I love the elegance, the music is beautiful.

J'aime infiniment cette musique du passé. fort bonne interprétation, bravo pour les costumes des deux sexes Merci à vous merci à KZread qui ouvre la porte à de nombreux talentueux artistes comme vous.

Definitely my favourite from amomg the Playford dances.

So graceful and elegant!

I love the expressions of the ladies, they seem to enjoy the dance very much indeed. ....just love this video.

Magnifique et heureuse époque de courtoisie, élégance, romantisme, délicatesse - dans certains milieux aisés, on se comprend. Les milieux aisés de notre époque contemporaine n'ont plus cette classe ni ce respect.

Sou apaixonado pela dança e música dessa época.

I fear I would be laughing each time I had to duck underneath someone's arm because I am RIDICULOUSLY short. *lol* I just find that way too funny!

In our Playford group we rise and fall on the feet more but dance like this. The costume does help to perform better. I enjoy performing in costume.

Very nice ,from a limey across the pond !

The very first dance in the very first edition of John Playford's 'The English Dancing Master' of 1651! How pleasant to see it danced with Baroque steps. I dance with a group that avoids the side couples having to shuffle up as the top couple goes under the arches by moving the whole set up diagonally on the double forward and back - not in the original instructions, but it works well!

@inregionecaecorum

2 жыл бұрын

Basically the same tune as "the lark in the morning" I used to play a lot of Irish Music, my mum did not have a musical ear and said it all the sounded the same like "The cat's got the measles" maybe she was right.

@lenkachalabalova297

8 ай бұрын

Please what is the name of this dance? Thank you

@malcolmmcdonald9991

8 ай бұрын

@@lenkachalabalova297The name of the dance is “Upon a summer’s day “. It was the first dance in ‘The English Dancing Master’ by John Playford published in 1651.

@malcolmmcdonald9991

8 ай бұрын

@@lenkachalabalova297The name of the dance is “Upon a summer’s day “. It was the first dance in ‘The English Dancing Master’ by John Playford published in 1651.

The music is almost Medieval

This dance is kinda mesmerising!

Some early music songs survived into the 18th and 19th centuries in the form of "folk" or "peasant" dances. The people in the video look like 18th century upper class types, who would have been up on the "latest tunes", but even THEY at times "played" at being rustics.

Very very nice see and hear your dears in open your sincere historical -ethno-distance in fantastish -light dancing!!!! Very big Danke Schon!!!

Me gusta muchoooo

Oh, what a wonderful performance!

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@childgrove One of my favourite Playfords - both the music and the dance. It's unexpectedly dark for a 'summer' dance but I like it all the more for it. In my dance group we do it very similarly to the above; I think that 'country dance' can misleadingly produce expectations of a rough and ready style of dance?

Absolutely beautiful

Sehr schoen. Danke

@tashilhamo9807

Жыл бұрын

Very beautiful 🌺🌺🌺👏

Entzückend ❤

Lovely! Well done!

beautifully done, my congrats

PORTRAIT OF YOUTH REMASTERED (c)2006

Love English country dances! Very fine!

Too true! especially about the men's fashion bit

I'm far from being a prude, but my God, we humans DO look better with clothes on!

@spurnthemuse

7 жыл бұрын

Most animaux are born with clothin.

@charliegabs

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad nobody uses it

@AlphabetCookie

3 жыл бұрын

So true.

@antoniofarinaccio541

3 жыл бұрын

My god! they look like dancing drapes.

@johnbunyan5834

Жыл бұрын

We certainly do. Attractive clothes lead to thoughts of unseen delights, that might be ahead. If all our wobbly bits were on display, what a sight that would be.

Fico feliz em saber que já fomos civilizados.

nice! very nice! 😀

музыка красивая

The music and dance renaissance. The costumes are rokoko.

@thomaskurth8335

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, thats very funny. A "problem" of many historical dance groups in Germany, many of them dancing often only the duple minors from the Playford-editions. When Rococo started as a style, the Playford dances were out of fashion.

Minden nap megnézem 1x

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excellent moisterrrrrrrrr

Are you German? Your videos are great, I love historical dances, classical music, vintage and nostalgia!

@thomaskurth8335

3 жыл бұрын

But "Upon a summers day" is not a "Rococo-Dance". In the time after the 1720s, the Playford-Dances were mostly forgotten---for 200 years. In the 20th century these dance were rediscovered by Cecil Sharp.

hey could someone PLEASE tell me what song is? I would be very grateful

@seangallagher1465

5 жыл бұрын

Well...it's the name of the video, 'Upon a Summer's Day.'

Please what is the name of this dance? Thank you

title of the song pls

@Notintimidated2013

5 жыл бұрын

Upon A Summer's Day

A few million years from swinging-on-a-branch to this, and a couple of hundreds of years for 'dance' to mean any jerky, obscene, aggressive movement you make in panties and bras while swearing ryhtmically (which passes for music). Life is weird. Still, it's a good thing men's fashion has changed.

Came here because of Northanger Abbey

Compare this to "Harlem Shake" or "Gangnam Style"... Our culture made a sad step backwards. :'(

Umwerfend

buckled shoes ...un - polished!

@POLMAZURKA

3 жыл бұрын

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