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The Egg Dance – from tavern to tavern
A kissing couple, a monk fondling a tankard, a musician playing a vedel, a woman with a pot on her head, a kermesse and church procession all form the decor for Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s portrayal of an egg dancer. The Egg Dancer, from around 1620, shows, contrary to many other images of an egg… Read more
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The Egg Dance – from moralistic to decorative
At approximately the same time as Pieter Aertsen painted The Egg Dance, the prolific Flemish artist Maerten de Vos (also written as Maarten or Marten) designed his own version of the egg dance. The drawing Egg dance outside a tavern is located in the Harvard Art Museum. This artwork, drawn in brown ink on cream… Read more
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The Egg Dance – the skilful dancer
The origin of the Egg Dance goes back a long way. As early as 1498 an egg dance, more an egg dance competition, took place at the marriage festivities of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy. Apparently, after various couples had attempted the dance, breaking eggs in the process, the Duke of Savoy himself… Read more
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Circles, circles and more circles
In my previous post, I looked at images of the basse-danse in medieval manuscripts created during the Burgundian era. This post looks at some of the many images of circle dances illustrating secular manuscripts of the Low Countries during the same period. Circle dances have existed since the dawn of civilization; men and women, boys… Read more
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Dance at Court – The Basse-Danse
The court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy is legendary. Not only were the palatial banquets, the stunning tournaments and the great pageants magnificent, but Philip the Good (1396-1467) was also a great patron of art and culture. Under his patronage the arts, including the art of the illuminated manuscript, thrived. The Duke was… Read more
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Chronicles – Le Bal des Ardents (2)
28th of January 1393. Charles VI and five courtiers prepared themselves to perform a bizarre dance, at a feast held in honour of the wedding for one of the queen’s ladies-in-waiting. They appeared, in a then popular disguise, as wild men dressed from head to foot in garments, according to the chronicler Jean Froissart, ‘made… Read more
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About me
As a young aspiring dancer I loved to ponder over the magnificent paintings created by Edgar Degas. How his ballerinas inspired me. The atmosphere of the Paris Opera, the beautiful tutus and the hard working dancers never failed to trigger my imagination. As the years past, I retained my love of dance, of Degas, of art, and developed an interest in knowing more about the cross fertilization between art and dance.
DANCE IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE NETHERLANDS 