[SCA-Dance] Fw: I need a word

[Tim McDaniel]

I asked,
> Is there a word for "the little adjustments that people experienced
> in a dance will make for functional reasons to make it flow better"?

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The term is "partire del terreno", one of the cardinal virtues of
> dance in the 15th century treatises.

Thank you.

Discussed in Domenico in (for example)
http://books.google.com/books?id=7uTv8eIXIt0C&pg=PA131&ots=oBG7LcrFtZ&sig=O3Bu85NYa1W0G6PwjuJbowEq0eA&ei=A_8uUbiWEIXWrQHexIDYCg#v=onepage&q&f=false
It's a short read, less than half a page.  I saw a reference that his
student Ebreo also discussed it.

Danyll de Lyncoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com