Alick-Maud Pledge Explained

Alick-Maud Pledge
Birth Date:	1893
Birth Place:	London
Death Date:	1949
Death Place:	Paris

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 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.^[1] 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 (VOLUME 3) Apprentissage du genre et institutions éducatives. Lharmattan, 2006, 55–69.

External links

• Miss Pledge (1893-1949) by Yves Guilcher
• Education et mouvement

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fiches de danse folk : Chapelloise (Aleman's marsj) - Cancoillottefolk. https://web.archive.org/web/20120822111235/http://www.cancoillottefolk.com/danse/fiches/fiche.php?id_fiche=31. dead. 2012-08-22. 2012-08-22. 2020-03-04.