Term 3 Classes will now be held on Monday evenings from 6pm, in a new venue at Evolution PC Studios in St Leonards/Crows Nest. Please see Schedule and Class Brochure for full details. Thank you to all our dedicated students ready to adjust to a new time and place after so many years at the hall in North Sydney.
New students are most welcome – no previous experience or partner required. Just email or sms to let us know you’re coming, providing name and contact details.
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!
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!
With sincere apologies, we must CANCEL the EDC Christmas Party (Thursday Dec 18) due to COVID-19.
We wish everyone good health and cheer over the festive summer holiday and a peaceful 2026, when we hope to catch up again.
With our very best wishes, and thanks for your interest in sharing our choreographic niche,
Fiona & John.
Just a reminder that, as the year races by and we all get caught up in Christmas and holiday preparations , early-bird enrolment for the Summer Course (January 7-9) will close on Friday, December 19.
An invitation to current, past and prospective students & friends:
The 2025 EDC Christmas Party will be held on
Thursday 18th December, 6.30pm – 9.00pm,
at the usual venue: 181 Blues Point Road, North Sydney.
Please come and join us for a little festive dancing, a look at some of the dances we’ve been learning this year, and to catch up with dear friends
We welcome contributions for the table (simple finger food ready to eat, or something non-alcoholic to drink – cups, plates &c provided).
Hope you and your dance shoes can make it.
Warm wishes for Christmas, New Year, Summer Holidays (should you be so lucky),
and for the New Year ‘26.
Fiona & John
Baroque & beyond
An invitation to our 16th Summer Course in Early Dance. By popular demand, we are returning to the Baroque era of the early 18th century, and a little beyond, for a taste of some of the exquisite and vivacious dances of the court.
Wednesday 7 to Friday 9 January, 2026, in North Sydney.
Course details Brochure Enrolment
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
Our last class of Term 4 (and the year 2024) will be a get-together for students and friends, past and present. 6.15pm for 6.30 to 9pm. At the usual class venue. A chance to catch up on friends, watch our wonderful students in action, and join in the dancing.
See News page for more information.
