‘Carol’ once implied dance as much as song and to bring the two back together Dr John Gardiner-Garden has devised 71 social participatory dances in dozens of different formations to fit well-loved Christmas carols from the last 7 centuries. The dances all work perfectly, are lots of fun, and, in their style and figures, echo the various carols’ historical origins and lyrical storyline. The book contains easy-to-follow instructions to all the dance, full carol lyrics, chorded musical notation, historical notes and wonderful illustrations. Sing while you dance and dance while you sing! 100 A4 pages.

Author Biography

For more than 30 years Dr John Gardiner-Garden has studied, researched, performed, taught, played for and led more than 500 years of dance styles. He is an internationally recognised authority on historical dance, is the founding director of the Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy and has many times toured in North America, Europe and Australia. He has taught thousands of historical dance classes, choreographed and directed hundreds of displays and shows, led hundreds of balls and at dozens of conferences and festivals. He has researched, written and published dozens of books on historical dance, including 31 books in the Dancing through the Ages series (released in 2020 after 20 years labour). He is also an award-winning composer of hundreds of dances (some now danced worldwide) and hundreds of tunes (4 used in a film). His original dance collections include The Lost Dances of Earthly Delights, Vol. 1: Pleasures for Four Seasons, and Vol. 2: Favourites for Four Settings (first published in 2000 and 2005 respectively), Dance Delights. A collection of diverse inventions, 2020 and The Christmas Carol Dance Book, (2002, 2nd edition 2020). The Lost Dances are set to his own musical compositions and accompanied by 8 full-length full-band CDs. The Dance Delights are mostly set to the music of Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic-era composers. www.earthlydelights.com.au

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