Alick-Maud Pledge

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. alt=The tombstone at the grave of Alick-Maud Pledge, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Other names on the stone are Eugène Marcault, Marie Marcault Debrot, Yvette Couturier, and Léo Debrot.) The tombstone at the grave of Alick-Maud Pledge, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Other names on the stone are Eugène Marcault, Marie Marcault Debrot, Yvette Couturier, and Léo Debrot.)

Personal life Pledge died in 1949, in her mid-fifties. Her gravesite is in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.