Archive - Pre 2009 Performance Information
Samuel Pepys Learns To Dance, Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, December 2008
A pantomime intermezzo.
The Dancing Master, October 2008
Performing with the Broadside Band at the Inner Temple Hall, as part of the year long festival celebrating the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Temple, Nonsuch presented an evening of 17th century music and dance, celebrating the work of John Playford, who produced the first English dancing manual, The Dancing Master in 1651.
Hampton Hill Residency, October 2008
Starting the process of working with Hampton Hill school children to teach them Tudor dancing & social history, culminating in a children’s performance in January 2009.
Performing in the historic Guildhall in Bury St. Edmunds, in association with the Theatre Royal's Georgian Gems Festival, Nonsuch led a day long community workshop of "Dancing with Jane Austen", teaching and performing the dances from the Georgian period.
Summer Course, Carmona Theatre, Seville, Spain, August 2008
Performances in the theatre and on the medieval ramparts of Carmona, as part of the Nonsuch International Summer Course.
Royal Shakespeare Company Open Day, Courtyard Theatre, August 2008
Working with actors from the RSC, Nonsuch led a day of "Strictly Come Elizabethan Dancing", for the RSC open day in Stratford on Avon, resulting in a performance and a “dance off” in front of a panel of judges that included Michael Boyd, RSC artistic director. Read the article in Dance Today by clicking here
Georgian Gems Workshop, September 2008
Performing in the historic Guildhall in Bury St Edmunds, in association with the Theatre Royal's Georgian Gems Festival, Nonsuch led a day long community workshop of DANCING WITH JANE AUSTEN, teaching and performing the dances from the Georgian period.
Love's Proper Exercise 14th February 2008 - St John's Smith Square, Smith Square, LONDON
The music of Henry Purcell, John Dowland and other seventeenth century composers accompanied the dancers and actors of the Nonsuch History and Dance Company in a Valentine's re-creation of dances and costumes from the courts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. 'Love's Proper Exercise' featured a selection of the music and poetry of sixteenth and seventeenth century England played on period instruments, and sung by Stefan Paul Sanchez (baritone) and Sandra Porter (soprano). The magnificent church of St. John's Smith Square played host to a perfect Valentine's date.