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Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Nov 27th, 2010

I tried a new format for the Ball at St Catherine's this year: dancing by request, requests in strict Order of Precedence. There are some records of renaissance festivities where the guests chose dances in order of rank like this, though they seem to have been even more formal.

 

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Nov 25th, 2010

We got through a lot:

William and Katherina practiced for a performance of Ginevra, and Caterine taught it to Ludwig. We re-learned Fiamma d'Amore. We tweaked a few details of La Figlia de Guglielmino and Presonera. We ran through Chiara Stella, at high speed, several times in a row. We all practiced out fioretti (and tried out the passage from passamezzo where you circle with fioretti and trabuchetti). And finally, we declared ourselves too tired to make it through La Volta, and retired for dessert.

 

 

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Nov 20th, 2010

All the dancers tonight were quite experienced, so we got through a lot of material, refining the details as we went:

  • La figlia de guglielmino (spent a while on this one, getting timing and spacing just so)
  • Presonera
  • Amoroso
  • All the mixed branles: Cassandra, Pinagay, Charlotte, La Guerre, Aridan
  • Ginevra (because Katherina and William want to perform it next weekend)
  • Pungente Dardo
  • Contentezza d'Amore
  • La volte

Lots of fun, and lots of work.

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Nov 11th, 2010

We had a really good group tonight: lots of people, some new, some quite experienced. We're still working our way through the ball list for St Catherine's and CF, making sure it's all fresh.

We started with a quick run through some of the Old Measures, for everyone:

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Nov 4th, 2010

Quick revisions of:

  • Earl of Essex
  • Old Almain
  • Black Almain
  • Cassandra, Pinagay, Charlotte
  • Chiara Stella

More work on:

  • La Volta
  • Presonera

And we didn't quite get to Il Canario. Maybe next week.

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Oct 28th, 2010

The dance list for the ball at Canterbury Faire next. We will be practising many of these over the next few weeks (until formal dance practices finish for the year in early December).

  • The Earl of Essex Measure
  • The Old Almain
  • The Black Almain
  • A Galliard
  • The Mixed Branles of Champagne: Cassandra, Pinagay, Charlotte, La Guerre, Aridan
  • The Branle de la Montarde, for sets of four

    - The Tassel-kick -

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Oct 28th, 2010

We worked our way through much of the CF ball list, and wi

ll cover the rest over the next few weeks.

Quick revisions of:

  • Earl of Essex Measure
  • Old Almain
  • Black Almain
  • Mixed branles: Cassandra, Pinagay, Charlotte, La Guerre
  • Chiara Stella

Longer practise of:

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Oct 21st, 2010
  • Rostiboli for two and three
  • Lavolta
  • La Figlia de Guglielmino
  • Presonera
  • Chiara Stella
  • Pungente Dardo
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Oct 14th, 2010
  • Amoroso
  • La Figlia di Guglielmino (for the first time)
  • step practise - fioretti
  • step practise - contrapassi
  • Ginevra
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Oct 7th, 2010

 

  • Spero, for three (16thC Italian ballo)
  • Rostiboli Gioioso for a three (15thC Italian ballo)
  • Amoroso (15th C Italian Ballo francese)
  • Ginevra (15thC Italian bassadanza)
  • Bella Gioisa, for three (16thC Italian cascarda)

 

Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Sep 30th, 2010

 

  • Rostiboli Gioioso for a couple (15thC Italian ballo)
  • Amoroso (15th C Italian Ballo francese)
  • Ginevra (15thC Italian bassadanza) - we spent most of the session refining and polishing this
  • Pungente Dardo (16thC Italian balletto)
  • step-practice: fioretti (as in Il Ballarino)
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Sep 23rd, 2010

 

  • Rostiboli Gioioso, for a couple (15thC Italian ballo)
  • Amoroso, for a couple (15thC Italian 'ballo franzese')
  • Spero, for three (15thC Italian ballo)
  • Ginevra, for a couple (15th C Italian bassadanza)
  • Leoncello Vecchio, for two people, and Leoncello Novo, for three people (15thC Italian balli)
  • Anello, for four people (15thC Italian ballo)
Posted by Ildhafn Seneschal to the Dance journal on Sep 16th, 2010

 

  • Rostiboli Gioioso for two and three people (15thC Italian balli)
  • Leoncello Vecchio, for two people, and Leoncello Novo, for three people (15thC Italian balli)
  • Ginevra, for a couple (15th C Italian bassadanza)
  • Anello, for four people (15thC Italian ballo)
  • Ly Bens Distonys, for couples (dance from the Gresley MS, English, c. 1500)
  • Branle de la Montarde, for as many as will (dance from Arbeau's Orchesography, 1589)

 

Posted by Ildhafn Seneschal to the Dance journal on Sep 15th, 2010

For the next few months we'll be concentrating on dances from the 15th century, and especially from 15th century Italy.

These are amongst the earliest surviving choreographies of European dancing. They come from a cluster of about twelve manuscripts, written in Italy during the second half of the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century. There are slow, slinky, majestic dances; bouncy, playful dances; intricate performance-pieces; and dances that have a bit of everything.

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