Alick-Maud Pledge


Alick-Maud Pledge was an English folk dance and gymnastics teacher in France.

Early life

Alick-Maud Pledge was born in London.

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. 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 Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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 Apprentissage du genre et institutions éducatives. Lharmattan, 2006, 55–69.