[SCA-Dance] Throwing out assumptions about Arbeau
Andrew Draskoy
adraskoy at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 13:00:26 EDT 2008
Neat! I've not been to Pennsic for a good decade now, I think. One
day I'll return... Is this approach is being applied to everything in
Arbeau (in particular)?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:42:15AM -0230, Andrew Draskoy wrote:
>
>> Here's a recent example: Reading through Branle des Chevaulx, I once
>> again was faced with the old conundrum of what is the overall
>> formation?
>
> At Pennsic, you'll frequently see what I like to call the "Occam's
> Razor" reconstruction of this dance: some couples in a line, some
> couples in a circle, some individual couples dancing with various
> handholds... the object being to dance as many plausible
> reconstructions as possible. It's a fun game.
>
> -- Gregory
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