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The Interplay of Professional and Amateur Dancers in Early Modern Festivals

Special Lecture by Professor Margaret McGowan Professor Margaret McGowan is a noted dance historian and historian of early modern France, one of the first scholars to focus on the history of dance, in particular in the late…
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Dancing with the Romanovs

Historical dance as a genre is populated mostly by dance forms and styles of Italian, French and British origin. The discovery and analysis of new sources in different languages shed light on local flavours and…
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Easter Online Baroque Dance Workshop by Consort de Danse Baroque

Friday 2nd – Monday 5th April 2021 from 11am to 9:15pm (BST): Workshops for different levels of experience, from beginners to advanced students, which can be attended individually. Sessions will take place over Zoom and be suitable for restricted spaces. The detailed timetable…
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A New Collection of Dances for Jane Austen

The Historical Dance Society's latest publication A New Collection of Dances for Jane Austen is now available to purchase from their Online Shop. It includes a book by Anne Daye and 38 tracks for dancing…
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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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