Nonsuch Summer School

Join us on this exciting and fun residential dance & theatre course where we will explore the Dance of the Deadly Sins. With the Nonsuch Dancers you’ll take a dancing trip through history…

Come and join the Nonsuch Dancers this summer for a fully residential dance course. Learning alongside our professional company of dancers and actors dressed in period costumes; you will dance circle dances, line dances, ballroom dances, processions and patterns – connecting to different historical periods, with music, art, costume and evening dances.

Watch performances and demonstrations, be instructed all the way from your first step to your final bow and even join in with the performances as well! You will have the chance to work in separate groups with different technical skills.

Music Option:- If you would like to explore Early Music for Dance as an option please let us know.

Optional activities include talks, lectures and local history trips or take the opportunity to explore the local area for yourself. There is no need to bring a partner - the course welcomes adults of all ages.

Ashville College has easy access for country walks and tours in the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Dales. Take an afternoon to get refreshed in the world-famous Bettys Café Tea-rooms; established at the time when 1920’s crime novelist Agatha Christie hid-away in Harrogate and the
Charleston shook the knees of dance history.

So join us and follow in the dancing footsteps of Harrogate’s history, dancing all the way from the middle ages to the syncopated age of jazz…

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