You mean you do these boring slow dances like the minuet in "Dance of the Vampires"?

No! That's just what we don't do! And please never mention Polanski's "Dance of the Vampires" to us, at least not as an example for historical dance! It is a great film, it is fun, but the "minuet" is meant to be - well, not an authentic baroque dance.

Many dancing scenes in historical films are far from anything people ever danced. There are exceptions, though, like the BBC Jane Austen productions. And "historical dance" doesn't only mean slow pace: There are galliards danced so fast you can't keep up dancing them for more than 5 minutes, and many baroque choreographies run pretty fast, too.