Dance Post 1
Mar. 10th, 2008 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teleribAfter the lovely wedding of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gkacsns and giddysinger, there was a fairly exuberant reception with traditional music by Tinsmith, Morris dancing, and some very kickass cake. During one of the Tinsmith instrumentals, I grabbed a couple of little boys by the hands to dance. We skipped around in a line, and some folks joined us, and one of the boys (6 years old!) spontaneously decided to turn and turn until he'd made the line a circle (dancers facing out, no less).
It was exhausting but an awful lot of fun. So it makes me wonder how much fun it might be to "choreograph" some simple dances to early medieval music. I'm putting "choreograph" in quotes because I don't think the dancing I have in mind really deserves that designation. I'm imagining "dancers in a line," a basic follow-the-leader dance like a conga line (or that English country one where you've got lines of four, and the chorus has each person clapping and hopping in a circle), and "dancers in a circle," where you mostly go left or right but some proto-bransle figures could be used, too.
I do love "real" late-period (or post-period) SCA dancing, but there's something to be said for simple exuberance.
gkacsns and giddysinger, there was a fairly exuberant reception with traditional music by Tinsmith, Morris dancing, and some very kickass cake. During one of the Tinsmith instrumentals, I grabbed a couple of little boys by the hands to dance. We skipped around in a line, and some folks joined us, and one of the boys (6 years old!) spontaneously decided to turn and turn until he'd made the line a circle (dancers facing out, no less).It was exhausting but an awful lot of fun. So it makes me wonder how much fun it might be to "choreograph" some simple dances to early medieval music. I'm putting "choreograph" in quotes because I don't think the dancing I have in mind really deserves that designation. I'm imagining "dancers in a line," a basic follow-the-leader dance like a conga line (or that English country one where you've got lines of four, and the chorus has each person clapping and hopping in a circle), and "dancers in a circle," where you mostly go left or right but some proto-bransle figures could be used, too.
I do love "real" late-period (or post-period) SCA dancing, but there's something to be said for simple exuberance.
