This video celebrates the life and dances of Ignatius Sancho. Born a slave, Sancho went on to produce several collections of ballroom dances in the 1760s and 1770s. This video includes reconstructions of some of Sancho’s dances by the Hampshire Regency Dancers and the Quadrille Club, together with arrangements of Sancho’s music by Green Ginger. The dances are discussed with: Meryl Thomson of Green Ginger who recently recorded the CD “Dances for a Princess”; Paul Cooper, a specialist in Regency dance and Sally Petchey, author of a recent book about the life and dances of Ignatius Sancho: “Dances for a Princess”. Early Dance Circle publications (including “Dances for a Princess”) are available from: https://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/publications/aids-to-study/ Green Ginger's album “Dances for a Princess” is available via BandCamp: https://greenginger.bandcamp.com/album/ignatius-sancho-cotillions-etc Quadrille Club: https://quadrilles.co.uk/quadrille-club/ Hampshire Regency Dancers: http://www.hrd.org.uk/ Green Ginger: https://greengingerband.co.uk/

This video celebrates the life and dances of Ignatius Sancho. Born a slave, Sancho went on to produce several collections of ballroom dances in the 1760s and 1770s. This video includes reconstructions of some of Sancho’s dances by the Hampshire Regency Dancers and the Quadrille Club, together with arrangements of Sancho’s music by Green Ginger. The dances are discussed with: Meryl Thomson of Green Ginger who recently recorded the CD “Dances for a Princess”; Paul Cooper, a specialist in Regency dance and Sally Petchey, author of a recent book about the life and dances of Ignatius Sancho: “Dances for a Princess”. Early Dance Circle publications (including “Dances for a Princess”) are available from: https://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/publications/aids-to-study/ Green Ginger's album “Dances for a Princess” is available via BandCamp: https://greenginger.bandcamp.com/album/ignatius-sancho-cotillions-etc Quadrille Club: https://quadrilles.co.uk/quadrille-club/ Hampshire Regency Dancers: http://www.hrd.org.uk/ Green Ginger: https://greengingerband.co.uk/

Last year, Rep. Bruce Antone, a Democrat from Orange County, was one of the forces behind creating a task force to advise about what the state’s proposed Black history museum should look like. Now, he doesn’t want the group to submit any recommendations. The nine members — Antone wasn’t appointed to be one of them […]

Eatonville, founded in 1887 by former slaves, is the oldest existing Black municipality in the country and the birthplace of the celebrated novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston. It’s situated in Orange County, which boasts a well-developed tourist economy, and is easily accessible through an extensive highway network. This week, a state task assessing possible […]

A member of the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force on Friday pitched a museum she leads as a location for the state’s planned Black history museum, prompting calls from others on the panel to address with legal counsel whether that would constitute a conflict of interest. Terri Lipsey Scott, chosen by Senate President […]

Amid tensions over a stream of incidents — from controversial academics over slavery, NAACP travel advisories and the loss of a Black congressional district to the hate-crime killings of Black people in Jacksonville — a new task force is trying to create a statewide Florida Museum of Black History. But it’s not certain yet if […]