[SCA-Dance] Fw: Help with some Itailian Dances

[John Farmer]

I must say that I am new enough to the SCA that I don't know what's danced throughout Artemisia, I only know what we dance in the Barony of Arn Hold.  We haven't done most of these dances.  That's why I'm needing help to learn these dances.  We are discussing the idea of having a Venetian Ball for our Masked Ball next January and these are the dances we are looking at having for the Ball.  We don't have anyone in Arn Hold that knows these dances, so I am having to learn them from any source I can find.  I have the dance steps, but no music and I have never seen them done, so I don't know if I'm performing the steps properly.  Thank you all for your help so far, you've been a great help.  Any other videos or information about this would be very much appreciated.
 
Eadric Hameresmithe

--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] Fw: Help with some Itailian Dances
To: "Catriona Morganosa" <catriona_a_morganosa at hotmail.com>
Cc: sca-dance at sca-dance.org
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 9:01 PM

There are two periods of Italian dances that the SCA does.  15th century
Italian dances, as described in the works of Domenico, Guglielmo Ebreo and
Cornazzano, are characterized by relatively simple steps using four
"tempi" explained in the theory sections of the sources.  The dances
tend to be very irregular, rather than symmetrical, use a lot of "follow
the leader" figures, and often act out a theme, like "jealousy."

This is a video of Petit Riense, one of the dances you were asking about. Note
the simple steps and "follow the leader"parts :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGpCuLR-sM

16th century Italian dances emphasize footwork.  There are a large number of
steps described in precise detail.  The dances are often complex and fast, but
tend to be much more symmetrical than in the previous period.

This is a well-filmed video by a Czech ensemble.  They only show excerpts of
various dances, but it is a very good example of how 16th c. Italian steps and
figures should look.  Note how much more complex these dances are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqvoFHekE0c

I'm still curious about your list of dances.  I'm not familiar at all
with Artemisia.  Are these dances commonly done in your kingdom?

--Urraca


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From: Catriona Morganosa <catriona_a_morganosa at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2009 1:17:11 AM
Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] Fw:  Help with some Itailian Dances


Eadric and I live in Artemisia and were wondering what sorts of steps or moves
or music or whatever makes a dance distinctly Italian?

Tangl 

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