20th October 2015
Dance : Manners, Morals and Class.
A Social History of Dancing from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era
A Social History of Dancing from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era
Jeremy Barlow
'Do not spit or blow your nose too much' advises a 16th century dance treatise.
From the mid-15th century onwards, descriptions of dances, their music, and expected behaviour and etiquette show the great importance of dance in people's lives. Jeremy’s lecture continues through the baroque era to the emergence of the waltz, which swept all the old court dances away; though not without moral censure of the lax behaviour it was supposed to have engendered.
After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy worked mainly in the theatre as a musical director, flautist and composer, and at the BBC as a radio producer and broadcaster. His book ‘A Dance Through Time: Images of Western Social Dancing from the Middle Ages to Modern Times’, has just been published.
From the mid-15th century onwards, descriptions of dances, their music, and expected behaviour and etiquette show the great importance of dance in people's lives. Jeremy’s lecture continues through the baroque era to the emergence of the waltz, which swept all the old court dances away; though not without moral censure of the lax behaviour it was supposed to have engendered.
After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy worked mainly in the theatre as a musical director, flautist and composer, and at the BBC as a radio producer and broadcaster. His book ‘A Dance Through Time: Images of Western Social Dancing from the Middle Ages to Modern Times’, has just been published.
The Society meets at the Hull Royal Hotel, 170 Ferensway, Hull HU1 3UF
All lectures are presented in the Royal Suite and start at 7.30pm prompt.
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