THE York Early Music Foundation is organising a series of early dance workshops in York primary schools next week.
Taking the ruff with the smooth, pupils will be learning how to dance in some of history's most complicated costumes: large Elizabethan ruffs for the girls and doublet and hose for the boys.
The workshops will teach such dances as a pavan, a galliard and a washerwoman's brawl and will feature members of the Carnival Band - alias Henry VIII's Rock'n'Roll Band - working alongside Bradford dancer Nicole Strachan.
Taking place in Park Grove, Tang Hall, Oaken Grove and St Paul's primary schools next Tuesday to Thursday, the workshops are being supported by the City of York Council's education department, the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust and the York Millennium Mystery Plays.
The Dean of York, the Very Reverend Raymond Furnell, the Millennium production's chairman, said: "We're delighted to be supporting these workshops which signal the first in a major educational programme to be supported by the York Millennium Mystery Plays.
"Dance has traditionally been an essential part of the way in which the Church celebrates its great occasions and the annual feat of Corpus Christi, when the York Mystery Plays historically took place, would be no exception."
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