Folk dance display
Visitors to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens and the Robert McDougall Art Gallery on Sunday afternoon will be able to take in a little folklore along with the art and the flowers. The Farandol Folk Dancers, a dance-demon-stration group based in Christchurch, will present a programme of folk dances from Britain and Eastern Europe on the asphalt area outside the gallery, starting at 2.30 p.m. About 10 Rumanian dances, which are lively and noted for fast, confusing footwork, will be performed, with an "English Suite,” a
compendium of dances known to go back at least to the seventeenth century. If Sunday is wet, the dances, which will be sponsored by the gallery under its "Outreach” programme, will be postponed for a week. Another “special” at the gallery this week-end will be a slide lecture, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, on tapestry through the ages. This will be presented by the Christchurch weaver, Ida Lough, and will trace the history of weaving from the Middle Ages. It is intended as groundwork for the exhibition, to open on December 12, of Henry Moore tapestries made at West Dean House. Sussex.
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Press, 4 December 1981, Page 4
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