Present: Anna, William, Caterine, Ludwig, Katherina
Warm-up: Ginevra, Amoroso (including an improvised 3-person variant)
Main Session - Negri's Canary
Revision of all mutanze learned so far:
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Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Jan 10th, 2011
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Jan 6th, 2011
Present: Anna, William, Caterine, Katherina
Warmup: Amoroso, La Figlia de Guglielmino
Main Session - Pavaniglia
Revision of
- first two structural verses
- first and second mutanze
- forth mutanza
Skimmed through the third and fifth mutanze. Danced the whole thing through several times, including all verses.
NOTE: we need a more detailed revision of the 5th mutanza, the separating verse, and the final verse.
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Jan 3rd, 2011
Present: William, Anna, Caterine, Katherina
Warmup: Figlia de Guglielmino, Chiara Stella
Main Session : Canario
New material (for at least some present)
- Man's first mutanza
- Man's second mutanza (including ritirata, which we hadn't previously done with any success)
- new interpretation of the seguito spezzato in Canario
Katherina practiced her current interpretation of the man's third mutanza, which she'll teach next time.
Revision:
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 30th, 2010
Present: Caterine, William, Katherina
Warmup: Rostiboli Gioioso for three
Main Session : Pavaniglia
We had Canario scheduled for this session, but did Pavaniglia instead, because that's what I had prepared.
Revision
- first mutanza for both man and woman; fourth mutanza for both man and woman
New Material (for this year, anyway)
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 27th, 2010
Present: Caterine, William, Ludwig (Canary only), Katherina
Warmup: Black Almain
Main Session : Pavaniglia
Revision
- man's fourth mutanza
New Material (for this year, anyway)
- woman's fourth mutanza
- dancing mans's and woman's fourth mutanza simultaneously
- first mutanza, for both man and woman
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 23rd, 2010
Present: William, Ludwig, Katherina
Warmup: Rostiboli Gioioso for three (with two men and one woman, for a change)
Main Session: Canario
Revision
- woman's first mutanza
- woman's second mutanza
- structural verses (intro, change-ends, finale : new to Ludwig, in this form)
New Material
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 18th, 2010
Present: William, Anna, Katherina
Warm-up: Rostiboli Gioioso for three
Main session - Pavaniglia - 4th mutanza:
Learned the whole of the man's 4th mutanza, on both sides (verses 11 and 12). Katherina practiced the woman's 4th mutanza, but didn't teach it.
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 16th, 2010
Our first advanced-dancing session for the summer!
Present: Katherina, Anna, William, Caterine
Warm up: Pungente Dardo, Amoroso
Main Session: Canario
Revision
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 15th, 2010
Regular dance classes have finished for the year, and will re-start in February, but we're still dancing!
Posted by Katherina Weyssin to the Dance journal on Dec 2nd, 2010
Our last class of 2010, and we have a lovely session, with both familiar faces and some new ones. Please come back next year!
We got through:
- Cassandra
- Pinagay
- Charlotte
(all 16th century French branles, from the manual "Orchesography")
- Amoroso
- Rostiboli Gioioso
- Petit Riens
(all balli from 15th century Italian manuscripts)
- La Volta
(a variation on the galliard, in which the woman leaps, and the man spins her, while helping her to leap even higher)
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)