ANST - dead traditions

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Estrill,

OK, your point is well taken.  We have a bunch of new people here in
Mendersham wanting to learn to dance, but we only know the old dances. 
You folks out there with the "new, improved, truly period" (easy to
do/teach) dances, please tell us where we in the hinterlands can order
music and instructions (and, if possible, videos) for these.  Thanks!

(BTW, I also have fond memories of guys fighting in carpet armor.  Safety
has dictated better protection; however, even I don't often get bruises
from dancing.  Am I doing it wrong?)

Your seldom-dancing but caring klutz,

Joanna
  


On Tue, 27 Jan 98 09:15:51 -0600 dssweet at okway.okstate.edu writes:
>
>
>Joanna wrote:
>
>>By the way, even if "Hole in the Wall" has been done to death, please
>>have pity on beginners and those of us with two right feet (a little
>>"sinister" humor there) who are actually only capable of that one.  
>It is
>>easy to teach to beginners, and I have many fond memories of 
>"stealing"
>>partners.  Okay, so I'm old, but I even remember some "strip the 
>Willow"
>>marathons that were really fun!  One of these was at TYC.  (Yes,
>>Virginia, I was there way back then.)  These are the dances that the
>>prancin' , dancin' Master Giles Hill of Sweetwater started with, and 
>look
>>at him now!
>
>
> Two points: 1) Hole in the Wall is *not* that easy of a dance to 
>teach  
>                to beginners. There are many far simpler dances out    
>  
>                there. If you can do HITW, you can do probably another 
>  
>                20-30 dances easy.
>
>             2) How do I say this.....hmmmm, let's just say I don't 
>hear 
>                the fighters clamoring to go back to freon helms and   
>  
>                carpet armor. They have evolved the sport (for lack of 
>a 
>                better term before 9am) and developed better, safer (& 
>  
>                sometimes more authentic looking) armor requirements 
>(&  
>                fighting styles). I transpose this to dance. Back in 
>the 
>                good old days we danced certain dances because that 
>was  
>                all we had. As the years have passed, more research 
>has  
>                been done on dances and dancing. There are now better 
>(& 
>                more authentic) dances to be done. Let dancing evolve  
>  
>                back to a truly renaissance repertoire without         
>  
>               including dances from the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries.  
> 
>
>     Estrill
>     Tanzelehrerin
>     (I have further parallels between fighting & dancing - it's 
>really  
>      amazing how similar they are.)
>
>     "Never hire a ferret to do a weasel's job." Louie the Lizard
>
>
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