[SCA-BMDL] Fwd: [SCA-Dance] Dancing in a 15th c. castle, again!

[Raven]

Right!  Who wants to day trip?


--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Ben Cogan <donnghaile at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ben Cogan <donnghaile at gmail.com>
> Subject: [SCA-BMDL] Fwd: [SCA-Dance] Dancing in a 15th c. castle, again!
> To: "AEthelmearc" <Discussion at aethelmearc.org>, "BMDL" <Sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>, "dance" <bmdl-dance at eclecsia.org>
> Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 8:50 AM
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: judithsca at aol.com <judithsca at aol.com>
> Date: Jun 13, 2008 7:25 AM
> Subject: [SCA-Dance] Dancing in a 15th c. castle, again!
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org, dance at atlantia.sca.org,
> sca-dance at sca-dance.org, KnightsCrossing at yahoogroups.com,
> DW-L at drachenwald.sca.org, meadowmarsh at yahoogroups.com
> 
> 
> Salvete!
> ??? I am hereby announcing that the next Academia della
> Danza, to be
> held in the 15th c. Pfaelzer Schloss, will take place from
> March 15th
> to March 13th.? Mark your calendars now for another
> magical, fire-lit
> weekend in another time.
> 
> Judith
> 
> 
> The right noble lord Baron of the Ancient lands of Knights
> Crossing has
> declared that his subjects, noble in their demeanour,
> should learn the
> ancient art of dance, that they may better grace his court
> with knowledge of
> this gentler art.  To this effect, he has hired sundry
> dance masters from
> lands far and wide to come and provide instruction.  For
> one weekend, his
> holding, the Pfaelzer Schloss, shall play host to a school
> of dance, known
> in the tongue of more refined courts as an academia della
> danza.  In
> addition to learning, there shall be terpsichorean revels
> and a ball as no
> one has seen in many years.  The lord baron bids one and
> all to come and
> partake!
> 
> 
> 
> Site information: Pfaelzer Schloss, Pfaelzergasse, Gross
> Umstadt, Germany.
> 
> Site opens at 1500 on Friday, March 13, and closes on
> Sunday, March 15 at
> 1500 (we must be cleaned up and out of the Hall by this
> point).  Site is wet
> (which could significantly aid the rhythmically challenged
> in the pursuit of
> happiness..); there are no showers on site.  Site is
> limited to 110,
> 
> 
> 
> Classes:  Classes will begin at 19:00.  The last class will
> finish at 1300 on
> Sunday, March 15.  There will be two tracks of classes, to
> suit all tastes:
> a beginner track, and an intermediate/advanced track.
> 
> 
> 
> Ball:  There will be a formal ball on Saturday evening
> following feast,
> which will be a reconstruction of a ball chronicled in Ulm
> in 1503.  After
> this, there will be an open revel; dancers may then
> "pay" the
> musicians for their dances of choice with eggs
> (to be purchased on site, all proceeds go directly to the
> musicians).
> 
> 
> 
> Food: There will be a hearty stew provided Friday evening,
> breakfast, lunch
> and feast on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday (with
> leftovers from feast
> serving as lunch).
> 
> 
> 
> Sleeping arrangements:  There is crash space  (no bedding)
> in the two halls
> on site in the castle (one of which is not heated), but you
> must have your
> bedding packed up and stored away out of sight during the
> day as these are
> the same two halls in which we will be dancing.  Otherwise,
> Gross Umstadt is
> a charming little medieval town with numerous reasonably
> priced inns
> (reasonable = 50-90 EUR for a double room per night), one
> of which sits
> directly across the street from the castle, the Hotel Hax.
> 
> 
> 
> Cost: Total cost for the weekend will be 30 EUR per person
> over 12.
> Children 7-12 10 EUR for the weekend.  Children under 7 are
> free.  There
> will be a family cap of 60 EUR for the weekend.
> 
> 
> Travel: For those who are travelling from afar, crash space
> can be
> arranged in the
> days before and after the event--- turn it in to a central
> European
> vacation!  The nearest airport is Frankfurt International
> (not
> frankfurt Hahn, which is 250 km from the site). We will
> attempt to
> arrange
> transport as much as possible.
> 
> 
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