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Information material about historical dance
Here you will find a compilation of important directories of dance sources. A great number of these sources are now accessible online.
Our extensive bibliography lists secondary literature on historical dance published starting in 2015.
Those looking for dance practicewill find what they are looking for in our dance calendar and dance group directory.
Dance sources
Links to the originals
Dance calendar
Workshops, balls, etc.
Bibliography
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Dance & History online eng
Dance & History online
Programme 2025
Registration 2025
All conferences
Our online conferences
Inspired by the pandemic experience, we have developed a format for an annual online meeting.
For one weekend, the focus is on historical dance in all its variety. A series of presentations provide insights into historical backgrounds, into the lives of dancers and dancing masters, into dance styles and dance techniques, and last but not least, into modern artistic engagement with this field.
Via the online...
Wikipedia eng
Project "Wikipedia"
Information sourceWikipedia
The online encyclopedia "Wikipedia" is a very widespread source of information worldwide for a variety of fields of knowledge.
There are also many articles about historical dance.
Our project group
In order to expand this subject area in the encyclopedia, we founded a project group in the summer of 2023.
Its task is to update existing articles and add missing entries. An option for the future is the supplementary provision of high-quality video material.
Discover more:
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Baroque Ballet eng
Baroque Ballet
Our project "Baroque Ballet"
La Belle Danse, the French dance style of the early18th century, formed the essential social dance repertoire of a well-trained aristocracy and bourgeois upper class.
But it also had a decisive influence on stage dance, especially the style serieux. Thus it also forms the essential basis of the later classical ballet.
Advanced training workshops for dance pedagogues
Due to its wide technical range and its closeness to ballet, this style is an ideal addition and extension to the repertoire of ballet schools and dance institutes.
With introductory...
Digitalisierung eng
Project Digitization
Digitization of dance sources
Over the last decades, many dance sources have been digitized and made accessible online by libraries. Research on these texts has thus been greatly facilitated.
However, other important works are not yet available digitally. With our digitization project, we want to make more important sources available online.
Derra de Moroda Dance Archives
Dance & History e.V. has therefore launched a collaboration with the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives in Salzburg to digitize a number of works held there and make them accessible online. As a...
Tanzkalender eng
Kurse, Bälle, Tanzklassen, Auftritte
Sekundärliteratur
Tanzquellen
Tanzgruppen
Tanzkalender
Als Kalender für Tanzkurse, Tanzfeste und -aufführungen im Bereich des Historischen Tanzes hat sich seit vielen Jahren die Website www.earlydance.org bewährt. Hier finden sich auch viele Veranstaltungen im europäischen Ausland.
Ein Tanzkalender ist umso wertvoller, je vollständiger er ist. Deshalb sind alle herzlich eingeladen, ihre Veranstaltungen dort einzutragen (nach vorheriger Registrierung)....