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. 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.
References
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