Antony’s collection includes over 21,000 dances from a wide range of traditions.
From Antony Heywood
Antony’s collection includes over 21,000 dances from a wide range of traditions.
From Antony Heywood
Dance Figures Index: American Country Dances, 1710-1830
This resource is a guide to the basic figures in all American printed and manuscript longways country dances in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century sources. 2,738 dances were coded. In addition to the usual information such as title, page number, source name, and date, each dance was analyzed for its basic figures and number of active couples in the longways minor set.
Compiled by Robert M. Keller
This website includes a large collection of English barn dances as well as tips for playing, resources for beginners, descriptions of terms, and more.
From Thomas Green
American Country Dances Online
This is a collection of dances that Russell Owen edited and maintained. The contra dances are also listed in The Caller’s Box, but the squares are not.
From William Watson
This database includes many different styles of dance searchable by dance title, author, publication, and recording. It does not include the actual dance instructions or accompanying music notation.
Hugh Stewart
A comprehensive description of each of the 50+ basic dance figures in ECD.
from Hugh Stewart
This online bibliography is Neil Kelley’s compendium of where to find dance tunes and descriptions.
This online collection of approximately 100 English country dances comes from some earlier collections (e.g., Thompson; Wilson; Wright) as well as dances composed by Ken Sheffield. Both the music notation as well as instructions for the dance are provided.
From CDSS
Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend Syllabi 1998-2017
This is a very extensive collection of traditional dances from New England as called at each annual dance weekend. A significant portion of the program celebrates the tradition’s roots and includes choreography for traditional contras and quadrilles, triple minor dances, singing squares, and couple dances as part of the program.
From RPDLW and UNH
English Country Dance Video Playlists
The Childgrove channel on YouTube is a repository of over 100 videos of English country dancing and is a source of instruction on how to dance many of the finest dances choreographed by Fried de Metz Herman.
From Paul B Ross