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Alick-Maud Pledge (1893–1949) was an English folk dance and gymnastics teacher in France.


Early life

Alick-Maud Pledge (sometimes written as Maud Alick Pledge) was born in
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.


Career in France

Pledge moved to France in 1926 following the call of Jaques-Dalcroze, but became soon independent. In the New Education movement, she created the French associations ''Education and Movement'' and ''Friends of the Popular Dance''. She popularized the
Chapelloise The Chapelloise or Belgijka is a traditional folk dance with change of partners (a so-called Mixer dance, mixer), belonging to the standard repertoire of a Balfolk, Bal Folk. Its most common name in France and the French-influenced European Balfol ...
, a folk dance, in France. She influenced Marcelle Albert, Marinette Aristow-Journoud and Jean-Michel Guilcher who carried on with teaching folk dances in France.


Personal life

Pledge died in 1949, in her mid-fifties. Her gravesite is in
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in Paris.


References


Articles

* « Mouvement, gymnastique et Ă©quilibre nerveux », in ''La Nouvelle Éducation'', 1932, 3 articles pp. 9, 18 et 39. * « La danse populaire »'', in ''La Nouvelle Éducation, 1935.


Publications

* Jean-Philippe Saint-Martin. Les origines oubliées de la Gymnastique Volontaire entre les deux guerres mondiales. In ''SPORT ET GENRE (VOLUME 3) Apprentissage du genre et institutions éducatives''. Lharmattan, 2006, 55–69.


External links


''Miss Pledge (1893-1949)''
by Yves Guilcher
Education et mouvement
English educational theorists English emigrants to France 1893 births 1949 deaths {{England-bio-stub