[Bg-dance] Dit de Bourgignon

[Charlene Charette]

Years ago I tried tracking down the origins of several "odd" dances;
Dit died out in the Stargate area when Signy moved. Here's an excerpt
from my notes.

--Perronnelle



Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] Dit de Bourgignon
From: Jane & Mark Waks <waks at comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:58:15 -0500
To: sca-dance at andrew.cmu.edu

Let's see -- this ought to be in the old East Kingdom Dance Book,
since it's of that period. Yep, here it is.

Okay -- modern choreography, albeit more reputable in origin than
some. The introductory paragraph:

"This dance is a re-creation of a "choral", or round dance using dance
steps of the period of the music, "Dit de Bourgignon", as
choreographed by Dr. Ingrid Brainard."

So it's more or less in the same genre as Quen Quer Que -- a
reasonably well-informed guess at what a chorale might look like.

Note that Ingrid was *very* strict in her later days that SCA accounts
should be listed as "based on the work of Dr. Ingrid Brainard" -- I
get the impression that she'd been feeling a bit burned by SCA
mistransmissions of her work in the past, and didn't want to be blamed
for our mistakes any more. So it probably shouldn't be taken for
granted that it's a faithful communication of her choregraphy...

                -- Justin


Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] Dit de Bourgignon
From: Mary Railing <mrailing at kiva.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:11:28 -0500
To: sca-dance at andrew.cmu.edu

It is a modern choreography, an early effort by Ingrid Brainhard. (We
all had to somewhere.)  A old SCA-dance post says that the citation is
in the old East Kingdom Dance Manual.  I seem to remember seeing this,
along with the name of the person who was teaching it in the SCA in
some of my dance notes, but I sure can't find it now. Some old
Carolingian will surely know.

--Urraca