[Ansteorra] iso european dancers ??

Tue Feb 14 12:53:28 PST 2012

greetings

that's not really that hard to find a solution for.
the awards wouldn't be for the individual, but the team.
in 4 person dances , 4 member teams would compete, etc.
 yes that means even more scroll work, but I would think it worth while.

why, how shameful, 3 lords among all those lovely ladies , have the poor 
lads recovered enough to try dancing again ??  : P

anyway thank you all information is good ; )

Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun .
Arthur
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Young" <laura.young.9191 at gmail.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] iso european dancers ??

> One of the reasons I would think it would be difficult to award a 
> Eurodance
> title is that they are all (I believe) group dances, needing at least four
> people.  How would you choose a single person as a winner?  The number of
> people needed, and the requirement of multiples of two, four, or six, is
> probably also one of the contributing factors towards its drop in
> popularity.  As far as garb goes, if you were competing I guess you should
> have late period (=expensive) garb, but at K A&S there were people in 
> early
> garb, late garb, and a couple of newcomers.  I don't think the basic steps
> are hard to learn.  Doing them with skill, grace, and panache, well, 
> that's
> another story :)  As to the Lords vs Ladies, we had 3, I think, Lords out
> of a groups that varied from 8-12 dancers.
>
> Beonne
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Ld.blackmoon <ld.blackmoon at cox.net> 
> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <myfanwy at pug.net>
>>
>> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org**>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:30 AM
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] iso european dancers ??
>>
>>
>>  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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