[Bryn-gwlad] Ansteorran-performers group

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Peters Athena <drgngoddess_2k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, gail young <gwynethb63 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > when we hold a Bardic competition for the Titled Bard of our Barony,
> > > is it limited to singing and story telling?
> >
> > Interpretive dance isn't *period*, darn it.
>
> Actually it is....
>
> They were called intermettzi, mimes, pantomime, or masques and there
> may have been other names for it, but basically it was a dance/
> theatre piece that involved music and possibly singing, but focused
> on the dancers telling a story and was very popular in European
> courts.

Hmmm ...  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretive_dance> suggests

    Interpretive dance is a family of dance styles that seeks to
    interpret the meaning inherent in music rather than by performing
    specific preformatted moves.

which looks to me like trying to device meaning from *music*, rather
than a story being supported by music and dance.  But
<http://www.onelook.com/?w=Interpretive+dance> has

     a form of modern dance in which the dancer's movements depict an
     emotion or tell a story

so it *might* be telling a story.

I suspect the best summary is from
<http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=490736>
(requires a fixed-width font):

    I'm going to put on my Puff the Magic Dragon record and do an
    interpretive dance about interpretive dance. I suggest you do the
    same.

     \0/   \0_   _0_   _0|  \/           Beyond vocabulary,
      |     |     |     |   |            beyond reason,
     /|     |\    |\   /|   |0  0-/-/    I ascii dance for life.

Danielis de Lindocollino
-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com