Very Early Dance ?

[Deborah Sweet]

>From the sca-dance list.

Estrill
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Subject: Re:  Very Early Dance ?
Author:  meredith at bostech.com at SMTP
Date:    10/20/95 1:48 PM


>It's the Dark Ages ... We've just beaten off an attack ... have a revel to 
>remember.  To entertain the court, we have singers, jugglers, story tellers, 
>mimes, musicians, and . . . . dancers.

>...
>What kind of dance will we see if we hire a "professional dance troupe?"

I know of no evidence, but my guess is that you'll see something akin to
a gymnastics floor-exercise routine, or a circus acrobat's performance. 
 
I don't remember the source references
for the story of Our Lady's Tumbler (poor tumbler wants to make an offering
to the Virgin Mary, performing for her is the best he can do, someone tells
himn he's being disrespectful but she indicates approval of the offering),
but that's the closest thing that comes to mind as a description of what
the original posting was asking for.  You might try 'history of circus arts'
as keywords for investigating - maybe the educational/outreach function of
the Big Apple Circus or the Cirque du Soleil could supply references?

Just a guess ...

Mara Kolarova (Carolingia, East Kingdom)
Meredith Courtney
meredith at bostech.com