Category: Baroque dance

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Evening Classes in Court Dance 2026

If you’ve ever thought you’d like to try something that’s quite different, why not try dancing from an age when elegance and ease were prized over effort and exaggeration? Court dances provide exercise for mind as well as body, in good company, and accompanied by beautiful music of centuries past. What more could you wish for?

Term 1 classes in Court dance commence on Thursday February 5 in North Sydney. The term will run for 9 weeks until April 2, right before the Easter long weekend.

See https://www.earlydanceconsort.com.au/classes/schedule.htm for full details. Please get in touch if you’d like to join in or have any queries. The first class of each term is free to try, and no previous experience or partner is required. Hope to see you there!

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Summer course – thank you

Thanks to the wonderful people who joined us from near and far for the Summer Course in early January. Despite something of a heatwave, we worked hard and completed a number of lively, elegant and sociable dances from the Baroque repertoire, and enjoyed the great company of our fellow baroque aficionados (it is a special niche). Well done to all!

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Happy New Year!

Hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas, and are enjoying the Summer holiday.

Suddenly it’s 2025, and our Summer Course is just 1 week away, on January 8. Please let us know if you’d like to come along, as it’s not too late to enrol. https://earlydanceconsort.com.au/EDC_Archives/EDC-2025/Summer-2025.htm

Meanwhile, if you can’t make the course, our evening class schedule is up for the New year, at https://earlydanceconsort.com.au/classes/schedule.htm

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2025 Summer Course in Early Dance

beautiful & … bizarre baroque

Wednesday 8 to Friday 10 January, 2025
in North Sydney

An invitation to our 15th Summer Course in Early Dance.
The Baroque era of the late 17th & early 18th century is our focus again, as we explore both the beautiful and bizarre.
Noble dance technique was common to both ballroom and stage. It could be elegant and charming, flattering the noble dancer with grace and apparent ease. On stage it could also be majestic, dramatic or comic, as the occasion demanded, and as records show.
Why learn baroque dance?
18th-Century dance notation provides a rare window into some favourite choreographies of the era, for the ballroom, and for the theatre. They allow the possibility of embodying the experience of the courtier: the posture, gesture & dance forms forgotten over the centuries. This is invaluable physical insight for musicians, actors, dancers & historians: into musical rhythms and forms, into manners, deportment, gesture, performance & aesthetics.
The Summer Course provides an opportunity to develop an appreciation of this distinctive dance heritage.
Over three days, students will learn movements, steps & sequences in preparation for excerpts & whole dances in different rhythms. Fundamental technique will be introduced for newcomers, while experienced students will refine technique & style, and build repertoire.

No previous dance experience required. No need to bring a partner.
Go to https://earlydanceconsort.com.au/EDC_Archives/EDC-2025/Summer-2025.htm

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Winter Weekend of Baroque Dance

Historic Dance Delights invite you to a…
Winter Weekend of Baroque Dance, 2 -4 August, 2024, Canberra
Workshops presented: by Fiona Garlick & John Barnard of
The Early Dance Consort (Sydney)
Dates: 2 August (Friday evening)  – 4 August (Sunday afternoon)  
Venue: Church Hall, All Saints Anglican Church, 9-15 Cowper Street, Ainslie ACT 2602  
For Details & Schedule: https://www.earlydanceconsort.com.au/news/news.htm
Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/host/63129d888b09f6126d4d9470

Questions: contact historicdancedelights@gmail.com
Historic Dance Delights –https://historicdancedelights.org.au/

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Evening Classes in Court Dance

Term 3 Evening Classes in Court Dance will begin on Thursday July 25, and run for 10 classes to September 26. Why not take a step inspired by a more elegant, graceful courtly past with dances both solemn and vivacious, set to beautiful music and in good company.
Please confirm that you plan to come along, providing a mobile number and email address if you are new to the class. The first class is free to try, and no prior experience or partner needed.
See our 2024 Class brochure for printable information or visit the EDC website Classes and Schedule pages for full details.

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Courtly Ayres and Dances concert with Consort 8 rescheduled to 19 September

Members of The Early Dance Consort will be appearing as guests with Consort 8 in
 SOLD OUT!
COURTLY AYRES AND DANCES
A fund-raising concert to support St Paul’s Pantry
*** New Concert date: Saturday 19 September 2020 ***
St Paul’s Anglican Church, 205-207 Burwood Rd, Burwood
Tickets online & at the door $35 (concession $30)
For more details see Concert Flyer and for any further updates see Consort 8 website Consort8.org

* In keeping with the COVID-19 Regulations, social distancing will be adhered to