to wear period dress. What you will need, if you join the class, is shoes that have a soft and flexible sole. Jazz shoes are suitable (but make sure the sole is chrome suede, not plastic or smooth leather), as are Greek sandals and Scottish dance shoes (ghillies).

Teaching is given mainly in Mediæval and Renaissance dancing, as practised at the courts of Europe in the 14th-17th centuries, but some attention is also paid to the dance styles of the 18th and 19th centuries. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The Society, founded in 1979, exists to encourage the revival and enjoyment of historical dancing. Classes are held weekly on Tuesday evenings from 19:45–21:45 in Cambridge, England. All classes include some dances suitable for beginners, who are always welcome. It is not necessary to bring a partner or to wear period dress. What you will need, if you join the class, is shoes that have a soft and flexible sole. Jazz shoes are suitable (but make sure the sole is chrome suede, not plastic or smooth leather), as are Greek sandals and Scottish dance shoes (ghillies).

Teaching is given mainly in Mediæval and Renaissance dancing, as practised at the courts of Europe in the 14^th–17^th centuries, but some attention is also paid to the dance styles of the 18^th and 19^th centuries.”

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"Bedford Early Dance and Music organises historical dance workshops and social events in and around Bedford. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Bath Minuet Company is a performance dance group who perform 18th century dances in authentic costume. We have been performing for more than ten years in such venues as Hampton Court palace, and the Assembly rooms, Pump Room and Guildhall in Bath, as well as in film and TV productions. We pay great attention to detail in costume, manners and above all, dancing. We like to demonstrate to our audiences, the elegance, the grace of movement and the harmonious patterns of 18th dance, and how these qualities relect the aesthetic values of the 18th century, as expressed in the music, architecture and visual arts of the time. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Barbara Segal is a specialist in Baroque Dance, the fashionable dance of Europe from about 1650 to 1750 and what is sometimes considered the forerunner of classical ballet. It originated at the court of Louis XIV and became known as the French noble style, a highly stylised form of baroque dance. This elegant, graceful form of baroque dance rapidly spread throughout Europe.

Not content solely with baroque dance, Barbara has extended her studies and her repertoire to cover the known choreographies in European sources from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. These range from the court dances of Italian Renaissance dance masters such as Domenico, Caroso and Negri to Regency dances, including dances of Jane Austen’s time, and dances of  the Victorians. …”

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"Stockholm Baroque Dancers is a dance company whose activities are based on the conviction that the 17th and 18th-century dance arts still have something important to say to us today. We aim to give relevance to the different dance forms of the baroque period and re-establishing their connection with music, singing and the theatre. We also hope to make room for new creations inspired by and based on the baroque aesthetic.

•  Our artistic activities include creation of performances in cooperation with musicians and actors.
•  Our teaching activities include dance classes for all ages and levels.
•  Our research activities include participation in seminars and a continuous investigation of the source material.
  

Artistic director: Karin Modigh"

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"Pied en l´Air is a Swedish society and an ensemble which performs with historical dances from the 15th century to the 18th century. Restoring dances from these periods is as important as performing them in an entertaining but yet historically correct context. Consequently, we take a pride in recreating dresses true to the period. Martin Cizsuk, textile researcher and craftsman, is our costume coordinator. With dancing, music, dresses and theatre elements, we try to give the audience a living image of the past.

Our members have long experience and educations from Historical Dance at the University College of Dance in Stockholm and other dance educations. The ensemble was founded in 1984 by dance teacher Ann-Marie Ulfvarson. We rehearse and have dance technique classes on a regular basis; recent years with renowned Kaj Sylegård (Kaj Sylegard) as head teacher. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Karin Modigh took her first baroque dance steps in her mid-teens, and quickly developed a passion for early dance that has since taken her throughout most of Europe. Today she works professionally as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of baroque and renaissance dance, both within her company Stockholm Baroque Dancers, as well as under her own name. To Karin, baroque dance is a living dance form, just as relevant and fascinating today as it was 300 years ago. …”

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“Held annually, the Festival was first launched in 2000 to mark the granting of the title of "The European Capital of Culture" to Krakow.

It was initiated in the era of rekindled interest in the history of dance, the need to return to the sources of the common European heritage and the willingness to come together and exchange experiences among a wide group of historical dance ensembles active in Poland and abroad. …

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"IHDP is an abbreviation for the " Institute for Historical Dance Practice ". This Institute was founded by Lieven Baert in 1992. Its main objective is to research, preserve and perform social and theatrical dances of Western Europe between 1450 and 1920. We do consider "historical" dance as a serious dance discipline and try to rediscover the old techniques and mould them into a performance for a critical public of today. Therefore we work with professionally trained dancers, musicians and performers who trained hard to understand the style of the different periods. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“FESTA CORTESE is the early dance and music group in Lithuania. It propagates the early European dances and culture.

The group‘s repertoire consists of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque dances, music and poetry. Early dances are court dances that need special knowledge to perform them. We can be thankful to some dance masters as Domenico da Piacenso in 15th century and Fabritio Caroso, Antonio Negri in 16th century and of course baroque dance notation according to Raoul Auger Feuillet which left us a great possibility to recreate early dances.

To create our performances we read various treatises from different centuries and especially literature of famous English and French authors of 16th and 17th centuries and we try to get deeper to understand life in the early society.

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International Dance Society.

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“The "Società di Danza" performs work of historical research in the area of 19th century dances, combining philological precision in the interpretation of old books of dance with the ability to recreate, creating new and old dances in contemporary social contexts. The Association seeks to revive dances that belong to the European tradition and which were lost during the 20th century: quadrilles, country dances, waltzes, polkas and figured mazurkas The Association activities tends to the rediscovery of the artistic technique which in 19th century made these dances the subject of interest of the greatest masters of dance of the time even before the phenomenon of mass entertainment.

From 1991 to 2011 has realized:

• Courses
• Grand Balls
• Summer School
• Easter School
• Seminars of Historical Dance
• Training School of Teachers of 19th century dance
• International School of 19th century dance
• Grand Ball dell'Unione Europea
• Cinema
• Television
• Performances
• Conferences

Courses

Fabio Mòllica has founded, teaching, courses of the Società di Danza in Bologna (1991), Modena (1991), Imola (1993), Reggio Emilia (1993), Ferrara (1999), Bergamo (2002), Milano (2002), Roma (2002), Trento (2002), Napoli (2008), Pescara (2009), Torino (2009), Pavia (2010), Salerno (2010).

 In 2011-2012 he teaches regular courses in: Modena, Milano, Roma, Torino.”

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“The professional group La Rossignol presents Italian Renaissance music and dances.

Their study of direct sources, added to historical, organologic and iconographic research and particular attention to the spectacular aspect of their work, has brought group members since 1987 to intense artistic activities in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Israel, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Russia, Greece, India, China, Japan, Romania, Cyprus, Spain, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Malta, Turkey, Pakistan, Austria, Poland, Brazil, Albania, Taiwan, Mexico, Vatican City, Australia, Kenya, Croatia, Sweden, Colombia, Bolivia, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Hong Kong, USA… with concerts and shows of great prestige (Venice Carnival; Festival de la Médina, Tunis; National Theatre, Algiers; Cusiano Festival of Ancient Music; Opera Theatre, Cairo; Villa Nocturnals, Milan; Cantar di pietre (Singing of stones), Canton Ticino; Music Academy, Moscow; Italy in Japan 2001; Song of stones; Sacred Arts Festival, Madrid; Printemps musical des Alizès, Essauira; Merano Festival; Erice Festival; George Enescu Theatre, Bucharest; Philharmonic Theatre, Ljubljana; European Music Festival, Sofia; Villa Borghese, Rome; Music in old Cracow, Cracow; Musical September in Arezzo; 2004 Olympics, Athens; Festival internacional de Musica antigua, Peñiscola; Vittoriale in Gardone Riviera; Concert d’estiu (Summer concert), Montserrat; PetersKirche, Basel; Santa Maria delle grazie, Milan; Ciclo de Música Antigua, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Palau de la musica catalana, Barcelona; Opera Theatre, Tirana; Salone Sistino, Vatican City; Medieval festival of Aya Aapa, Cyprus; Courts of Art, Salerno; Calderòn Theatre, Valladolid, Royal Castle, Warsaw; Seymour Theatre Centre, Sydney; St Austin’s Church, Nairobi; Segni Barocchi Festival, Foligno; Auditorium F. Losano, Bogotà; Sochi Festival; European Music Festival, Astana, Navy Pier, Chicago, Castel Sant’Angelo, Roma …).

Their portfolio includes collaboration with the greatest world broadcasting companies, consultancies and artistic direction, training and refresher courses, the composition of music for theatre shows and medieval dancing.“

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“The professional group La Rossignol presents Italian Renaissance music and dances.

Their study of direct sources, added to historical, organologic and iconographic research and particular attention to the spectacular aspect of their work, has brought group members since 1987 to intense artistic activities in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Israel, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Russia, Greece, India, China, Japan, Romania, Cyprus, Spain, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Malta, Turkey, Pakistan, Austria, Poland, Brazil, Albania, Taiwan, Mexico, Vatican City, Australia, Kenya, Croatia, Sweden, Colombia, Bolivia, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Hong Kong, USA… with concerts and shows of great prestige (Venice Carnival; Festival de la Médina, Tunis; National Theatre, Algiers; Cusiano Festival of Ancient Music; Opera Theatre, Cairo; Villa Nocturnals, Milan; Cantar di pietre (Singing of stones), Canton Ticino; Music Academy, Moscow; Italy in Japan 2001; Song of stones; Sacred Arts Festival, Madrid; Printemps musical des Alizès, Essauira; Merano Festival; Erice Festival; George Enescu Theatre, Bucharest; Philharmonic Theatre, Ljubljana; European Music Festival, Sofia; Villa Borghese, Rome; Music in old Cracow, Cracow; Musical September in Arezzo; 2004 Olympics, Athens; Festival internacional de Musica antigua, Peñiscola; Vittoriale in Gardone Riviera; Concert d’estiu (Summer concert), Montserrat; PetersKirche, Basel; Santa Maria delle grazie, Milan; Ciclo de Música Antigua, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Palau de la musica catalana, Barcelona; Opera Theatre, Tirana; Salone Sistino, Vatican City; Medieval festival of Aya Aapa, Cyprus; Courts of Art, Salerno; Calderòn Theatre, Valladolid, Royal Castle, Warsaw; Seymour Theatre Centre, Sydney; St Austin’s Church, Nairobi; Segni Barocchi Festival, Foligno; Auditorium F. Losano, Bogotà; Sochi Festival; European Music Festival, Astana, Navy Pier, Chicago, Castel Sant’Angelo, Roma …).

Their portfolio includes collaboration with the greatest world broadcasting companies, consultancies and artistic direction, training and refresher courses, the composition of music for theatre shows and medieval dancing.“

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