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
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
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/
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.
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
In 2019 we celebrate our 10th Summer
Course, first held in 2010. New and returning
students are invited to explore and enjoy a
selection of dances from the Renaissance,
Baroque, and 18th Century eras, in all their
elegance and vigour. They can tell us much
about society, fashion, and music of the past, and provide a context for more recent dance forms, all part of the universal human desire to express joy through music and movement.
The course runs from Wednesday 9th to Friday 11th January, between 9.15am and 3.45pm each day. The venue is 181 Blues Point Road, North Sydney (close to trains and buses at North Sydney Station).
For more information see Summer 2019 or download a PDF brochure and enrolment form.
Our 9th Summer Course will be held from 10 – 12 January (Wednesday to Friday) at the usual venue in North Sydney. Follow links for full details or see 2018 Summer Brochure and enrolment form.
The Early Dance Consort’s evening classes in Court Dance will recommence for 2018 on February 1. See our Classes pages and Schedule, or download PDF brochure for further details.
Dear EDC Students & Friends,
Our Mid-Winter Ball falls on Bastille Day this year, so what better opportunity to celebrate with French dances of the Ancien Régime plus one or two from La Révolution?
It will be on Friday 14 July, 2017 from 7-10pm (later than usual), at the usual venue, 181 Blues Point Road, North Sydney.
Dress for dancing (and warmth) to match the Tricolore or French-inspired costume if you can.
Confrères welcome, and please bring some simple finger food &/or drink (non-alcoholic) to share (we’ll provide cups, plates &c), in the spirit of égalité.
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes from
Fiona & John.
RSVP 12 July 0400 104 969 | enquiries@earlydanceconsort.com.au
Entry $15 ($5 children)
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