[Artemisia] Uprising Ball

Sat Jun 14 07:56:18 CDT 2008

Hey, if we get folks who know the dances that wish to teach them, hail on. I
know Pease Bransle and Black Almain of the one's you listed. As for
Lindahl's page, I can look at the cheat sheets and interpret them because I
have a dance background and understand period dance notation. However, it's
always better to have someone who's seen and done the dances teach them.
Otherwise, it's like virtuous young'un's fumbling around in the dark: Maybe
we'll get it right, but it's going to be messy and someone's going to have a
bruise to explain.

For example, I learned Dargesons a long time ago from Niccolo in the barn at
Mountain Meadow Ranch during Uprising. I remember it fine. However, every
copy of the music for it fails to allow the proper time to finish the dance.
I've looked at the cheat sheets to make sure I'm not adding any steps and
I'm not, but if they play it all the way through, I end up running out of
music at the end of the first pass through on the siding part. If I have the
music play twice, we're doing the arming exchange for a minute. I must be
misremembering, but I can't tell where from the instructions. This is where
having someone who knows the dance would be helpful since I've done it twice
since Niccolo taught it and neither was anywhere near each other. I've tried
at Dance Practices to suss out the problem with live bodies, but in the end
I just need someone more familiar.

So please, feel free, anyone, to bring music and dancing knowledge to the
party. I will gladly turn that over to anyone who has a dance to teach and
the music to dance it. It's the only way I'll have a shot at learning the
other dances folks DON'T have a problem with! Bethany, if you get folks to
bring their instruments and play for the dancers, you are awesome, Sistah!
If folks need the CD player capacity, then so be that too. We will do
whatever we need to in order to let people dance.

Stâpanâ Catriona Morganosa, OP

You know you're entering a bachelor pad when the tenant prefaces the
appearance, not with "It's the maid's day off," but with "Don't pet the fur
in the corner. It's not an animal."

-----Original Message-----
From: artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org
[mailto:artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org] On Behalf Of Reuben and
Arwen
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 6:37 PM
To: artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Uprising Ball

I'm sorry to hear no one else has volunteered.  It is indeed very close to
the event.  I'm not a dance Laurel, I've got a Golden Maple Leaf but in
Middle Eastern Dance.  I'm willing to help this year, if you wouldn't
concider it stepping on toes, or next year if no one else steps up.  I do
have "Popular Dances of the Renaissance" on CD with a booklet by Judith
Kennedy.  It has two versions of each song; one with the steps being
narrated and one without.  I can bring it to Uprising if you'd like to
borrow it for the ball.  It includes: Bransle Double, Bransle Simple, Pease
Bransle, Washerwomen's Bransle, Bransle de Village, Pavan, Galliard,
Allemand (to Now is the Month of Maying), and Black Almain. 

Some other good online sources
are:http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance/The_Cheat_Sheets.htmlhttp://ieee.uwate
rloo.ca/praetzel/mp3-cd/

Esther

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:13:14 -0600
From: "Catriona A. Morganosa"
<catriona_a_morganosa at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Uprising Ball

Ah, but you see, I don?t KNOW any of the dances suggested except Gelosia,
which is in the list. It doesn't matter if it's period if I've
never seen
it, never heard of it, never heard the music, and didn't even know where to
go to find this allegedly "fun" series of dances, less than a week
before
the event?

What threatening to teach HotW and Korabushka DOES accomplish is it brings
folks like yourselves out of the 15th Century stonework  to run the ball,
since you have the music, you have the know how, you have the research and
you have the experience with both dancing and teaching said fabulous dances.
All I have are Playfords which are not period, SCA creations and those
terrible, tragic double progressive dances. Naughty me. Perhaps I should be
spanked with a copy of Arbeau's?

See, I'm not the dance Laurel here, my sweet, sweet darlings. I'm a
Pelican.
A simple, unassuming, never-an-insidious-plotter, totally on the up and up
Service Technician for the SCA. I mean, really! How could I be expected to
run a Grand Ball with an arsenal of dances like Korabushka ad Hole in the
Wall? But, when no one else volunteers, it is in my very nature, as well as
my fancy scrolly thing on the wall in my living room,  that I need to take
on this duty.

*sigh... blink blink blink*

Tanglsigher

St?pan? Catriona Morganosa, OP

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