Early Music Vancouver presents Doulce Mémoire: Now, Let Us Dance!
The Art of Dance in the Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries
Highly stylised, formal and solemn: this is how we generally imagine early dances. But this concert dansé, featuring the wonderful dancer and choreographer Hubert Hazebroucq, will show you what dances were really like in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries! Omnipresent at court festivities, they were elegant, refined and aristocratic, becoming spectacular, virtuosic, theatrical, and allegorical when performed in the sumptuous intermèdes of princely celebrations.
The dances will be accompanied by a wind band, the “piffari”, with instrumentalists who can switch with ease from hauts (“loud”) instruments, such as shawms and oboes, to bas (“soft”) instruments, including flutes and bassoons.
Artists: Hubert Hazebroucq, dance; Ensemble Doulce Mémoire directed by Denis Raisin Dadre
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