Ildhafn Council Meeting Minutes September
In Attendance: Angela Wells (Seneschal), Shannon Wanty (Reeve, A&S), Nicola Haliday (Marshal), Patrick Bowman (Herald)
Via Skype
Apologies: Phil Mason (Constable), David Robb (Webwright), Chantelle Gerrard (soon to be A&S)
Absent:
As we had the pleasure of Monna Fina's company for an afternoon, we had an extra dance practice this week.
Present: Fina, Anna, Caterine, William, Katherina
Dances: Lorrayne Almain, Black Almain, Contentezza d'Amore (from Il Ballarino), Gracca Amorosa.
Present: William, Katherina, Anna, Caterine
Finally put all four verses of Spagnoletta Nuova in modo di Madriglia together. More revision of Lioncello, Contrapasso Nuovo.
Present: Anna, Caterine, William, Katherina
Learned the third verse of Spagnoletta Nuova in modo di Madgriglia. Brought Contrapasso Nuovo out of mothballs (doing it with a missing couple). Brushed up Leoncello Vecchio. Played with Amoroso, and the random playlist.
Spagnoletta works to Ramstein, far better than you'd think.
Class: Plays with single sword (spada da filo)
The plays start in Porta di Ferro Stretta stepping towards the opponent (gathering steps) to provoke a response.
Katherina, William and Caterine had a full, strenuous but fairly casual evening.
After warming up (Spero, some others I now forget) we spent the first half of the practice revising the first half of Spagnoletta Nuova in modo di Madriglia.
The rest of the evening was improvisatory:
Rapier, rapier and dagger, rapier and buckler, dagger, dagger and buckler. Smiles and bruises all round.
The stormy weather appeared to keep quite a few people away today. However, those of us that were there made the most of it by consuming the rest of the gateau that I made the other day.
Martuccio exercised all his patience to sew seams by hand for his new paned hose - black, of course. Meanwhile Christine was sewing down gold cord onto a lovely red velvet bodice guarded in deeper red velvet.
Karen's been busy making yet more tablet weaving cards, and she told me about some new looms that she's been working on - it all sounds very exciting.
I'm slowly accumulating accessories to go with my new gown. This was a very quick, very cheap project; and the finished product looks a lot like the pictures. I was even able to get real (though poor-quality) pearls for no more than the cost of plastic beads. My pearls are a little smaller and more irregular than most of those depicted, but they're not bad.
Present: Katherina,William, Nadia, Caterine
