19th century

"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

Discover the diverse world of early dance and experience the connection between movement, music, and beauty through time at this Midsummer Early Dance and Music Virtual Festival!

Midsummer Eve is one of the spirit nights of the year, when the boundaries between the worlds are the thinnest. Let’s use this magic to travel in time! Though science says it is impossible we will use dance & music as our time travel machine. During this virtual Festival we celebrate the longest day of the year with music and dance from 15th to 20th centuries.

We will visit Italian Renaissance courts accompanied by ensemble Gaita and learn the connection between various steps and musical tempos with live music on period instruments. Darren Royston will transport us into the world of the Shakespearean England to connect the dance and theatre. We will travel with Hubert Hazebrouqc through the "long Eighteenth Century" with minuet to see how much its rhythms and even the movements changed. Edmund Fairfax will challenge the most common misconceptions about 18th century ballet and introduce us to dancers performing at magnificent Versailles, in iconic Paris Opera and in street as part of comedie de l'arte. We will visit the ballrooms and fashionable assemblies of Georgian Britain with Sasha Zargowski to learn the refined dance styles of the Enlightenment era. Elana and Egor Anosovy from Trianon dance school in Moscow will transport us in time and space to learn romantic and dashing mazurka à la russe. Charlotte Ewart will bring alive the convoluted history of British monarchy with her fun and accessible for the whole family session of dance. The Festival will be wrapped up with the Early Dance& Music themed Quiz and panel discussion with teachers to learn how they discovered early dance and a chance to ask your own questions.

The Festival will be held online on Zoom platform. The access link will be sent on the 20th of June.

More info and timetable

19th edition – Rome (Italy) July 25 – August 2, 2020

L'Humor Bizzarro

Early Music & Dance courses managed by
Il Teatro della Memoria
(Directors: Claudia Celi and Andrea Toschi)

16-17th century dancing: Claudia Celi
17th-18th century dancing: Ilaria Sainato
19th century social dances: Paolo Di Segni
Baroque & Classical Oboe: Angela Paletta
Recorder: Marco Rosa Salva
Renaissance and Baroque Singing: Rosanna Rossoni
Renaissance Lute, Theorbo and Baroque Guitar: Francesco Tomasi
Cembalo Accompaniment: Paolo Tagliapietra
Qi Gong Seminar: Angela Paletta
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Info about costs, schedules & venues on our webpage

tel. & fax (+39) 06-33267447 – mobile (+39) 328-3645555

You can use the contact form at this link

Registration with payment by credit card at this link

Spring Grand Ball at Palazzo Pucci

19th Century Ball 

20.3.2021, Palazzo Pucci

Via de’ Pucci 2, Firenze 

Società di Danza Firenze organizes the Spring Grand Ball at Palazzo Pucci, a 19th Century Grand  Ball in the marvellous historic Palazzo Pucci in the heart of Florence.

Waltzes, quadrilles, polka and mazurkas, contredanse and marches, galop and country dances.

The ball will take place in the Salone di Apollo and Sala di Paride in the special ancient Palazzo Pucci.

The dance program will be available in advance for the participants.

The historic Palazzo Pucci is an important historic residence in Florence.

Through the monumental staircase you can reach the first floor where there are the splendid decorated rooms, with frescoes, paintings, valuable sculptures, the Hall of Apollo and the Hall of Paris with frescoes by important artists of the 1500s. 

The first nucleus of the Palace dates back to 1480, built and belonged to the family of Antonio Pucci, then expanded with architectural interventions by famous architects and artists including Giovanni da San Giovanni, Jacopo Chiavistelli and Giovanni Domenico Ferretti. In 1901 it was declared a national artistic heritage by the General Direction of Antiquities and Fine Arts. 

It is located in the street of the same name, a few steps from the Duomo of Florence and can be easily reached on foot from the S. Maria Novella station

Participation by invitation. 

Limited number of participants.

Dress code: 19th Ball dress romantic period.

To participate contact

Società di Danza Firenze

Firenze@societadidanza.it

www.societadidanza.it

Christmas Ball

19th Century Ball 

8.12.2019, Villa Viviani

Via G.  D'Annunzio 230, Firenze 

Società di Danza Firenze organizes a christmas 19th Century Grand  Ball in the beautiful Villa Viviani  

Waltzes, quadrills, polka and mazurkas, contredanse and marches, Scottish country dances.

The ball will take place in the charming ancient salon of Villa Viviani.

The historical villa has also a beautiful italian garden with a scenographic view of the City  

The buffet will be served at the of the Ball.

Participation by invitation. 

Dress code: 19th Ball dress romantic period.

To participate contact

Società di Danza Firenze

Firenze@societadidanza.it

www.societadidanza.it

Gran Ballo della Seta 2020, Pisa

19th Century Grand Ball 

26.4.2020, Villa della Seta di Corliano

San Giuliano Terme (Pisa)

Circolo Pisano della Società di Danza organizes anreconstruction of a 19th Cenntury grand Ball in the marvellious historical Villa Agostini della Seta di Corliano, close to Pisa.

Quadrilles, waltz, polka and mazurkas, contredanse and marches, Scottish country dance and aglio.

The ball will take place in the elegant and charming main salon with ancient frescoes of Villa della Seta di Corliano.

A tea buffet will be served in the beautiful park with secular plants.

Villa di Corliano is recognized as one of the most beautiful renaissance Villas in Tuscany. Participation by invitation. 

Dress code: 19th Ball dress romantic period.

To participate contact

Circolo Pisano della Società di Danza

pisa@societadidanza.it

www.societadidanza.it

28th Easter School of 19th century dance and Scottish Country Dance - Società di Danza

Friday, 10 April  - Monday 13 April 2020

Castel San Pietro (Bologna), Italy

Società di Danza

Director: F. Mòllica, S. Balsamo

With the participation as guest teacher of Rachel Shankland (RSCDS)

Live music for Scottish Country Dance classes and Scottish Party by Ian Robertson (violin) and Andrew Nolan (piano)

The traditional Easter School of the Società di Danza this year will be in Castel San Pietro (Bo).

In a beautiful environment, we will have the opportunity to spend a few days of communuty life, and to study more in depth theoretical and practical aspects of 19 Century dance.

Program: social dance of 19th century tradition.

Quadrilles, Scottish Country Dance, Contredanse Francaise, Waltz, Polka, Mazurka and March.

The classes will be divided into Turner levels. 

Classes and seminars will be held both morning and afternoon.
 

The evenings will be devoted to parties.

Staying at the Hotel Castello.

From Friday evening at dinner to Monday morning at lunch.

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Program

Friday, 10.4.2020

Afetrnoon: arrival

Evening: Theoretical seminar: culture and art in 19th century dance in today’s life

Saturday, 11.4.2020

Morning: Classes of Quadrille, Scottish Country Dance, Waltz

Afternoon: Classes of Mazurka, Scottish Country Dance, Contradanse Francaise

Seminar: the dance Systems of Società di Danza

Evening: Party of 19th century dance

Sunday, 12.4.2020

Morning: Classes of Quadrille, Scottish Country Dance, Mazurka

Afternoon: Classes of Waltz, Scottish Country Dance, Polka

Seminar: history of 19th century dance

Evening: Party of Scottish Country Dance

Monday 13.4.2020

Morning: Classes of Quadrille, Scottish Country Dance, Mazurka and Polka

      Farewell Party

For further information contact: Società di Danza

info@societadidanza.it      -      www.societadidanza.it

The Ball
Pleasure - Power - Politics
1600 - 1900

The ball, a universal social phenomenon, whether at princely courts, civic festivities or private celebrations, has many new facets across the centuries.

Dedicated to the pleasures of dance in multi­farious forms and styles, the ball is also an arena for displays of princely power, staged rituals, carefully regulated forms of social contact, and advantageous self-representation. Not least, the ballrooms of Europe reflect the continent’s po­litical and societal developments, their evolutions and revolutions.

Our journey through three centuries of dance history not only leads us to the ballrooms of Vienna, Dresden and Moscow, but also illus­trates the transfer of dance culture across the whole of Europe. We trace the lives of dancing masters who once drew crowds to the ball­rooms and explore the various manifestations of balls on stage.

In addition to lectures, the symposium includes workshops and dance evenings, in which the most popular ball dances, such as minuet, alle­mande, contredanse and quadrille, evoke the atmosphere and sensibility of these epochs.

Conference languages are English and German. This time with simultaneous translation into English and German!

RESEARCH DANCE - DANCE RESEARCH: Our central goal is to bring together dancers and researchers and thus enable intensive inter­action between the latest research and current dance practice.

• A series of lectures presents the present status of dance research.
• Workshops give an opportunity to try out new dance styles and reconstructions.
• Short performances demonstrate current artistic interpreta­tions.
• A bookshop offers a wide range of literature and music relating to dance.
• Social dance evenings with live music help make a variety of new contacts.
• A celebratory ball with costumes of the pe­riod represents the culmination of the con­ference.
• Sharing leisure and programme together in the castle enables a time of especially inten­sive contact.

Lectures: Giles Bennett - Hillary Burlock - Eugenia Eremina-Solenikova - Matilda Ertz - Maria Cristina Esposito  - Dmitry Filimonov - Carola Finkel - Rebecca Harris-Warrick - Gerrit Berenike Heiter - Birte Hoffmann-Cabenda - Michaela Mettel - Nona Monahin - Angela Rannow - Daria Sundukova - Eva Zöllner

Research Posters: Maria Derkach - Maria Cristina Esposito - Dmitry Filimonov - Susan de Guardiola - Alan Jones - Michaela Mettel - Ekaterina Mikhailova-Smolniakova - Daniele Pascale Guidotti Magnani - Bill Tuck - Davide Vecchi

Workshops: Anne Daye - Irène Feste - Dmitry Filimonov - Susan de Guardiola - Hubert Hazebroucq - Rostislav Kondratenko - Guillaume Jablonka

Dance evenings: Anne Daye - Alan Jones - Barbara Menard-Pugliese - Antonia Pugliese

Short performances: Chorea Basilea (dir. Mojca Gal) - Cie Fantaisies Baroques (dir. Irène Feste, Pierre-François Dollé) - LA DANZA MÜNCHEN (dir. Jadwiga Nowaczek)

Scientific committee: Dr. Irene Brandenburg (Salzburg, Österreich), Dr. Anne Daye (London, Großbritannien), Prof. em. Carol G. Marsh (Washington, USA), Prof. em. Marie Thérèse Mourey (Paris, Frankreich), Markus Lehner (Herrsching, Deutschland)

Organisation: Markus Lehner, Uwe Schlottermüller
 

For extensive information on the conference, see: www.historical-dance-symposium.org