[Bg-dance] "Arm position in Renaissance dance"

[Charlene Charette]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> <http://katrowberd.elizabethangeek.com/articles/armposition.mhtml> is
> a short,nice article titled "Arm position in Renaissance dance".
> The illustrations shown all have hands at "natural level", that is,
> more or less at the waist though not necessarily straight.
>
> Dankyn Lincoln

Is there still any question about this? I thought it was settled years
ago. Paintings and woodcuts show couples holding hands as shown in
these examples. There is an exception -- there's an Italian painting
showing three dancers holding "hands" but linking pinkies at shoulder
level. I haven't seen the "Hollywood" hold in SCA dance in over 10
years.

--Perronnelle


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