Alick-Maud Pledge

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

Alick-Maud Pledge
Born1893
London
Died1949
Paris

Early life

Alick-Maud Pledge (sometimes written as Maud Alick Pledge) was born in London.[1]

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, a folk dance, in France.[2] She influenced Marcelle Albert, Marinette Aristow-Journoud and Jean-Michel Guilcher who carried on with teaching folk dances in France.

The tombstone at the grave of Alick-Maud Pledge, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Other names on the stone are Eugène Marcault, Marie Marcault Debrot, Yvette Couturier, and Léo Debrot.)
The tombstone at the grave of Alick-Maud Pledge, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Other names on the stone are Eugène Marcault, Marie Marcault Debrot, Yvette Couturier, and Léo Debrot.)

Personal life

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

References
  1. Gasnault, François (21 April 2017), Besse, Laurent; Christen, Carole (eds.), "Miss Pledge ou les danses populaires à la rescousse de l'éducation nouvelle (1926-1949): les réseaux d'une Anglaise de Paris", Histoire de l’éducation populaire, 1815-1945, Histoire et civilisations (in French), Presses universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 397–408, ISBN 978-2-7574-1769-0, retrieved 4 March 2020
  2. "Fiches de danse folk : Chapelloise (Aleman's marsj) - Cancoillottefolk". 22 August 2012. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

Articles
  • « Mouvement, gymnastique et équilibre 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.


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