From david.a.learmonth at gmail.com Fri Apr 12 02:19:32 2013 From: david.a.learmonth at gmail.com (David Learmonth) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:19:32 -0400 Subject: [SCA-Dance] pennsicdance: [sca-dance] Pennsic Class Deadline This Weekend! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Have you Registered your Classes yet for Pennsic? There is still time to get them in the Book: http://pennsicdance.aands.org/ http://pennsicuniversity.org/index.html Yay Dancing! From tmcd at panix.com Tue Apr 16 01:41:38 2013 From: tmcd at panix.com (tmcd at panix.com) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:41:38 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [SCA-Dance] Dolchezza D'Amore by H.L. Vashti of the Flaming Tresses Message-ID: Honorable Lady Vashti of the Flaming Tresses was the dance instructor for the Barony of the Steppes (Dallas, Texas) for some years. Philip White and I both started learning dance with her. Unfortunately, in the 1990s, she died of breast cancer after a long struggle. I'm cleaning and gathering in preparation for a move. I ran across instructions for Dolchezza D'Amore (The Sweetness of Love), a dance invented by her. The only other notes I had was an abbrev. version in Terpsichore at the Towers #10. (I taught at an early one or two, which is how it got there, possibly written up by someone else after adaptations for danceability? or maybe I garbled it? but it had to be removed to make room by about #11 or so.) I think that several figures were made up for this, so I have my doubts about the period style. Also, I can't remember how we dance dit well enough to reconcile the handout with Terp #10 with the music. Still, I typed this up so I'd have my own digital record, and I'd like to get it into the list archives, as a little memorial to a friend who taught dance to many in Ansteorra. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This text is from a handout, probably from Vashti. {Text in curly braces like this is from the booklet from Terpsichore at the Tower #10. It's notated "== In 4 ==", but some are in 4 and most are in 2.} Dolchezza D'Amore (The Sweetness of Love) music by 16th c. harper O'Crolan, 'Planxty Burke' choreography by Vashti of the Flaming Tresses [I believe the arrangement she used was Patrick Ball, _Celtic Harp, Volume III: Secret Isles_. The problem is that the music is AABBAABBAABBCCDDDAABB, where each letter is 16 beats except C is 14 beats. The two versions of the chorus steps are 20 and 24 beats. I don't remember how we fit the music -- maybe we just used it for the beat? And/or maybe she edited out CCDDD?] The dance is for a couple. [We danced it in a line facing the sides of the hall, probably for space reasons] The chorus is a long one, taking 6 sets of the music: 4 counts - 2 Passi Puntatti, Man & Lady exchange places in half a diamond as in Cuckold's All Awry [I'm not sure of the redaction she's referring to there. These steps as she taught it were each of them to walk a chevron in two steps-and-closes. Each takes a step forward while turning 1/4 left, so they end back to back: when dancing in lines, they are in the middle, men are facing the presence, women are facing away. Then step backwards with the right 1/4 turning towards left into the other's original position.] 2 counts - Man turns counterclockwise 2 counts - Lady turns counterclockwise 4 counts - Step away with two Passi Puntati Fiachiagare, ending facing [Google can't find that adjective. Maybe someone named Fiacha made up this step? As best I recall, it rather resembled the backing up in the chorus of Gracca Amoroso: sidling away by the left with a step, sidling away by the right with a step] 2 counts - Man stamps L foot - brush forward & back and stamp 2 counts - Lady answers [does the same] with L foot 4 counts - 2 Spetzatti forward 2 counts - Lady stamps w/ R foot 2 counts - Man answers w/ R foot 24 counts - Repeat to other side {Ch Singles L&R in chevron pattern, switching places with partner 1 Turn CCW in 1 Double[;] Rip L (L shoulder out); Rip R (R shoulder out) 1;1;1 Lds stamp L foot (brush forward, back, stamp); Lys stamp R foot 1;1 2 Spez fwd; Lys stamp R root (as above); Lds stamp R foot 1;1 Repeat entire chorus 10} 1st verse: begins with Lady & Man holding hands in prospectiva Count-Step & Figure 4 - Reverenza 4 - 2 Continenze, one each L & R 8 - Pavanne set fwd 4 - Continenza L & R 4 - Turn over L shoulder with a double 8 - repeat Continenza Sequence to R, turning over R shoulder. End facing partner. {Terp 10 has this, but I think the 2's are in 2 and the 1's are in 4. V1 Reverence; Continenza L&R; Slow singles L&R; 2 doubles 2;2;2;2 Con L&R; Double L (turning CCW); Con R&L; Double R (turning CW) 1;1;1;1} chorus {Terp agrees with the handout from here on} Man's solo: 8 - 4 Spetzatti around Lady clockwise 8 - Man Corinto (3 Reprise & 1 Trebucchetto) L & R chorus Lady's solo: 16 - Same as Man's chorus 8 - Taking R hands, do 4 spetzatti, circling each other. 8 - Take L hands, do 4 spetzatti back to place 4 - Taking both hands, Corinto clockwise (L) in circle 4 - Corinto Counterclockwise 4 - Corinto to L (away from partner) dropping hands 4 - Corinto to R chorus, leaving off last Stamping Sequence, replaced by 4 - Reverenza From jducoeur at gmail.com Tue Apr 16 08:07:03 2013 From: jducoeur at gmail.com (Justin du coeur) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:07:03 -0400 Subject: [SCA-Dance] Dolchezza D'Amore by H.L. Vashti of the Flaming Tresses In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:41 AM, wrote: > 4 counts - Step away with two Passi Puntati Fiachiagare, ending facing > [Google can't find that adjective. Maybe someone named Fiacha made > up this step? Typo, perhaps? That really looks like it wants to translate as "flankingly". (fiancheggiare) From charlene281 at gmail.com Tue Apr 16 13:33:52 2013 From: charlene281 at gmail.com (Charlene Charette) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:33:52 -0500 Subject: [SCA-Dance] Dolchezza D'Amore by H.L. Vashti of the Flaming Tresses In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:41 AM, wrote: 4 counts - Step away with two Passi Puntati Fiachiagare, ending facing > [Google can't find that adjective. Maybe someone named Fiacha made > up this step? As best I recall, it rather resembled the backing up > in the chorus of Gracca Amoroso: sidling away by the left with a step, > sidling away by the right with a step] > fiancheggiare (v.) = to flank; usually steps done "flankingly" are on a diagonal --Perronnele