DHDS

John Playford and
The English Dancing Master 1651

Conference Programme

Saturday-Sunday, 24-25 March 2001

Saturday 24th March 2001

10.00 

Opening remarks

Session I: Playford's English Dancing Master and its antecedents

10.15 Jennifer Kiek "That againe"
10.45 Anne Daye Taking the measure of dance steps 1650-1700, through the dance publications of John Playford
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Jeremy Barlow Tunes in The English Dancing Master (1651) - John Playford's accidental misprints?
12.15 Robert M Keller The English Dancing Master, 1651-1728 - an illustrated compendium
12.45 Lunch  
     

Session 2: English Country Dance in the 17th-19th centuries

13.45 Diana Cruickshank Circling the square - the country dances of Thomas Bray
14.15 Ann Kent Country dancing in the French style 1700-1730
14.45 Choice of two workshops
A Julia Sutton: Lorin and Playford
B Michael Barraclough: Newcastle United
15.45 Tea
16.15 Annie Richardson Trivial pursuits? - the representation of country dance in 18th-century drama
16.45 Ellis Rogers Long division and the circle squared
17.15 Break for dinner
     
19.30

Ball [Programme]

23.30

Close

     

Sunday 25th March 2001

Session 3: English Country Dance on the Continent

09.30 Peter Bohlin Country dances from a Swedish perspective (1780 - c 1810)
10.00 Birte Hoffmann-Cabenda English Country Dances in northern Germany around 1800
10.30 Hannelore Unfried Descendants of The English Dancing Master in Austria
11.00 Coffee
     

Session 4: Playford revived and Playford renewed

11.30 Derek Schofield "Little ballets" - Playford, Sharp and Douglas Kennedy in the 20th-century folk dance revival
12.00 Gene Murrow Playford in America, 3rd figure
12.30 Colin Hume Playford interpretation today
13.00 Lunch
     

Session 5: The Playford tradition

14.00 Choice of two workshops
A Nic Broadbridge: Playing music for country dances of the 17th and 18th centuries
B Jørgen Schou-Pedersen: Dubreil's Contredanses (Darmstadt, 1718)
15.00 Tea
15.30 Hazel Dennison Jigg saw puzzle
16.00 Diana Jewitt Gym knickers and street cred!
16.30 Closing remarks
16.35 Tea
     
16.50

Dance

19.00

Close

Conference: John Playford and The English Dancing Master 1651