American vintage dances

[Sagitta]

Anyone heard of American vintage dances. Went to folk dance tonight at Cornell and they did "Salty Dog Rag", polka, and a version of tango -- forgot the name. Anyway, googling turned up that these dances "covers dancing from the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Ragtime Era (approximately 1850 - 1920)" or in short Victorian/Ragtime dance.

So, I'm curious. How many of you are into American vintage dancing, and do you get many opportunities to do it? Have you ever done it? I'm particularly interested in the more esoteric dances, such as Schottische
and Mazourka..


To facilitate responses vintage dances are listed below (taken from http://www.vintagedancing.com/dances.htm):

Victorian Era Dances
Waltz
Polka
Schottische
Mazourka
Quadrilles

Country Dances
Five-Four Waltz
Two-Step

Ragtime Era Dances
One-Step
Tango
Foxtrot
Castlewalk
Half & Half
Hesitation Waltz
Blues
Maxixe

[d nice]

Victorian Era Dances
Waltz
Polka
Schottische
Mazourka
Quadrilles

Ragtime Era Dances
One-Step
Foxtrot
Castlewalk
Hesitation Waltz
Blues
Maxixe

I'm spending every weekend from now till Christmas doing the above mentioned Victorian dances.

[DanceMentor]

I can really appreciate that d nice! You are truly a devoted historian! :D

[Sagitta]

I remember now d'nice some talk about this :oops:

So d'nice and any one else out there? Would "salty dog rag" be considered a vintage dance? Are there any that I have missed?

Thanks

[d nice]

Are we only talking about pre-jazz dances?

You missed:

The Strut
The Cakewalk
The Grizzly Hop
The Bunny Hug
The Shuffle
The Buzzard Lope
The Turkey Trot

I know there are others but thats what comes off the top of my head.