Playford

First (1/3) in a serie of three talks given in English and devoted to the repertoire of 17th Century English figure dances and its reference text.

After the generalities of use and the reminder of the historical context, I propose to guide you step by step through the English Dancing Master.

In this first talk program: 

1. – Generalities
2. – Historical background
3. – False leads
4. – Let’s open the book: orientation, numbering, proper and improper, music, …

• In the 2nd talk (2/3), I will use my ranking work done with the CND (National Dance Center in Paris) to do a structural study of the 1st edition dances starting with the Measure.

• In the last talk (3/3), I would like to mention the Revival movement for dance and its head figure, Cecil Sharp.

Cécile Laye's talk "Playford 1651 ... and more !" (1/3) in English

Saturday, March 13, 2021 

(France : 19h30 / UK : 6.30 pm / USA : 1.30 pm East ST / USA : 10.30 am  Pacific ST)

Registration: here

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Cécile LAYE is CHESTNUT’s artistic director.

She studied old dance forms in England with the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society,  Nonsuch History and Dance and EFDSS (English folk Dance and Song Society). She worked in particular under such famed teachers and researchers as  Anne Daye, Anne Cottis, Peggy Dixon, Ethyl Anderson, Marjorie Fennessy, Tom Cook and Alan Davies. In France she studied with Francine Lancelot, Andréa Francalancci and Barbara Sparti.

At the end of the eighties, she founded AMARILLIS, a dance company meaning to bring to the public figure dances of the Stuarts’ time and the English inheritance, as well as some aspects of history and literature, with the collaboration of musicians and singers. AMARILLIS was replaced by CHESTNUT in 1998. CHESTNUT took over its predecessor’s artistic activities (creating dance and theatre shows), its teaching (preparing dancers for Balls through a rich program of workshops and classes) and its publication ones (CDs, dance descriptions, articles on Playford and modern dances).

Over the years, Cécile LAYE has build up a strong experience as a dancing master and ball caller (French Renaissance balls/ English figure dances balls, or a mixture of both). She can pass on her taste for and pleasure in elegant dancing to beginners as well as seasoned dancers.

Besides her activities in the field of dancing, Cécile Laye studied dramatic art and staging, graduating at Cours Florent. She also graduated at Eva Ruchpaul’s Yoga Institute and the Paris school of Gestalt-therapy. She played Shakespeare, Molière and Marivaux in Paris and elsewhere in France and takes part in creating new plays and shows, for children in particular.

She draws on both sides of her extensive training, physical and artistic, to develop her teaching method.

Her constant aim is to understand the needs of a given group and of each person making up the group, to build up a class so that each person gradually understands the dance, becomes aware of his/her body and its expressive capacities, be it during a lesson, a ball, or on stage.

Playford 1651 ... et plus ! est une conférence en trois parties donnée par Cécile LAYE ayant pour objectif d'apporter aux danseurs un éclairage théorique sur leur pratique des danses à figures anglaises. 

Première partie (1/3) le samedi 27 février 2021 de 18h00 à 19h30 : l'English Dancing Master.

The lecture will be given in French. At other proposed dates, it will be spoken in English.

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Au programme de cette première partie : 

- Généralités,

- Contexte historique,

- Fausses pistes,

- John Playford et The English Dancing Master (orientation, numérotation, proper et improper, musiques, ...)

Cécile LAYE étudie les danses historiques en Angleterre avec la Dolmetsch Historical Danse Society, Nonsuch History and Dance et la EFDSS (English folk Dance and Song Society). Elle a en particulier l’occasion de travailler sous la direction de pédagogues ou de chercheurs éminents tels que Anne Daye, Anne Cottis, Peggy Dixon, Ethyl Anderson, Marjorie Fennessy, Tom Cook et Alan Davies. En France, elle étudie avec Francine Lancelot, Andréa Francalancci et Barbara Sparti. En 1998, elle fonde la compagnie CHESTNUT pour faire découvrir et aimer au public français le répertoire des danses à figures anglaises qu’elle s’applique à replacer dans le continuum historique chorégraphique européen.  Formée à la comédie et à la mise en scène au Cours Florent dont elle est diplômée, elle s’attache aussi à mettre en rapport le répertoire anglais avec certains aspects de l’histoire et de la littérature britannique. 

Elle enseigne en France, en Belgique, en Angleterre et au Amherst Early Music Festival aux Etats-Unis. Elle obtient en 2016, l’Aide à la Recherche et au Patrimoine en Danse du Centre National de la danse pour constituer une typologie des danses de la 1ère édition de l’English Dancing Master.

Cécile LAYE is CHESTNUT’s artistic director.

She studied old dance forms in England with the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society,  Nonsuch History and Dance and EFDSS (English folk Dance and Song Society). She worked in particular under such famed teachers and researchers as  Anne Daye, Anne Cottis, Peggy Dixon, Ethyl Anderson, Marjorie Fennessy, Tom Cook and Alan Davies. In France she studied with Francine Lancelot, Andréa Francalancci and Barbara Sparti.

At the end of the eighties, she founded AMARILLIS, a dance company meaning to bring to the public figure dances of the Stuarts’ time and the English inheritance, as well as some aspects of history and literature, with the collaboration of musicians and singers. AMARILLIS was replaced by CHESTNUT in 1998. CHESTNUT took over its predecessor’s artistic activities (creating dance and theatre shows), its teaching (preparing dancers for Balls through a rich program of workshops and classes) and its publication ones (CDs, dance descriptions, articles on Playford and modern dances).

Over the years, Cécile LAYE has build up a strong experience as a dancing master and ball caller (French Renaissance balls/ English figure dances balls, or a mixture of both). She can pass on her taste for and pleasure in elegant dancing to beginners as well as seasoned dancers.

Besides her activities in the field of dancing, Cécile Laye studied dramatic art and staging, graduating at Cours Florent. She also graduated at Eva Ruchpaul’s Yoga Institute and the Paris school of Gestalt-therapy. She played Shakespeare, Molière and Marivaux in Paris and elsewhere in France and takes part in creating new plays and shows, for children in particular.

She draws on both sides of her extensive training, physical and artistic, to develop her teaching method.

Her constant aim is to understand the needs of a given group and of each person making up the group, to build up a class so that each person gradually understands the dance, becomes aware of his/her body and its expressive capacities, be it during a lesson, a ball, or on stage.

"Gemeine oder gesellschaftliche Tänz sind zum gesellschaftlichen Vergnügen erfunden worden; deswegen müssen sie auch so beschaffen seyn, daß Personen, die sich kein Hauptgeschäft aus der Tanzkunst machen, dieselben lernen können. Sie kommen darin überein, daß zwei, und mehrere Personen, gemeinschaftlich nach einer kurzen Melodie, die in Bewegung (Takt) ihren eigenen bestimmten Karakter hat, nach bestimmten Figuren eine bestimmte Anzahl zusammengesetzter Schritte machen, und diese so lange wiederholen, als sie Lust dazu haben." (Tanzmeister Mädel im Jahr 1805)

In diesem Workshop erlernen wir einige Gesellschaftstänze des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts und versuchen vor allem auch an den Feinheiten der Schrittausführung zu arbeiten.

Termin:   9. Jänner 2021

Kurszeiten:   Sa 10:30h bis 13:30h (Saal 3) und 14:30 bis 16:30h (Saal 1)

Kursort:    → Tanzstudio Manhardt, Neubaugasse 38, 1070 Wien

Kursleitung:   →  Pia Brocza

Anmeldung und Zahlungsmodalitäten -> www.zeitentanz.at

In der Fülle überlieferter Gruppentänze finden sich zahlreiche leichte Country Dances und Contredanses – beste Gelegenheit, um mit Gleichgesinnten vergnügliche Tanzabende zu verbringen und dem Formenrausch der Original-Choreographien zu erliegen. Keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich.

Fr 21.8., 4.9., 18.9., 2.10., 30.10., 5x, 19:30 – 21:30
Kulturpark
CHF 150.00

https://www.vhszh.ch/kursangebot/detail/historische-taenze-17-und-18-jh…

The 4th Playford Ball hosted by Norwich Historical Dance in John Playford's home town has Ray Garrington as Master of Ceremonies and Stradivarious providing the music in the  Noverre Suite of Norwich's Assembly House.   Saturday 21st  November 2020, 7.30 – 11.00pm