One dancer and one musician will come to the school for the day and give a performance of Tudor dancing and music
for about 45 minutes. This is followed by
up to five
interactive dance workshops (45 min each)
for the pupils
studying the Tudors and other classes that
will
benefit from the experience
(approximately 30 pupils per dance workshop).
For small schools a one person programme is available.
The performance is suitable for the whole school and includes talks on costume, music and dance. They will see the popular and exciting Tudor court dances accompanied by replica Tudor musical instruments and some will try on replica clothes.
In the music talk, they will also hear a wide variety of reproduction
Tudor instruments such as the
rebec, viol, several recorders, shawms, curtal, crumhorn, cittern, harp,
pipe and tabor, nakers, sackbutt and bagpipes
and they will find out about their use in Tudor life.
The performers wear replica costumes to show how the costumes affect their movement
and status in Tudor society.
In the dance workshops, the pupils will learn suitable Tudor dances and manners of
the age. They will find out how
dance influenced all levels of society and have an opportunity to see the instruments and costumes close at hand.
There are teacher's notes of the steps, dances and music for this
part of the programme. |
