Posts Written By: sbutler

Celebrate Twelve Days of Tudor Christmas

Tamsin Lewis and her group Passamezzo have been having great fun with Lucy Worsley, talking abut carols and Christmas music and celebrations during the reign of Henry VIII for a BBC programme over Christmas. Do…
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Put some Spring in your steps with Lottie Adcock

19th Century for Court and Country Workshop. Saturday 14th March 2020, 10:30 - 4:30 (with an hour for lunch). St Olave's Church Hall, York. Lottie made an original and very graceful contribution to the EDC Festival in…
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Our Friends The York Waits have a Christmas Concert coming up!

Don't miss out on Make we Joye now in this Fest, a programme of carols, songs and festive Music from Renaissance Europe. Saturday, 7 December at 7:30 pm. Pay on the door or via Eventbrite.…
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See dances which haven’t been performed in public in over 200 years

This Saturday, 16 November, sees the launch of a new book by Sally Petchey, about the life and dances of Ignatius Sancho – a man who was born a slave but by the end of…
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DID YOU MISS THE EARLY DANCE FESTIVAL IN EDINBURGH THIS YEAR?

Our hosts, Les Danses Antiques. Groups from across the UK presented beautiful dances from the 15th to the 19th century. BUT DON'T WORRY, you can see some pictures on the EDC website Gallery now, and…
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National Theatre Archive Unboxed Tours

Up until February, a session with staff from the NT Archive will reveal the treasures of the collections and give an insight into how to use the many resources on offer. You will get the…
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A Very Happy Birthday to Dr Ann Hutchinson Guest, long-time Patron of EDC

Dr Ann Hutchinson Guest is a world renowned expert in dance notation, a highly acclaimed author and researcher on dance and is the founder of the Language of Dance Centre, as well as a Patron…
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Early Dancers love Purcell, Don’t Miss King Arthur

Purcell's magical opera King Arthur  - a spectacular tale of love, sorcery and patriotic passion (with full baroque orchestra) is on from Friday 15 November to Sunday 17 November at the  Normansfield Theatre in the Langdon Down Centre, Langdon Park,  Teddington TW11 9PS.  For more information and to book contact Book online  or call 0333 1212…
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Taubert’s Anniversary Publication is now available

Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, a magnum opus of almost 1200 pages, was published in Leipzig in 1717. To celebrate its 300-year anniversary, two Taubert conferences were held in Paris and Leipzig, bringing together well-known scholars…
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New Research Grants in honour of Ivor Grant

The Society for Dance Research has recently announced the Ivor Guest Research Grants, in honour of their Founding President and his legacy for the field of dance research. Ivor and Ann Hutchinson Guest were also…
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