Early Dance Circle Festival 2022 in Tring

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Norwich Historical Dance enjoyed their first ‘live’ Early Dance Circle Festival since 2019 in the Victoria Hall in Tring, Hertfordshire, over the weekend of October 21st -23rd, 2022. Entitled “Come yew in…”, their presentation celebrated Norwich’s status as a City of Sanctuary and the many and varied refugees who have made their home here.

Starting with Pavane de la Guerre, a symbolic battle dance, they moved on to Branle de la Torche using knitted canaries to illustrate the arrival of the refugees who brought their weaving skills and canaries to the county.

EDC Festival 2022
Branle de la Torche, Canaries fashion…celebrates the refugees who brought their cloth weaving skills and their canaries with them and gave Norwich its nickname.

 

Early Dance Circle Festival 2022 in Tring
Montarde Branle, buying time for the quick change artists
Early Dance Circle Festival 2022 in Tring
Circling in Le Tourbillion celebrates another arrival of refugees in the 18th century.

 

The 1940’s saw more refugees plus the US armed Forces  with a new culture and music

Early Dance Circle Festival 2022 in Tring
Some 1940’s Jive, a time of more refugees as well as the US armed forces arriving in Norfolk.

 

More recently, wars in Eastern Europe as well as other parts of the world have brought more refugees seeking peace in Norfolk. NHD finished the set with Davorike Dajke which originated in what was Yugoslavia.

Early Dance Circle Festival 2022 in Tring
The 20th century brought refugees from Eastern Europe and this is recognised in the dance ‘Davorike Dajke’

 

The next EDC Festival will be the 40th and will take place over the weekend of October 20th -22nd 2023 in Hereford Town Hall.

More photos of NHD dancers from festival can be seen here:  Early-Dance-Circle-Festival

 

 

 

 

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