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| Born | 1893 London |
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Alick-Maud Pledge (1893–1949) was an English folk dance and gymnastics teacher in France.
Alick-Maud Pledge (sometimes written as Maud Alick Pledge) was born in London. [1]
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.
Pledge died in 1949, in her mid-fifties. Her gravesite is in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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