We mark the festive season with a courtly celebration of dance and music spanning four centuries, performed in sumptuous Renaissance and Baroque costume and led by our masters of ceremony Roderick Laird and David Ranson. Live music will be performed…
The Courtly Arts Performers of Victoria bring you A Room in Europe: chamber Music and Dance from the Baroque Age. In the stately homes of Europe, friends would gather to present and enjoy musical offerings in a relaxed and intimate…
The Courtly Arts Performers of Victoria bring you A Room in Europe: chamber Music and Dance from the Baroque Age. In the stately homes of Europe, friends would gather to present and enjoy musical offerings in a relaxed and intimate…
Please gather your friends and come along for a trip through the Royal Courts of Renaissance Europe, guided by our narrator Rod Laird, as he echoes the writings of the original European Courtier Baldassare Castiglione. Our dancers and musicians, all…
We’re ready! One full rehearsal to go, then it will just be a question of packing our costumes and instruments, and off we go to Trinity, Brighton! To our faithful Brighton audience – please note that the concert is on…
We have been fascinated to learn about Baldassare Castiglione, the courtier on whom our programme 'The European Courtier' is based, and hope to manifest some of the attributes he recommends in a courtier: "To dance well without over nimble footings…
For there is none of you so mean and base, that hath not noble luster in your eyes.I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game’s afoot. William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 3, Scene…
The Virtues of DanceIn every dance, of a most ancient custom, there danceth together a man and a woman, holding each other by the hand or the arm, which betokeneth concord. Now it behoveth the dancers and also the beholders…
Rise and shine this beautiful morning, An Elizabethan dancing day is dawning; Whilst you lay upon your mattress, Our performers they do practice; For a pittance from your purse, We'll entertain with song and verse And with dance and music…
Pavane? Galliard? Almaine? What are these curious dance forms? Would you or a friend like to know more? Discover the art of dance in the courts of the Renaissance. Our four-week introductory sessions are being held in June, during the…