Elizabethan Games And Past Times
A Dance - The Horses Branle
Rufford Park (2004)
Ruth is our main leader of dances. Here she is teaching the public the steps of a period dance in which you imitate a horse.
Many of the dances are imitations of normal things in period life; horses; washerwomen and hermits are a few.
We use dances from surviving manuscripts and also interpret some from surviving paintings; one being The Egg Dance in which it looks like the dances interpret chickens laying eggs.Photographer: Susanne Atkin
