[MR] Fwd: *WH* Dancing at A Day on the Grand Canal (4/12-4/13)

[Signora Sveva Lucciola]

> Greetings All! 
> Below is the information on the dance activities. 
> If you are interested in more information about this
> event, please visit our website,
> http://geocities.com/ladysveva/GrandCanal.html
> (I hope to have this and the schedule added/updated
> this weekend)
> For any questions, please feel free to contact me
> (autocrat) and I will do my best to either answer
> them
> or refer you to the person in the know! 
> 
> Signora Sveva Lucciola
> 
> --- Miriam Robinson Gould
> <madame_sosostris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > From: "Miriam Robinson Gould"
> > <madame_sosostris at hotmail.com>
> > To: academie at pbm.com, keep at windmastershill.org
> > Subject: *WH* Dancing at A Day on the Grand Canal
> > (4/12-4/13)
> > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:45:33 
> > Reply-to: "Miriam Robinson Gould"
> > <madame_sosostris at hotmail.com>
> > 
> > Poster: "Miriam Robinson Gould"
> > <madame_sosostris at hotmail.com>
> > Greetings unto all:
> > 
> > Among the many joyous activities that will be
> > happening at A Day on the 
> > Grand Canal will be much dancing!  However, as
> this
> > dancing will not be the 
> > SCA standard model, I would like to let people
> know
> > exactly what it will be. 
> >   The first difference is that dancing will be
> > taking place during the DAY, 
> > not the night.  It will be run as a modified
> Caroso
> > Ball, befitting out 16th 
> > Century Italian theme.  What this means is that
> > there will be space set 
> > aside for those wishing to dance and seperate
> space
> > set for those wishing to 
> > watch.  Men and women will be gender-segregated,
> as
> > befits noble Italians 
> > (we wouldn't want scandal, now would we!).  There
> > will be NO TEACHING, and 
> > NO CALLING.  Instead, there will be a list of
> dances
> > (see below) and a 
> > person will have a token.  The person with the
> token
> > will select a partner 
> > and a dance and whether s/he wishes to dance "for
> > performance" (only 1 set) 
> > or "socially" (everyone can get up and join in). 
> > After the dance ends, the 
> > token will pass the original person's partner who
> > will then select the next 
> > dance and manner of dancing.  And so on and so
> > forth.
> > 
> > But do not fret if you're thinking to yourself "no
> > calling!" however will I 
> > get through a dance without it being called?  On
> > Friday night, we will have 
> > the hall for practice, where we will practice the
> > balls' dances in such 
> > great detail that one who had never before set
> foot
> > upon a dance floor will 
> > be able to dance as trippingly as any noble
> courtier
> > on Saturday.  Saturday 
> > night we will also have space to have dancing
> > post-feast.  That will be 
> > loose, informal dancing where we will dance what
> the
> > populace requests.
> > 
> > The list for the Caroso ball is:
> > 
> > 16th Century French:  Bransle Officiale
> >                       Horse's Bransle
> >                       Montarde Bransle
> >                       Pinagay
> >                       Pease Bransle
> > 
> > Inns of Court Old Measures:  Black Almain
> >                              Lorayne Almain
> >                              Madame Sosilia's
> Almain
> >                              Queen's Almain
> >                              Galliards
> > 
> > English Country Dances:  Rufty Tufty
> >                          Heart's Ease
> >                          Jenny Pluck Pears
> >                          Sellinger's Round
> >                          Upon A Summer's Day
> >                          Whirligig
> > 
> > 15th Century Italian:  Rostiboli Gioioso
> >                        Lauro
> >                        Gioioso Spagnuolo
> >                        Petit Riens
> >                        Anello
> >                        Gelosia
> > 
> > 16th Century Italian:  Bizzaria D'Amore
> >                        Gracca D'Amore
> >                        Il Piantone
> >                        Ballo del Fiore
> > In service,
> > 
> > Sayidda Tahira bint Ibrahim al-Ishbiliyya
> > 
> >
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> > 
> > Triangle Middle-Eastern Dance:  events, teachers,
> > vendors, and more!
> > 
> > www.geocities.com/sayiddatahira/meddance.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Medieval and Renaissance Story Sources
> > 
> > www.geocities.com/sayiddatahira/folklore.html
> > 
> >
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