Traditional French Dance

Les Belles Vilaines: Les Belles Vilaines is a doing selection of four performers enthusiastic about French and European songs and dance. Its developing arsenal includes old-fashioned and historical dances from the European Medieval/Renaissance eras and dances from the 19th Century

The Quadrille Club: The Quadrille Club is a team of six partners. We meet weekly to explore French and English dances through the 18th and nineteenth Century Europe. Our repertoire includes cotillons, contredanses and quadrilles.

Community courses: every second Sunday of every month, Kate works a morning party workshop in which individuals can discover European dances from various cycles many French conventional dances.

Community events: every so often we suggest community occasions such as the nineteenth Century picnic, the Jane Austen Ball or the Midwinter large beverage.

Kate Grace (party frontrunner): in terms of many French locals, Kate’s lineage is certainly not a straightforward one. Kate takes the woman roots from a mother born in Morocco and a father from mountainous elements of the East of France. She grew up in France with dance behind the scenes, the woman mama taking a specific interest in Israeli and Greek party during the time. Possibly considering household interest, perhaps off energy to burn, or just possibly as it was trendy at the time, she had been drawn to the research of conventional party from Africa.
She flew to New Zealand in 1995 hoping to settle inside Portugal of Southern Seas, as Dunedin had been explained to the woman by kiwi spouse David. dealing with instead the Antarctic wind and Dunedin sound, she ended up being torn involving the alternatives of permitting go of the woman passion or taking the bull by the horns: she tossed by herself in to the task of becoming an instructor of African dance. She taught African folk dance for 13 years in a lively and energetic fashion supported by the intricate rhythms of David’s stay Songbong drummers.
In 2005, David and Kate took their three young ones for a three-year stay in France. Here, she reconnected with dancers and performers enthusiastic about conventional types of dance from France and European countries. Back New Zealand and adapting to the woman 50 year old human body, she now teaches traditional and historic dances from European countries in Dunedin.
Kate is mixed up in Songbong business half of the full time and spends others one half researching, rehearsing, doing dance and songs and making historic clothes. She leads continual friendly battles with her garden and may are a colourful artistic musician.
She hopes the seeds of conventional and historic dance she actually is now sowing in Dunedin will grow into a good area of the regional landscape.