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The Lively Arts History Association:

The Lively Arts History Association ("LAHA") is an organization dedicated to fostering an understanding of history through the the performing arts. LAHA is a resource which can be called upon by historic sites, museums, civic organizations, educators and others interested in making history accessible and interesting. It is also a facilitator to help groups and individuals with an interest in public historical education, present larger, more ambitious, higher quality, better publicized and more effective programs.

Dance Manuals:

 The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another.

More Dance Manuals:

Within these files can be found the contents of 236 dance manuals and related books, mostly from the 19th century. they are formated as Text (SGML), or as Images (GIF), or both. Most web browsers will display the text in a readable format.

One of these days I'll find a good SGML to HTML converter, and the text files will look alot better. The Image files average about 50K per page in size.

Riverside Dickens Festival: