Period Events and Entertainments Re-Creation Society (PEERS) - Dedicated to the performing arts of the past. Includes information about period balls and vintage dance classes in California.
Lively Arts History Association: Vintage Dance - Dance classes and balls in southern California. Includes the Social Daunce Irregulars' site.
The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers - Reconstructing, performing and teaching social dances of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Site includes information about the annual Newport Vintage Dance Week, and upcoming events in and around New England.
Academy of Danse Libre - Performing group for 19th and early 20th century social dance, based in California. Includes information about upcoming performances, and photos from past performances.
Victorian Dance Ensemble - 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.
Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble - Includes photographs of the group and their costumes, and essays on social dance.
The Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance - Cincinnati Ohio based organization dedicated to the preservation, performance, and teaching of historic ballroom dance and music. Site includes essays, bibliographies, and information about classes, performances and balls.
Mixed Pickles - Philadelphia based company performing American dances from the colonial period to the 1940s. Site contains information about the dances and their reconstruction, tips on good etiquette, dance cards, a bibliography of primary sources, and a calendar of events.
Victorian Events Calendar - Listings include period balls, vintage dance programs, concerts, exhibits and symposiums.
Ye Gaskell Occasional Dance Society - 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.
Bohemian National Polka - Choreography by Richard Powers, intended to portray the original 1830s National Style of Polka from Bohemia.
Lexington Vintage Dance Society - Based in Kentucky. Information about the dances, classes, balls, and performances by the Swan Salon Dancers.
Company Q - Denver based band playing instruments from the American frontier of 1865, for dances, re-enactments, and historical programs. Includes descriptions of the dances and the required etiquette.
Terpsichore - Her Votaries and Fashions - Background and partial transcription of this 1898 publication covering Irish country dances, quadrilles and couple dances.
Centuries Historical Dance - Performance troupe based in Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Information about performances and workshops.
The Congress of Vienna Waltz - A recording of the music for the Congress of Vienna Waltz.
The Pomander Club - Social dances from the 19th century, ragtime era, and 1920s. Site includes information about the group, the dances, and classes and balls in Palo Alto, California.
Social Daunce Irregulars Victorian Grand Ball - Regular balls in California. Also includes information about classes, and photo and video galleries.
Vintage Music and Dance Society - Connecticut based group. Information about performances by their performing troupe "Polite Society", a list of dances taught, a reconstructed quadrille variation, and a discography.
Historical Ballroom Dancing - Article by Lydia Joyce on writing ballroom scenes in historical fiction.
The Louisiane Vintage Dancers - Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Includes photo galleries, and information about classes, balls and performances.
Forget-Me-Not - Cincinnati, Ohio based company performing social dances from early 19th century to the First World War.
Ellis Rogers and Quadrille Club - Includes information about classes in London, his book "The Quadrille", and a photo gallery.
Bordonian Heritage Dancers - Historical dance performance and teaching group in Canberra, Australia.
Victorian Dance Society of The Amherst Museum - Based in Amherst, New York. Includes information about events, and background information about costumes and etiquette.
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