[Ansteorra] iso european dancers ??

[myfanwy at pug.net]

My two cents worth:

Middle Eastern dance only requires one person to perform.  European dance has a minimum of two and sometimes more.  That right there leads to the difficulty of naming a champion in the sense that we are used to thinking about it.  Now, as I started thinking, I came up with some ideas on how to potentially make it so that one person was a winner, but I think we need more dancers to make that interesting.

So, right now, we need to work on getting more dancers.  The European dance group in this kingdom had some unfortunate internal problems for a bit, and so the encouragement was difficult because we were all personally frustrated.  We have gotten over most of our personal issues, and so we are being a lot more encouraging.

As far as how difficult, if you can walk, you can do a lot of the dances.

Myfanwy

On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Ld.blackmoon wrote:

> greetings
> 
> ahh, ok, thank you .
> it sounds like most of the European dancers live in the south of ansteorra.( at least from the responses so far )
> and since there is no kingdom European dance competition, I have to assume that there is much less interest in that than there is in middle eastern dancing , for which there is a kingdom championship / title .
> are there any thoughts as to why this would be so ?
> is it based on what time and place your persona lived , so that others feel they can't participate without the " proper garb ?
> is it very hard to learn such courtly graces ?? ( especially if you were born with no rhythm and two left feet ? )
> is it the " shameful " public strutting between lord and lady ??
> 
> or perhaps on how to gather new participants??
> I know the few times i've seen European dances, all the dancers were dressed in what looked like very expensive garb, is there a cost barrier ?
> 
> anyway , just an opinionated old fart sticking his nose into something new ; )
> thanks again
> Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun .
> Arthur
> 
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>> In Bryn Gwlad, we have an active dance practice that regularly has 20ish people or so in attendance.  Shadowlands also has a group of dancers.  As somebody stated, Bryn Gwlad's Candlemas has started a tradition of having dances between the removes of feast.  Shadowlands has started regularly having a small event that has dancing.  Gulf Wars, every night there is dancing.  Same with Pennsic.  They have many people at the balls.  Pennsic the classes are usually fairly busy also. There are a few dancers in other places, but those are the active guilds that I know about.  As dancing is a social activity, we are always willing to teach you whatever dance we know!
>> 
>> Myfanwy
>> 
>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Ld.blackmoon wrote:
>> 
>>> greetings
>>> 
>>> as part of a conversation earlier today, it was mentioned that there are people that practice dances from the sca's primary time / place  ( pre 16th century european countries )
>>> i being poorly designed for dancing of any type ( having 2 left feet ) was curious as to how many and how far apart those individuals , or groups may currently be ?
>>> also of interest , are there any events that showcase such period endevors ??
>>> 
>>> thank you in advance
>>> your friendly opinionated old fart ; )
>>> Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun .
>>> Arthur
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