Dance and music with Renaissance Footnotes
Dance and music with Renaissance Footnotes
01 189 474 891
01 189 474 891
Events are performed under our stage name - Renaissance Footnotes.
We gave our first public performance in 1992 and since then have performed on our own, and in association with other groups at the Albert Hall, Hampton Court Palace, the Great Hall Winchester, the Commandery Worcester, the Painted Hall Greenwich, the Weald and Downland Museum of Buildings, Dinan (Brittany), Tourcoing (Alsace), Arreton Manor (IOW), and a number of English Heritage, National Trust and CADW sites across the country
We perform in good quality reproduction period clothes and footwear, either all of a single period, or showing a variety of styles illustrating the changing fashions between 1450 and 1650. We are able to supply our own musicians for a performance if required, who use reproduction period instruments, and who also have period costume. In addition to the performance dances, we know a number of simple audience participation dances which we are able to teach.
The members of the group have between them a wealth of experience in historical interpretation, both in events for schools, and in events open to the general public. So in addition to performing the dances we are able to discuss the social background to the dances, the basis of their reconstruction, our clothes etc., with the audiences.
We also have extensive contacts, and would be happy to assist in the staging of domestic living history events. The exact roles that we can cover depends on who is available, the group includes people able to cover the following roles: Household steward, cook, laundry woman, seamstress, lace maker, huntsman, gentleman, secretary, gentry lady, musician, still room woman, astrologer, physician and dancing master. Many of the group have been trained in historical interpretation for work at Hampton Court and almost everyone in the group has participated in the annual Kentwell tudor recreation.
Additonal information
29 mai, Eltham
The theme of this event is courtly entertainments and pastimes at Eltham in the time of Henry VIII.
23 july, Tretower Court
This is a mixture of living history and dance performances set around the turn of the C17th.
9 august, Arreton
This is a living history event set in the year 1628 - the year King Charles I visited the island and reviewed his troops on Arreton Down.
20 august, Kirby Hall
The theme of this events is the visit of Anne of Denmark and her role as a patron of the arts and specifically the Masque (a sort of Jacobean musical spectacular).
