Medieval Dance: Re-discovery, Re-imagination, Recreation Speaker: Charlotte Ewart

Medieval Dance: Re-discovery, Re-imagination, Recreation Speaker: Charlotte Ewart Date: March 17th 2021 What happens when you don’t have any written instructions for dance? What can we use and how reliable is it? Do we have established assumptions or ingrained perceptions that could be challenged? Delving into the challenging Medieval world Charlotte Ewart will explore what we do know, what we think we know and what we could do with that her talk Charlotte will explore what we know; looking at iconography, music and descriptions from primary sources – Manuscript du Roi and Tounoi de Chauvency in particular. She will explore the period pre written choreography – “We may never find conclusive evidence but we shall explore the options we do have to bring Medieval Dance to life.“ Charlotte Ewart Charlotte trained in classical and contemporary dance; she has a BA in History and dance and an MA in Dance; her thesis concerned research and reconstruction of 13th century Estampie. Charlotte is a