[Bg-dance] Help for my niece

[tmcd at panix.com]

My niece is an elementary-school teacher and just sent me this e-mail
below.

Suggestions?  Mailing lists I might ask on?  I'm thinking late,
simple, and energetic -- Half Hannigan might be too complicated.
Horse's Bransle, maybe?  Maltese Bransle?

There's the simplest almande and pavane, though I don't remember their
names (either Queen's or Black, for the almande; Carolingian for the
pavane?), where it's just forward and back.

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    Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
    From: michelle mcdaniel ...
    To: tmcd at panix.com

so, I got directed to an SCA website the other day.
Our school is doing an integrated arts night with
Shakespeare (riiiight..."ok first graders, today we
are talking about romeo and juliet and its this story
of this kid who loves this other kid and their parents
didnt like it so they both killed themselves.")
ANyway, I have to do this whole unit with the kids and
staff on Reniassance dancing for the final night show.
 I got directed to a good site describing all the
dances.  Don't get me wrong- I like those dances..i do
them every summer in my Orff levels and we learn all
the proper ways to do them and the instrumentation and
so on but seriously...ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!!! COME ON-we
are 5-11 years old here!!!!

oh well.

:)
just thought youd like to know.  So- if you know of
any good midieval or Renassiance dancing sites...send
them my way! 9as long as its somewhere dated from
1500-1630ish..I'm not too picky!

keep in touch,
michelle