Period Movement: Dance and Fight Choreography

Movement (general):

Combat: 

The Secret History of the Sword

Medieval Sword & Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries MS I.33

Theatre Video Series:  Combat For The Stage

Actors on Guard : A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen

Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated methods and Techniques

Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay

The Art and Science of Fencing

Renaissance Swordsmanship : The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut-And-Thrust Swords

Swashbuckling : A Step-By-Step Guide to the Art of Stage Combat and Theatrical Swordplay

Fight Direction for Stage and Screen

The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe

Fight Directing for the Theatre

Dueling

The Swords of Shakespeare : An Illustrated Guide to Stage Combat Choreography in the Plays of Shakespeare

Medieval Combat : A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat

Period Dance:

Social Dance from Dance a While

Dance As a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present

Medieval and Renaissance Dances for Recorders, Dancers, and Hand Drums

Dances of the Renaissance

Country Capers/English County Dance
English Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master 1651-1703 - The Broadside Band
English Country Dances

 

AMERICA DANCES! 1897-1948: A Collector's Edition of Social Dance in Film (2000)

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume VI: A 19th Century Ball: the Charm of Group Dances

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume V: Victorian Era Couple Dances

De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii = on the Practice or Art of Dancing

Early Dance Part I : From the Greeks to the Renaissance

De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii = on the Practice or Art of Dancing (15th Century Dance Manual)

Video: Il Ballarino : The Art of Renaissance Dance

Dancetime! 500 Years of Social Dance Vol I : 15th-19th Centuries

Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music : Twelve Transcribed Italian Treatises and Collections in the Tradition of Domenico Da Piacenza 

Orchesography (16th Century Dance Manual)

Courtly Dance of the Renaissance : A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dame

How To Dance Through Time Vol. III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance

Dances of India - Learning Bharata Natyam

Learn to Swing Dance

Renaissance Dances: For Dancers Young and Old with CD (Audio)

Handbook of Baroque Dance Steps in Labanotation

Early Dance Part 2 (Baroque Dance)

Video: Dancing - V. 4 - Dance at Court

How To Dance through Time Vol. IV: The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance

Voltaire's Temple of Glory

Video: How to Dance Through Time Vol 01: The Romance of Mid 19th Century Couple Dances 

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume V: Victorian Era Couple Dances

From the Ballroom to Hell : Grace and Folly in Nineteenth Century Dance

How To Dance Native American Style: Beginning

Video: Dances of the Ragtime Era: 1910-1920/ How to Dance Through Time: Vol II

Dancetime! 500 Years of Social Dance Vol II : 20th Century

Christy Lane's Swing Dancing Today Made Easy for Teachers

Swing Craze - DVD and Audio CD Set

Christy Lane's Learn the Dances of the 50's & 60's

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