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Baroque dance is European dance from the 17th and 18th centuries. It includes social dance in the "Noble Style", and theatrical dance until around the 1760s, when Noverre's ideas started to transform baroque ballet into the romantic and classical ballet familiar to today's audiences. Common dance types of the period include the minuet, passepied, French courante, sarabande, bourée, gavotte, rigaudon, gigue, loure, chaconne and passacaille.

Resources in This Category

• Apollo's Banquet

  http://www.apollosbanquet.com/
  Ensemble of dancers and musicians founded by Thomas Baird and Hugh Murphy. Information about upcoming events, services, and the East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop.

• Baroque Dance and the Bach Cello Suites

  http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/mansbridge/mansbridge.htm
  Article by a cellist about his experiences playing the Bach suites for a dancer.

• Baroque Dance Mailing List

  http://www.rendance.org/links/feuillet.html
  Information about how to subscribe to the Feuillet list.

• BaroqueDance.com

  http://www.baroquedance.com/
  Dancer Paige Whitley-Bauguess' site. Contains information about classes in North Carolina, Paige's dance activities, the annual East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop, Craven Historical Dancers, a pair of videos, and arrangements of tunes to extant dances.

• Bath Minuet Company

  http://www.bathminuet.co.uk/
  Information about dance classes, the annual Bath Georgian Ball, and photo galleries.

• Blakeney Manor: Dance and Music

  http://www.blakeneymanor.com/dance.html
  Includes an essay on the social and political importance of dance, and Rameau's description of the menuet ordinaire, translated by Essex, as well as information about 18th century songs and musicians.

• Consort de Danse Baroque

  http://www.ukbaroquedance.com/
  UK-based company directed by Philippa Waite. Information about classes, their summer school, and products for sale.

• Corpo Barocco

  http://www.corpobarocco.be/
  Belgian performing group directed by Sigrid T'Hooft. Includes information about classes.

• Louise Pescetta

  http://home.earthlink.net/~dolascetta/louise.html
  Dancer and musician based in California.

• Matt's Baroque Dance Pages

  http://baroquedance.info/
  Includes background information, HTML versions of 18th century dance manuals, and an annotated collection of links.

• Seattle Early Dance

  http://www.seattleearlydance.org/
  Company based in Seattle Washington that reconstructs, performs, and teaches baroque dance. Includes a brief introduction to the dances.

• The Books of John Weaver

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/weaver/
  Facsimiles of "Orchesography" and "Of Time and Cadence in Dancing", and an HTML transcription of "Orchesography".

• The Covent Garden Minuet Company

  http://www.minuetcompany.org/
  London-based amateur group performing 18th century social dances. Photos, membership, performances, and a small bibliography.

• The New York Baroque Dance Company

  http://www.nybaroquedance.org/
  Directed by dancer and choreographer Catherine Turocy. Photo gallery, video clip, dancer profiles and information about workshops.

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