The Letter of Dance Welcome to the home page for The Letter of Dance, the newsletter for Renaissance and SCA Dance. This page copies nearly all of the information presented in the paper version of the newsletter. Readers are encouraged to browse at will. If you want to copy any of the contents, please take note of the copyright notice, in the Introduction below. Contents: Introduction to The ...

And there is more to it than this, for dancing is practised to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savour one another, thus to ascertain if they are shapely or emit an unpleasant odour as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be ...

The web's central resource for information on European dance from the fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries.

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And there is more to it than this, for dancing is practised to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savour one another, thus to ascertain if they are shapely or emit an unpleasant odour as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be ...

Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets And then you know, the youth must needs go dance, First galliards -- then larousse, and heidegy -- Old Lusty Gallant -- All the flowers of the Broom. And then a hall, for dancers must have room... And to it then: with set, and turn about, Change sides, and cross, and mince it like a hawk; Backwards and forwards, take hands then, in and out; And, now and then, a ...

Primary sources of information on dance in Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, and a few helpful secondary works.

Dance Music (sheet music, sound files) SCA Dance and Music search engine SCA dance music CDs and books for sale as well as most CDs in Real Audio and MP3's (currently over 10 CDs). The sheet music includes the SCA dance music arrangements (MIDI, RealAudio, PDF, Postscript) from every source that I've found since 1994. SCA dance music melodies for recorder & flute For people who are learning the ...

Renaissance dance, mostly from 15th-century Italy, including dance reconstructions of balli and bassadanze by Domenico da Piacenza and Guglielmo Ebreo. Information on classes in Toronto.

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See our recently-accepted (June 2001) heraldry! L'Academie Atlantienne de la Danse (The Atlantian Academy of Dance, or simply The Academie ) is a group, mostly belonging to the Society for Creative Anachronism, dedicated to furthering the practice of, and research into, the dancing arts of the Renaissance. We are dancers, musicians, instructors, and every-day people who enjoy dancing and the ...

Contains links to articles and essays on aspects of 15th-17th century dance.

Basingstoke Early Dance practice and perform the social dances of the period between 1450 and 1650. We can be hired for events under our trade name Renaissance Footnotes ...

Thrir Venstri Foetr (Three Left Feet) Thrir Venstri Foetr is a dance group and band organized to recreate and explore medieval music and renaissance music and dance, concentrating primarily on English Country Dance. The name Thrir Venstri Foetr is Old Norse for Three Left Feet, and the group is known by the English version of its name as well as the Norse. We are based in the Washingon, DC ...

Renaissance Dance Written by Sarah Boronow October 12, 1998 MUSC 242 Dancing was a favorite pastime in the Renaissance. Dancing was an elegent form of exercise and an expected social skill for the noble. (Franko, 37) There were basically two types of social dances in the Renaissance. The first type were simple dances that were performed by an unlimited number of people. These dances were usually ...

Joy and Jealousy: A Manual of 15th-Century Italian Balli Written by Vivian Stephens and Monica Cellio Note: This book is currently out of print. The text is available at http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/Joy_Jealousy; this copy does not yet include the music arrangements. This book, published August 1997, reconstructs the steps, choreographies, and music for two dozen renaissance dances (balli) ...

Renaissance Dance Pages By Bruce A. Padget, Known in the Society for Creative Anachronism as Niccolo Gianfigliazzi Genovese, O.P., C.B., D.W.S. (BAPadget@cs.com) One-Day European Dance Curriculum Dance Notes, Handouts, and Cheat Sheets For the Introduction to Italian Dance Class at Gryphon's Fury V (September, 1999) and Artemisian Collegium, November 13, 1999. For the Teaching Ball at Gryphon's ...

Early Dance Some information to get you started, provided by the Capriol Society for Early Dance, Cambridge. The Capriol Society will hold its 16th Cambridge Early Dance Weekend in April 2001. Updated 20.12.2000. In every culture, going back to prehistory, there has been music, song, dance and rhythm. The current popularity of Early Music shows how many people delight in sounds from the past.

The Home Page of Norman W. Gray My favourite sayings are ... nil novi super terram I joined the SCA to get away from computers. I would have had better luck at the IBM social club! About Me I am a computer analyst/designer/programmer of too many years. I am currently involved in user interface design (usability) and knowledge based software. One hobby of mine is Renaissance Dance, i.e. European ...