Welcome to DanceHistorian.com the blog site of expert social dance historian Forrest Outman. Here you can find for FREE great resources to expand your knowledge of our wonderfully rich dance history. Enjoy! Note: My research focuses on social i.e. lead and follow based dancing in contrast to solo forms (ballet, modern, jazz, or tap), choreographed, or sequence based dances. Also: I utilize only primary source documentation in my research and believe in maintaining academic level sources and research standard, so you can trust what you read here and build off of it in your own research endeavors and quests for greater understanding.