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How did our forefathers have fun? Choregraphie Antique,
the dance history ensemble of Goucher college makes history come
alive by performing ballroom dances of the eighteenth, nineteenth,
and early twentieth century. Dancers dressed in beautiful costumes perform vintage dances recapturing the elegance of courtly french menuets, bourrees, allemands, and lively english country dances of that americans love to dance in eighteenth century america. Elegant and refined quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, country dances, gallopades to lilting melodies of the nineteenth century are contrasted to revolutionary racy dances of the one-step, argentine tango, brazilian maxixe, grizzly bear, turkey trot, kangaroo hop, lame duck, duck waddle, and the crab to ragtime tunes of 1890-1914 era. Take a nostalgic trip back to a world war II USO club where soldiers and sailors dance foxtrots, paul jones, rumbas, polkas, congos and jitterbugs with young junior hostesses. All of these vintage dances have been researched and reconstructed from dancing manuals and music by Chrystelle Trump Bond, founding chair of the dance department and professor of dance at Goucher College. Recently Choregraphie
Antique has performed at
Choregraphie Antique, in collaboration with Musica Antiqua, an award-winning period music chamber group, received a Maryland Humanities Council grant for a project entitled: "Delightful Diversions: A History of Dance and Music in Early Maryland." Currently, Choregraphie Antique is performing in collaboration with the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble and the Towson University Early Music Ensemble. For more information, contact Chrystelle
Trump Bond
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