How are we Organised?

The considerable work of research and maintaining the website is carried out by our small unpaid volunteer staff. We therefore depend on support from you, our wonderful members.

A million thank-you's to everyone who is already a paid-up member!

RegencyDances.org is organised as a not-for-profit private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales, company number 08954986. The company owns and manages the website and raises money for historical dance research and the creation of authentic music for dancing. It is an independent and international organisation, and it not connected to or endorsed by any specific dance group

Our plan is to create lots more videos of new and interesting dances for your pleasure and instruction. Out of over 2,400 dances on our website, we only have videos of 56 of them. We want lots more - and the music to go with them. We hope to to commission musicians and dancers to create lots of new dance videos for you, and publish the music as new CDs in our Dance Masters' Companion series.

Please consider supporting us by becoming a Subscribing Members for £5 (GBP) a month.

If you are not yet a Subscribing Member - and we will email you your login details

Subscribing is entirely optional, and you will still be able to use the website if you don't. However, we do have a few extra goodies to say thank-you to our members, including...

• Notification by email of every new animation, video or research paper as soon as we complete them.
• Early access, two months in advance of the public release date, to all new animations, videos and research papers.
• Free sheet music for the 90% of our dances (those where we have it).
• The satisfaction of knowing that you are helping us to continue running the site, continue our research into historical dance, and make lots more videos and music for you to enjoy.

We promise to hold all your personal information confidential, and not use it for any other purpose. If you need help contact us at editors@regencydances.org

 

Thank you in advance.
Garth Notley
editors@RegencyDances.org

The Mission of RegencyDances.org

1. to help teach and promote the practice ane enjoyment of the English dances from the late Georgian to the Regency period (about 1775-1830),
2. to find or create good quality and historically accurate sound recordings for genuine dances from the Regency period,
3. provide information about genuine Regency dances of known provenance, and
4. any other activities and information deemed by the officers to be of interest to Regency dancers worldwide.

Regency dances are danced enthusiastically throughout the world. At a recent ball I attended in Florence, Italy I met dancers from England, USA, Australia, Holland, France, Italy, Malta and many other countries. We are an international community and I hope this site will help build up a common repository of dances for all to enjoy.

• Learn a new dance from the animations page - (click the "Notation" button for the dance notation)
• Learn the dance steps
• Search for a particular dance in the dances list
• Find where to get the music for the dance you have learned
• Search for your nearest group that specialises in Regency Dance, or add your own Society to our list.
• Find a wonderful Regency Ball to go to, or announce your society's next ball

The copyright in the animations and page text and images belongs to RegencyDances.org. The notations have been written by the editors, largely from original source documents, and are made available here under a Creative Commons Licence so they may be copied and used by dancers or teachers for non-commercial purposes - but please read the terms of the licence. We never knowingly use unauthorised material. Please email me at editors@RegencyDances.org if you have a concern

We are grateful to all the musicians who have kindly allowed us to use snippets from their music.

I am deeply indebted to everyone who has contributed their skills and experience to this site and especially to Ellis A Rogers for oversight of our efforts and his book The Quadrille, the most complete and scholarly work on dancing in the Regency Period that I have encountered, written by a practical dancer, dancing master and teacher.