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Advent 2023: Eleven Ladies Dancing
For their second Advent 2023 mini-episode, Eleanor and Martin shake it on down with Eleven Ladies Dancing!
We start by chatting about the earliest records we have of dancing, including in prehistoric cave art and Bronze Age sculpture, then skip ahead to early folk and 'circle' dances like the branle and the farandole.
After discussing the birth of ballet, care of Catherine De Medici, it's then onto a whirling discussion of storytelling dances like the ballo, as featured in some early opera, and courtly 'processional' dances as favoured by the likes of Elizabeth I, such as the galliard and the…
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