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Vintage Dance is the authentic recreation of historical dance styles. A term is too utilized specifically to denote re-creation of the dances of the English Regency (1795-1820), American Civil War (1860s), Victorian, and Ragtime eras.
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Grand Traditions Vintage Dance Academy
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.
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.
Lansdowne Vintage Dancers
Based in the Philadelphia area. Includes information about upcoming events.
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.
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