VALERIE WILLIAMS                                                  Contact
CHOREOGRAPHER    DANCER    MOVEMENT SPECIALIST

Choreography    
Performing    
Residencies    
Video    
     Links    
Early Dance    
Home

EARLY DANCE - Links

The Library of Congress opening page for the Ballroom Dance Collection

The Library of Congress catelog of early dance manuals - excellent resource for dance manuals through from Arbeau to contemporary works. Good source for 19th and 20th C manuals, like Dick's Quadrille Call Book.

The Library of Congress video collection - An incredible resource, miraculously paid for by our tax dollars.

Joy and Jealousy - a web book on early dances. Another terrific resource.

Nicolas Graner's excellent work on Arbeau's Orchesography. In French, so you can also work on your language lesson at the same time you reconstruct your dances.

Susan and Ken Reed's excellent site on clothing, including this page of hat types, Renaissance dance and Duello.

Andy Jewell's Vintage Dancing Bibliography - a listing of dance texts.