Regency Dance Manuals

I am involved in, or have been involved in, a wide variety of "vintage dance" styles: Victorian, Renaissance, Baroque, Ragtime, Jazz Age, Swing and Regency. Of all of these, the Regency style, as it is generally practiced, stands out for its general failure to make much of an effort to recreate history. It is, essentially, the rediscovered English Country Dance folk tradition, as revived in the early 20th Century by Cecil Sharpe.

While I very much enjoy English Country Dance on its own merits, I think, when we are calling it "Regency Dance" that we should make some effort to create something that is at least somewhat historically informed. That is what I will be trying to assist on this website, where I will make available copies of some key dance manuals from the period, and also provide what I hope will be helpful analysis, opinion and instruction.

Walter Nelson