The tradition
Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present. Today historical dances are danced as performance, for pleasure at themed balls or dance clubs, as historical reenactment, or for musicological or historical research. Dances from the early 20th century can be recreated precisely, being within living memory and after the advent of film and video recording. Earlier dance types, however, must be reconstructed from less reliable evidence such as surviving notations and instruction manuals. For performance dancing, see History of dance.¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Historical dance”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
historical dance is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 9 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.
| Source | Type | Publisher |
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| Wikidata: historical dance (Q549130) | database | Wikidata |
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