Courtly Arts – Performing arts from the European Courts from the 13th to the 17th centuries

The Courtly Arts Performers of Victoria bring alive the music, dance, gesture and theatrical arts from palaces of the medieval, through renaissance to the baroque periods. Enjoy with us the delights of these ages as a performer or as a member of our audience! Or simply explore the joys of the Courtly Arts through our music, photos and videos…

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Within reach of Melbourne? Don't miss our upcoming

Within reach of Melbourne? Don't miss our upcoming concerts!
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Voilà! Cloves and Basil made a lovely couple, as

Voilà! Cloves and Basil made a lovely couple, as it turned out 🤣.

Trying to make sense of part of Alta Mendozza. Our dancers will be more graceful (and certainly lighter on their feet 😂).

You know the choreography is tricky when the herb

You know the choreography is tricky when the herb jars come out! Then half way through, you can’t remember if the basil was the man or the lady 😝😂

Meet the cast of the Courtly Arts Performers of Vi

Meet the cast of the Courtly Arts Performers of Victoria; introducing Saskia.

Introducing one of our Renaissance dancers: Conor!

Introducing one of our Renaissance dancers: Conor!

Let's meet Mollie! #renaissance #medieval #courtl

Let's meet Mollie!

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Meet the Cast: Introducing David R

Meet the Cast: Introducing David R

Meet the Cast - Introducing Rod!

Meet the Cast - Introducing Rod!

Meet the Cast: Jennifer!

Meet the Cast: Jennifer!

Time for us to introduce ourselves!

Time for us to introduce ourselves!

More fun with AI and our performer Kaitlyn. We as

More fun with AI and our performer Kaitlyn.
We asked for a Tudor interior with portraits on the wall. Fortunately, we were able to superimpose the pics of Kaitlyn and Elizabeth I over the ones AI came up with 😂
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Having some fun with AI and one of our performers

Having some fun with AI and one of our performers 😄
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We've been making a catalogue of our costume colle

We've been making a catalogue of our costume collection. Here is Kaitlyn, their outfit embellished by our most recent bling from @armourandcastings 😊

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Festive greeting from the Courtly Arts Performers,

Festive greeting from the Courtly Arts Performers, from a wet Christmas day in Melbourne.
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We love that feeling of stepping back into history

We love that feeling of stepping back into history, so we couldn't go past this wonderful jewellery by @armourandcastings They reproduced the three brooches displayed on the wall in this glorious painting A Goldsmith in His Shop,1449, by Petrus Christus, which we in our turn now proudly display here, worn by three of our dancers 🙂.
We have just received another order from @armourandcastings (based in Ukraine). I may just have to make another costume to go with one of the new brooches!

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We were very blessed to have our founder and patro

And... that's a wrap! Our Echoes of Pilgrimage pro

And... that's a wrap! Our Echoes of Pilgrimage programme ended with our final concert of the year at Trinity Uniting Church Brighton, yesterday (Sunday 3rd Dec 2023). We had some lovely feedback from our Brighton and Warrandyte audiences 🥰
Time now to put away the pilgrim journal and our dancing shoes, and take a well-earned break.
Watch out for more photos and video snippets over the coming days and weeks as we transform into summer mode!

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Our Consort at the Brighton concert. #courtlyarts

Our Consort at the Brighton concert. #courtlyarts #courtlyartsperformers
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Alas! The plague has struck and our Narrator David

Alas! The plague has struck and our Narrator David Ranson has fallen ill. Nevertheless, the show must go on, and so our intrepid dancer Rod Laird will step in in his stead.
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Our Baroque dancers, and our four new dancers who

Our Baroque dancers, and our four new dancers who performed for the first time with us on Sunday 26th Nov.
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