[SCA-Dance] Fw: Gresley: Grene Gynger

[sarah scroggie]

To be honest, I feel that after reconstructing most of the 26 dances that
they feel somewhat like a bridge between the inns of court dances and the
15th century italian balli. (Some time I would like to write an article on
this.) the simple tree person dances are more of a balli form, the more
complex ones do a lot of figures within a triangle form which is almost
more 16th italian, somewhat like Allegrezza D'amore or Bella gioso, but not
really. they are not really like anything else. Some of the two person
dance could almost fit the structure of an Inns of Court Allman with little
alteration. Others again are quite different. What I have enjoyed about
reconstructing the dances (issues of step and floor pattern description
asside) is that there is a very wide range of form and complexity in the
dances from very simple to rather hard.

     Emma


On 4 June 2012 11:19, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I find it surprising that your dancers think Gresley dances feel
> > ECD-like. They are much more like 15th century Italian dances than
> > like anything in the ECD repertoire. I wonder if it is just that
> > Scadians are conditioned to believe Italian dance = scary dance.
>
> More that *I hope* they feel it's more ECD-like.
>
> A problem is the fancy footwork in Italian Ren -- maybe I'm
> emphasizing the footwork too much?  I'm not even going as far as "and
> Perronnelle says that these doubles should be done rising with each
> step and go flat on the last step".  Well, OK, I didn't say it more
> than once.  At least one lady said something like "I did ballet in
> school and I'm not doing it now".
>
> Still, of the 5 of us present (light house the last few times), 2 or 3
> had trouble even with pive.
>
> Danyll de Linccolne
> --
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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Sarah Scroggie,
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-- 
Sarah Scroggie,
Mother and Theatre technician/ set designer

Cell: (519) 217 7274
Home: (519) 940-0047