The History of Dance
75 Video Clips Demonstrating Historical Dances

$9.97

This CD offers 75 video clips that illustrate the history of dance from the Renaissance to Ragtime. These clips were selected from two different videotaping sessions. The first was a public event, "Society Dances and Parlor Amusements in The Great Hall," which took place at the Library of Congress on October 15, 1997. The event, which marked the 100th anniversary of the Library's Jefferson Building, featured late 19th-century dances performed in costume against the backdrop of the Great Hall, with music provided by a wind band using period instruments. The second videotaping session took place in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium on April 14, 1998. The videos from this session feature a pair of dancers demonstrating specific dances or movements from selected manuals in the collection. All time periods are represented in these videos.

This collection of dance clips is the perfect addition to anyone interested in dance history or professional dance. Here are some sample clips that you can view. Each is about 5 MB so if you have a slow internet connection, it will take a while for the samples to load.

The below table shows the dances demonstrated on this CD.

 

Renaissance Clip #29 Cinq pas de la gaillarde (basic galliard step) Clip #30 Autres cinq pas (galliard variations) Clip #31 Passage d'unze pas (galliard variation) Clip #32 Sample steps from the Italian repertory Clip #33 Sample steps from the Italian repertory Clip #34 Sample steps from the Italian repertory Clip #35 Sample steps from the Italian repertory Clip #36 Pavane (pavan) steps Clip #37 Pavane (pavan) steps Clip #38 Conversion: pavane (pavan) Clip #39 Pavane (pavan) Clip #40 Branle Simple Clip #41 Branle Double Clip #42 Branle Charlotte Clip #43 Pas double for dancing the branle Clip #44 Pas simple for dancing the branle Clip #45 Last bar: Branle des Lavandieres Clip #46 Branle des Lavandieres Clip #53 Révérence Baroque Clip #22 Courante from "La Bourgogne" Clip #23 Sarabande from "La Bourgogne" Clip #24 Bourée from "La Savoye" Clip #25 Sampler of steps Clip #26 Pas de menuet de deux mouvements Clip #27 Pas de menuet de trois mouvements Clip #28 "Entrée d'apolon" (1st couplet) Clip #54 Révérence (Honour) Early Nineteenth-Century Clip #20 Quadrille: Step combinations Clip #21 Quadrille: Step combinations Clip #47 March steps, bow, and Slow French Waltz Clip #48 March steps, bow and curtsy Clip #49 Scotch Reel steps Mid Nineteenth-Century Clip #50 Polka Clip #51 Esmeralda (1st version) Clip #52 Esmeralda (2nd version) Clip #56 Schottisch Clip #57 Polka mazurka and the Gitana waltz Clip #58 Waltz Clip #59 Varsovienne Clip #60 Zingirella Clip #61 Five Step Waltz

Late Nineteenth-Century Clip #1 Grand March Clip #2 Quadrille Clip #3 The German "The Rope" Clip #4 The German "The Fan" Clip #5 The German "Blind Man's Buff" Clip #6 Waltz Variations Clip #7 The Washington Post Two Step Clip #8 The Washington Post Two Step Clip #9 Waltz and "Loomis' Glide Mazurka Clip #10 "The Eugenie" and Waltz Cotillion Clip #13 The Butterfly Dance Clip #16 The German Clip #55 Bow and curtsy (Salutations) Clip #62 Waltz Clip #63 Waltz (feet only) Clip #64 Heel-and-Toe Polka Clip #65 Heel-and-Toe Polka Clip #66 Cross Step Polka Clip #67 The Carlton Clip #68 The Carlton (feet only) Clip #69 Loomis' Glide Mazurka Clip #70 Loomis' Glide Mazurka (feet only) Clip #71 Waltz Minuet Clip #72 Star Schottische Clip #73 Star Schottische (feet only) Ragtime Clip #74 One-Step Variation Clip #75 Castle Walk Clip #76 Standard Waltz Clip #77 The Maxixe (1st Step) Clip #78 The Maxixe Clip #79 The Maxixe Clip #80 Argentine Tango Clip #81 Argentine Tango Clip #82 Argentine Tango

This CD is created to run on both Windows and Macintosh computers using an HTML menu to navigate to the various movies. IMPORTANT: These CDs are designed to be played in your computer - not your DVD player.