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Street Swing: Dance History Archives: The Quadrille
This website has a history of the quadrille dance, in addition to a list of artists, politicians, and dancers featured in this dance.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Square Dancing
Square dancing has been part of American culture since the colonial settlers blended their varied traditions together. Contains historic photos, and an audio track of "Gents Go Center." Requires RealPlayer.
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Jazz Dance History: Jack Cole
The influence and importance of Jack Cole in the development of jazz dance in the theater, includes shows he choreographed.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
Central Home
Central Home: Cha Cha Dance History
Click on mambo and the history of the dance is described. It tells how this led to the development of the cha cha.
Central Home
Central Home: centralhome.com: History of Dance
Visit this site for information on a variety of dance forms. It gives background information on the origination of the dances and how to perform the dances.
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Elements of English Country Dance
Contains list of English Country Dances steps with instructions on how to dance.
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Ballroom dancers.com: Learn the Dance
This site contains information on the history and styles of ballroom dances. Find the type of dance you're interested in and the site will provide an overview, syllabus, featured steps, and even music.
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International Tap Association: An Ongoing History of Rhythm
Describes famous tap dancers and styles in tap dance history.
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Parsons Dance Company
Profiles the dancers of the relatively new company and its primary choreographer, David Parsons, a former dancer with Paul Taylor. Offers history and video links.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Dancing Videos
The Rabbit Dance, the Duck Dance and the Fancy Jig are taught in these three videos demonstrating Metis dance techniques. There is an order form if you should wish to purchase the videos after watching them.
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Sets Steps and Ceilis: Irish Dancing
This site offers a history of set, step and Ceilis dance. Check it out!
International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History: Youthful Dance Steps
From the International Institute of Social History this is "Youthful dance steps" a Chinese political propaganda poster by Wang Bingkun, 1986.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture
This user-friendly site takes a close look at Metis history and culture through the use of many primary resources including oral histories, audio and video files, art, interviews, documents, and more. Very comprehensive site.
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The Weekly South Dakotan: South Dakota History for 4th Grade
From the very beginning and through the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection of lessons will enrich students studying the history in between and the effects on South Dakota.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: "Fiddle About" Videos
This is a collection of video clips from a video called "Fiddle About". They teach about the Metis style of fiddling and some dances the tunes would accompany.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Eastern Shoshone: Hide Painting of the Sun Dance
Painting on animal hides is a longstanding tradition of the Great Basin and Great Plains people of the United States. Painting, in tandem with oral traditions, functioned to record history.Cotsiogo, a member of the Eastern Shoshone...
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African American Registry: The Cakewalk, a Black Expression Through Dance
This resource presents an article on the Cakewalk, a popular dance in the early 1900s that originated with black slaves impersonating their masters.
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Cambridge University: The History of Salsa
A good introduction to the history of Salsa music and dance, covering all the periods of Salsa dance.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
The art of medieval India, like the art of medieval Europe, was primarily in the service of religion. The supple and expressive quality of the dancing Shiva is one of the touchstones of South Asian, and indeed, world sculpture. View...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Women's Rights
Such social reforms brought many women to a realization of their own unequal position in society. From colonial times, unmarried women had enjoyed many of the same legal rights as men, although custom required that they marry early. With...
Library of Congress
Loc: Eighteenth Centry Dance Instruction Manuals
Primary source documents from the Library of Congress's American Memory collection about how people in the eighteenth century learned to dance. Page through a dozen manuals from the era that give details about how dances and dance...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Scottish Step Dancing
This interesting ibiblio.org site offers information, history, stories, and more on Scottish step dancing.
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