Dancing Around 1815

With 1815 as a pivotal year for dance in Europe, this course will explore the lively and sociable ballroom around 1815 with leading experts of dance and music: Anne Daye, Stuart Marsden & Chris Green

Dance Course

Classes will be suitable for dancers who either have some experience of Regency dance or are familiar with dance figures and learning new steps. Course members will have 3 classes a day with either Anne or Stuart.

Anne Daye is a well-established teacher and researcher in historical dance, a visiting lecturer to university dance and music courses, advisor to documentaries on dance topics and has also published on dance from 16 th to 19 th centuries. She appeared in the 2014 BBC TV programme ‘Dancing cheek to cheek’.

Anne will be continuing to explore close connections to Jane Austen with country dances, cotillons and reels from around 1780 to 1815.

Stuart Marsden studied dance at the Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance, then music and movement at Goldsmiths College. He is a qualified ballet teacher (Cecchetti method) and musician and well known in the ballet and historic dance worlds as a teacher, performer, choreographer and musician. Stuart works in TV, film and theatre as a dance master & choreographer including the new BBC flagship production of Poldark.

Stuart will be focusing on dances from the Late Regency period: early quadrilles, waltzing and country dances from 1805 to 1836.

Musicians’ Course

Players of any string or wind instruments are welcome with basic competence in reading and/or playing a 32 bar dance melody. The course will focus on creating an ensemble with less emphasis on coaching individual instrumental skills. If you are in doubt about joining the course, contact the Course Administrator.

Chris Green is a musician, performer and researcher. A former member of Boldwood and the Playford Liberation Front, he is the creative director of historical performance company Blast from the Past and researches English dance music from the 18th century. In 2013, he published The Musick Meeting a collection of hitherto unpublished 18th-century dance tunes from the British Library.

Chris believes very strongly that this music is just as valid for performance purposes as dance purposes, so the workshop will include arranging tunes for performance as well as playing for dance.

What will the day’s programme typically contain?

After morning and early afternoon classes with your tutor, the afternoon options timetable will offer a choice of dance and music workshops with the course tutors and guests Isabel Suri and Libby Curzon.

Isabel Suri joins us from Switzerland and is a popular teacher of historical dance, including complex European country dances and quadrilles.

Libby Curzon, teacher and leader of Mrs Bennet's Ballroom, runs a series of popular Regency dance classes and tea dances in Surbiton, SW London, encouraging new people to try historical dance and enjoy the pleasure of dance.

The evenings will offer enjoyable social interaction, including dance and music of the present and the past. There will be a Ball at Chichester Assembly Rooms on Wednesday 29 th July which is free to participants on the full or midweek course.

Where is the Summer School being held?

Chichester University, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester, PO19 6PE

Bishop Otter campus - provides several spacious dance studios, quality accommodation and good food. Bishop Otter Campus is approximately 16 miles east of Portsmouth, 35 miles west of Brighton and about 60 miles south of London. See the university web site for more information.

How much will it cost me?

This year you can choose how you attend the Summer School to fit your budget. You can:

1. choose fully residential: (accommodation, all meals, refreshments, tuition); or
2. attend only for the tuition and evening events (together with lunch and dinner, refreshments); or
3. attend only for the tuition and evening events.

according to the following options

Attendance option A – Full course (24 July - 1 August: departure after breakfast)

Residential options

1. Fully residential: ensuite £870 members, £910 non-members; not ensuite £795 members, £835 non-members
2. Tuition, lunch and dinner: £555 members/£595 non-members
3. Tuition only: £145 members/£160 non-members

Attendance option B – Midweek course (27 July – 1 August: departure after breakfast)

Residential options

1. Fully residential: ensuite £615 members, £645 non-members; not ensuite £565, members £595 non-members
2. Tuition, lunch and dinner: £390 members/£420 non-members
3. Tuition only: £115 members/£135 non-members

Attendance option C – Weekend course (24 – 27 July departure: after breakfast)

Residential options

1. Fully residential: ensuite £385, members £400 non-members; not ensuite £360, members £375 non-members £380
2. Tuition, lunch and dinner: £295 members/£310 non-members
3. Tuition only: £55 members/£65 non-members

You are welcome to contact the Summer School Administrator to discuss other alternative arrangements, if none of the above meets your needs.

Please download the brochure (pdf) to see all the options available.

Bursaries

The Society offers bursaries for appropriate candidates in memory of Nathalie Dolmetsch and Jim Cartmell. Further details

Booking and further information

BOOKING PERIOD EXTENDED
If you want to attend this years Summer School there is still time, but booking will close soon.

To book a place, please download the booking form (pdf).

For further information contact

DHDS Summer School Administrator, 101 Broadmark Lane, Rustington, West Sussex BN16 2JN.
Telephone: +44 (0)7872 007696
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