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 14th SUMMER COURSE 2024 is planned for Wednesday 3 January to Friday 5 January, 9.15am to 3.45pm, in North Sydney. More details in preparation, but we know many of you like to plan!
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.
Please note that early-bird enrolment for the 2018 Summer Course closes on December 15. See below or go to Summer 2018 page for enrolment details.
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.
2017 Summer Course in Early Dance
January 11-13 (Wednesday to Friday) North Sydney
& Summer Ball 13 January
For details of our eighth annual Summer Course, see http://www.earlydanceconsort.com.au/EDC_Archives/EDC_2017/Summer_2017/Summer2017.htm
Our 7th Summer Course in Renaissance & Baroque Dance is just one month away, 6-8 January, 2016. It’s a great introduction to early dance for musicians, dancers, actors and anyone passionate about social history or period drama. No previous experience or partner required. The course will be held during the daytime in North Sydney, Wednesday to Friday, with a Summer Ball on the evening of Friday 8 January (all welcome). For full details, brochure & enrolment form visit
Just a reminder that Early-bird enrolments for the Summer Course close Friday 19 December (just after the Christmas Party). Don’t miss out on our very reasonable pre-Christmas prices.
You might even think about enrolling a loved one in the Course as a Christmas present, or treating yourself to something entirely different for the Summer break….
