I do a lot of Renaissance Dance -- I spend time talking to a few of the on-line experts like Justin du Couer, Miklos, She'erah (previously known as Ellisif), Rosina del Bosco Chiaro (who doesn't have a home page), Greg Lindahl who happens also to have his own music and dance page as well as a big collection of images from Arbeau and Caroso, or Mustafa (Russell Almond) who has a web site of Early Dance music that is free for use in the SCA.

To join in on all of this you might want to subscribe to some mailing lists.

You can subscribe to the Rendance mailing list by sending a message to listserv@morgan.ucs.mun.ca with one line in the message body:

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If I'm not nattering on the net with these people then I might be reading the Letter of Dance or perhaps Serve it Forth if I'm thinking about food!

I'm currently working on the latest edition of Del's Dance Book. I also host the sca.org.au domain, including the Lochac e-mail list

Here is a picture of my pavillion, although that's not me standing in front of it, it's in fact Yseult de Lacy.

People looking for my Pennsic 30 photos will find them here, and the Pennsic 29 photos can be found here. The rest of my SCA photo albums are here.

I have some Early Dance CDs available for sale for people in Australia, people overseas may wish to obtain them via Eric's CD page.

Here are some of my favourite SCA, medieval and renaissance links:

Dance Resources

• Russel Almond's Basse Dance Project contains music and notes for 15th C Basse danses.
• Del's Dance Book contains notation and lots of notes for dance from 1450 - 1650 as well as dances commonly done in the SCA.
• Dennis R. Sherman helped put together the first rendance bibliography and has an informative web page.
• There is a project to transcribe and translate Fabrito Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581)
• Andrew Draskoy's Renaissance Dance page, and the associated Rendance Directory
• Joe Cassaza's Renaissance Dance Sources
• Rhod's Dance Home Page
• University of Waterloo SCA Dance and Music page, maintained by Eric Praetzel.
• There is an on-line transcription of The First Edition and The Second Edition of Playford's The Dancing Master on the web.
• The Library of Congress has released An American Ballroom Companion (hahaha!) containing dance instruction manuals from 1490 to 1920. (OK, so will someone tell me what the relationship between Caroso's Il Ballarino and American Ballroom is please?)
• Hoskuld's Gresley Page is the main available set of reconstructions from this manuscript.
• Eric's SCA Dance and Music Page contains lots of downloadable music files for SCA dances.
• Joseph Casazza has a page containing Music for the Dances in Arbeau's Orchesography

Music Resources

• The Internet Renaissance Band
• The Early Music Web Ring

Dance Organisations

• The Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society is based in the UK.
• Historic and Vintage Dance Teaching and Performance is a group based in the USA.
• The Institute of Historical Dance Homepage based in Belgium.
• The Society of Dance History Scholars
• The St Florian-de-la-Riviere Dance Mania is based in Brisbane ... too close for comfort one might say.
• The SF Early Music Society has some dance interest as well.
• The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing is mostly for teachers of more recent dance but they do have some early dance resources available.

Dance Publications

• The Letter of Dance - a newsletter of renaissance dance

Merchants

• Dance Books (UK) based in London has an on-line catalogue of books covering dance from all eras.
• Pegasus Publishing has a large catalogue including CDs of Renaissance Dance music.
• Black Swan Designs make excellent 15th and 16th C clothing -- highly recommended!
• Howdy To Your Face! provides garb suitable for SCA wear.
• Greg Lindahl's SCA Juried Merchants List contains information about Merchants whose gear has passed the "historical accuracy" test.
• Syke's Sutlery is another clothing merchant, also to be found on the Juried Merchants List.
• Lavolta Press publishes books on historic costuming.

Other A&S Stuff

• The Arador Armour Library
• Cariadoc's Miscellany
• How to make an Elizabethan Corset
• Medieval & Renaissance Games
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE)

Web Resources and Links

• Too Much Information! is a site I created and help administer.
• Medieval and Renaissance Games
• The Renaissance Creative Impulse
• The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)
• The Medieval Sourcebook
• Byzantine and Medieval Studies Links
• Anyone doing translations of any kind will appreciate The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
• Labyrinth Home Page contains resources for Medieval Studies.
• Medieval Technology Pages contains all sorts of useful information about Technology in the middle ages.
• The SCA Australia Web Page and the Lochac Web Page are useful starting points for SCA people in Australia.
• The SCA Barony of Southron Gaard is a similarly useful starting point for people in New Zealand, especially Christchurch.
• SCA Rowany Homepage is occasionally updated with useful information about SCA activities in Sydney.
• The Australasian Register of Living History Organisations Project contains links to re-enactment and recreation organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand.
• The Crossroads Medieval Village is a project to build a medieval village near Yass, NSW. They already have land ... check it out!
• Virtual Renaissance contains some useful information about the Renaissance.
• The Renaissance, The Elizabethan World site also contains A Compendium of Common Knowledge
• World History on the Web contains some useful links.
• Le Poulet Gauche and The Gilded Pearl are organisations offering a different style of historical recreation.
• Kyl's Medieval and Fantasy Clipart and Clipart Castle have some weird and wonderful stuff that might be of use to me some day.

Marie de Lyons (Loreena Johnson) is examining 15th and 16th Century French Dance. Her current project is Basse Danse Mineur.

Elaine Llanelli (Ros Howie) is examining 15th and 16th Century Italian Dance.

AEmilia of Syracuse has retired.

AElflaed of the Weald (India Ossenberg) is examining 15th Century Italian Dance.

Sybille la Chatte (Rachael Zavodnyik) is a prize troublemaker who's learning about anything and anyone she can get her hands on. Don't ask. You don't want to know where they've been.