Over the last decade the amount of information available on the Internet regarding Renaissance dance has grown exponentially. In an effort to make the current wealth of information more easily accessible, I have begun compiling information and links in this database.
This project is primarily geared toward SCA use, so it will focus on dances and dance styles from before 1600. While I will link to conjectural reconstructions of period dances, I will not include original SCA choreographies.
All opinions on this site are my own unless otherwise indicated; I take no credit or blame for the contents of linked sources. All files linked to are © their respective creators.
If there is a dance or link that you would like to see added, or if there is information that needs to be corrected, please feel free to send me an email .
Ben Pung Lorenzo Petrucci (SCA)
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Creator:
Andrea da Gaeta Antonio Cornazano Bastiano Battistino Cesare Negri Domenico da Piacenza Fabritio Caroso Giuseppe Ebreo Guglielmo Ebreo (Giovanni Ambrogio) Il Papa Ippolito Ghidotti da Crema John Playford Lorenzo de Medici Marsetto da Perugia Oratio Martire Paolo Arnandes Stefano Thoinot Arbeau Unknown Various
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1 couple 2 couples 3 couples 4 couples Many couples 1 person 3 people 4 people Many people 3 men, 2 women 3 men, 1 woman 5 men, 1 woman 6 men, 4 women 2 men, 4 women
Source:
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Cod. Antinori 13 (Fl) Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabecchiano XIX 88 (Fn) Various Foligno, Seminario Vescovile, Biblioteca Jacobilli, D.I.42 (FOLj) Unknown Siena, Biblioteca Comunale, L.V. 29 Brussels Manuscript (1445) Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Ital. 972 (PnD) (1450) Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Ital. 973 (PnG) (1463) Libro Dell'arte Del Danzare (Rvat) (1465) New York, Public Library, Dance Collection, MGZMBZ-Res. 72-254 (NYp) (1470) Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. II. 34 (Vnm) (1475) Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Ital. 476 (PnA) (1475) Toulouze Incunabulum (1490) Cervera Manuscript (1496) Salisbury Manuscript (1497) Gresley Manuscript (1500) Nurnberg Manuscript (1517) Antoine Arena's Treatise (1529) Jacques Moderne's Basses Dances Book (1532) Il Papa Manuscript (1550) Inns of Court Documents (1570) Il Ballarino (1581) Orchesographie (1589) Nobilta di Dame (1600) Le Gratie d'Amore (1602) The English Dancing Master (1st Edition) (1651) The Dancing Master (3rd Edition) (1657) The Dancing Master (4th Edition) (1670)
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