My Boy Can Dance

Let's get more boys dancing! My Boy Can posts this message, something that all dancers can agree with: MY BOY CAN was created because our sons aged 4 were told by children and adults that ‘only girls do dancing’ ‘ boys can’t do ballet, it’s for…
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“IN MOVING OR AFTER MOVING?”: the issue of the demi-coupé, by Ian Cutts

A new topic is now up on the Research Issue section of the EDC Resources page for current thinking about early dance. If baroque dance intrigues you, perhaps Ian's article will get you thinking about…
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‘None but Abigails appeared in white aprons’: The Apron as an Elite Garment in Eighteenth-Century England by Elizabeth Spencer

Find out why the Duchess of Queensberry arrived at the Bath Assembly wearing a white apron, only to have it torn from her by a Master of Ceremonies ... You can read this lengthy, learned and…
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The Jane Austen Festival Country Dance Ball

14 September 2019 8:00 - 11:00 pm Assembly Rooms, Bath. Priority booking for Festival Friends opens on Monday 17th June. Tickets go on general sale from Bath Box Office on Monday 1st July at https://www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk/booking-and-tickets/…
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The Annual Jane Austen Festival is coming up!

The Festival runs from 13-22 September.Priority booking for Festival Friends opens on Monday 17th June. Tickets go on general sale from Bath Box Office on Monday 1st July. Visit: https://www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk/booking-and-tickets/ GET IN EARLY TO BOOK!…
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Calling all Historians of Renaissance Dance

Society for Renaissance Studies, 9th Biennial Conference, 7-9 July, 2020 University of East Anglia, Norwich. Proposals for panels (90 minutes, including discussion) and individual papers (20 minutes) should be be sent to srs.2020@uea.ac.uk by 1 September 2019.http://www.rensoc.org.uk/9thconference The conference committee…
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In Pursuit of the Firebird

A Ballets Russes Exhibition at Bonhams will run at 101 New Bond Street from May 28 until June 5. Scheduled to run during Russian Art Week alongside the Russian Art sale preview, Bonhams' special exhibition…
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Quadrille Club on Elgar at the Asylum — Learning the Dances

10:30 to 4:30 June 16, 2019 Ellis Rogers will be teaching dances to the music of Edward Elgar, who was Bandmaster to the Worcester City Lunatic Asylum for nearly 5 years from 1879. Come along…
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But how do you know how they danced so long ago?

Passamezzo Summer 2016 Are you curious abut how we try to reconstruct the dancing of hundreds of years ago? David Wilson's Annual EDC Lecture of 2003 gives a broad overview of the earliest dancing that…
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The Fairest Lady — A Fresh Baroque Spectacular Directed by Evelyn Nallen

June 5, 2019 at 4 pm in the Georgian Theatre Royal, Victoria Rd, Richmond DL10 4DW and at South Hill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell, Berks RG12 7PA A retelling of the Pygmalion story with elegant baroque dance, stunning costumes,…
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