If you want to dance, someone has to play
Alert Janeite Lisa sent us an article in the Liverpool Daily Post about the Pemberley Players, a group of musicians who play period music at various events in the U.K. occasionally other countries.
The dances Austen and her characters performed, at the balls that spiced up the monotony of middle-class country life, were refined versions of the dancing practiced at village festivals for centuries.
OVER the years they became, in refined society, what the young people performed when the royalty and older people had left the room – there was more movement and raciness than in the stilted Elizabethan minuets.
The Pemberley Players will be performing at the Pride and Prejudice Ball at St. George’s Hall in Liverpool on March 8, 2008.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:23 am
The Pemberley Players have made several CDs of dance-length tunes of English country dances & their arrangements and playing is beautiful. Speaking as a musician and dancer myself, I heartily endorse their work.