LONDON (AP) -- Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don't put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though -- they much prefer English country dances that were popular more ...

Fans of Jane Austen and Bridgerton delight in recreating historical dances – but how do they learn the right moves?

Members of the Hampshire Regency Dancers practice their moves Sept. 10 in Winchester, England, the burial place of author Jane Austen. (Photos by Joanna Chan/Associated Press) LONDON — Ellie Potts ...

A group of ladies and a few gentlemen in Regency-era formalwear stand in two lines facing each other. They perform bows and curtsies before engaging in a precise choreography. The hushed noise of ...

The dances with the men leading and the women following included circling, weaving, whirling, twirling, sashaying and the clapping or patting of gloved hands. Some were in Regency period attire while ...