Society dances between the 18th and 19th centuries. Open lesson and dance The beauty and elegance of social dances and dance parties in Elisa Baciocchi's period in Lucca.
The Società di Danza Lucca and the Società di Danza Circolo Pisano invite you to an afternoon of dance, organized in two parts. In the first part an open lesson on simple social dances from the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, in the second part a ball with dancers in period costumes to relive the atmosphere, elegance and style like in Lucca at the time of Elisa Baciocchi.
Minuet, contradance, valse, cotillons, country dance, ecossaise, quadrille … Romantic dances at the time of Elisa Baciocchi, at the time of Jane Austen and beyond, performed to music of the period and reconstructed from the dance manuals of the time.
Social dance forms spread between the end of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. History, evolution and practice of social dance by the best dance masters in Europe. Regency or early empire dance, Italian and European dances. The event takes place in collaboration between the two clubs of the Società di Danza of Lucca and Pisa, and is included in the Lucca Historiae Fest event. At the end of the cycle of historical dance seminars between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century which was held in Pisa in the period October-May. The Società di Danza, founded in 1992 and of which the clubs of Lucca and Pisa are part, is a national federation of associations, which share an idea and a dance system based on historical dance and in particular nineteenth-century dance, which combines artistic values and social. Dance Society
