Early Dance Groups and Societies

Name Dance Styles Locations
Barrington Court Dance Dances done in Britain from mediaeval to Regency periods Dorset, Somerset
Basingstoke Early Dance Renaissance Italian 15th & 16th century, French Burgundian, First Ed. Playford, Elizabethan/Jacobean/Carolean Basingstoke
Bath Minuet Company Social and Court Dance of the Eighteenth Century Bath
Bedford Early Dance and Music Group Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan & Stuart Dance and some Regency Bedford
Capriol Society for Early Dance Early Medieval, Renaissance, Tudor, Elizabethan, Playford, 14th -17th century Cambridge
Chalemie Baroque, Renaissance, Playford, Regency London
Consort de Danse Baroque Baroque Cardiff
Contretemps Baroque, Renaissance, Playford, Regency London
Covent Garden Minuet Company 18th Century dances London
Duke of Wellington’s Dancers Regency Southampton
Dumfries Historical Dance Group Various Dumfries
Eboracum Early Dance Various York
Farandole Club 15th & 16th Century Dance Saltford
Friday Night Brawlers/Gaita 15th century Italian, Burgundian & English
Gloriana Living History 15th Century Italian & English; 16th Century Tudor & Elizabethan; Playford Stourbridge
Grantham Danserye Dances from the 15th to the 17th centuries; Medieval, Renaissance, Tudor, Elizabethan and Playford Grantham
Greensleeves (the demonstration group for White Rose) Huddersfield
Hampshire Regency Dancers Regency Winchester
Hertfordshire Early Dance 15th to 17th century dance, with musicians, & recreating period entertainments Berkhamsted
The Historical Dance Society Doncaster
Jane Austen Dancers of Bath & Bradford-on-Avon Regency, the Jane Austen era, Late Georgian 1775-1830 Bath, Bradford-on-Avon
Les Danses Antiques Baroque, Regency & Victorian Edinburgh
Mrs Bennet’s Ballroom Regency Surbiton & London
Nonsuch History and Dance Company Various London
North Square Historical Dance Dances done in Britain from mediaeval to Regency periods Dorchester
Norwich Historical Dance Various Norwich
Oxford Historical Dance Society Various Oxford
Passamezzo Early Dance Various Herefordshire
Pastime Historical Dance Various Barnehurst, Orpington
Quadrille Club Victorian Orpington
Renaissance Footnotes (performance group of Basingstoke Early Dance) Basingstoke
Renaissance Historical Dance Society Medieval, Elizabethan, Stuart & Regency Dance Devon
The Lady and the Fool
The Regency Assembly Regency Lichfield
The Tudor Dance Group Medieval, Tudor, Stuart & Victorian Exeter
White Rose Early Dance Historical Dance from 1440-1740 Huddersfield
Winchester Baroque Dancers Baroque Dance and English Country with baroque steps Winchester
Yeo Historical Dancers Various Yeovil