Posts Written By: sbutler

An Assembly for Jane Austen: Online celebration of dance, music and costume from Jane Austen’s time

Find out more about the dances that were familiar to Jane Austen and her circle; how Jane Austen used dancing in her works; a spotlight on the only dance mentioned by name in her writings,…
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The 38th Annual Online EDC Festival 22-24 October BOOK NOW !

Book now with Eventbrite for the EDC Online Early Dance Festival at https://tinyurl.com/2pdthuf3 Our Speakers: outstanding choreographer & teacher Lieven Baert on Friday night and a special interview with Christine & Ellis Rogers about their…
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Announcing the 30th Consort de Danse Baroque, Baroque Dance Summer School 2021

This year, Philippa Waite's summer school will take place in-person in Cardiff, UK, as well as online via Zoom. Students are free to book as many sessions as they want. The sessions will run from…
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An Interview with Barbara Segal

Barbara Segal speaks tellingly with Carlos Blanco about her passion for baroque dance. Fine music is what inspires her dancing and the graceful movements that underline its subtlety. She also remarks on the importance of…
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MEDIEVAL DANCE: RE-DISCOVERY, RE-IMAGINATION, RECREATION

On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 7 pm GMT, The Historical Dance Society is offering an online event that addresses some of our questions about early dance. What happens when you don’t have any written…
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Learn more about medieval dancing at Winterbourne Barn

Winterbourne Barn is offering a different medieval inspired dance each day (they go live at 10am each day this week) and then putting them all together in a final routine on Friday 5 March. Day…
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Our own Nicolas Broadbridge is speaking to The Historical Tea & Dance Society this week

On February 20th at 6pm GMT; 10am PST; 1pm EST, Nicolas Broadbridge is being interviewed by The Historical Tea & Dance Society as part of their "Inside the Dancing Mind of...." series. To join the…
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Sancho: An Act of Remembrance

Paterson Joseph Sancho: An Act of Remembrance will premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith on Thursday 25 February and will finish on Saturday 20 March 2021. This one-man show is written, directed and performed by Paterson Joseph,…
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“Patrons and Pirates: Publishing Dance in the Eighteenth Century” — Jennifer Thorp’s EDC Lecture for 2020 is now available online

Last February, Jennifer Thorp introduced a large audience at the Swedenborg Hall in central London to the shadier side of the dance publishing world in the 18th century. Her talk looks at the ways in…
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500 YEARS OF MAKING MUSIC FOR DANCE

Last October, did you hear Sarah Deters' wonderful lecture about the history of instruments and their use in music for dance? There was a lot to absorb and now you can read about it, in…
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