Dancers and Prancers unite!

[[Shall.We.Blaspheme]]

Dancing is a jolly good affair.

However, spinning provides difficulty when ones persona is Scottish, and kilts are involved.  

[north_of_nita]

Im going to start taking belly dancing this year, hopfully Ill be able to dance at the next event I go to. I know there will be danceing there I just hope I can move properly and get the right garb to belly dance.  

[kitsunelady]

I love to dance! I've even taught dance at an event once! It was hard but fun. We have dance twice a month at my local meeting, and I always go on those days! I adore dance! It's all about the Korbushka, Heralds in Love, and Rufty Tufty/Hearts Ease!!!

Eleanora de Montgomeri
aka Kit  

[Dea Mariella]

squire to fools

My favorite dance is the Koracushka*


*I can spell it this way because in-period uniformity of spelling had not yet developed. Well past the Elizabethan period, people still spelled things however it best suited them

way to be...i heart that dance so much...i teach it to helpless mundanes on the street if i have the theme stuck in my head (*evil grin)

Dea-chan  

[Dea Mariella]

i have to say, being both musician and dancer leads to interesting conflicts...for example, i love hole in the wall and [damnit...what's that dance to scotland the brave? something across water....] but these fun dances are brutal for musicians! not to mention korubushka as well...which i never lose at! biggrin no matter what side i'm on!

ok...brag fest over

Dea-chan  

[KariudoMegami]

[Atropa Belladonna]

Heart's Ease and the Korabushka are my favorites. A friend of mine gets all excited because the Korabushka is done to the tetris theme song.

Posties is great too, but I can never remember the whole thing. I get lost.

Has anyone danced the Brawl Official or "Toss the Duchess"? Great fun!

That's one of my favorites!! heart Right now my group is doing alot of the later Italian dances, and they're really fun -although they're also really challenging!-

I just learned Grimstock recently, does anyone else like that dance? -I mean, how can you not? heart ...Unless you really, really hate haying. In which case I could definetly see hating it.-  

[Nerienda]

Ooooh, late-Italian dances! Yay! I'm only getting into them as well (Contentezza d'Amore, Contrapasso Nuovo, Lo Spagnoletto), and they're a great challenge.

Hearts Ease, Grimstock, Bransle Officiale, are all a lot of fun to dance as well! So is Korobushka; we just don't talk too much about it being so post-period... wink  

[KariudoMegami]

Yes, they are very fun! whee We've been doing the Contentezza d'Amore, as well as Pizzeria d'Amore -not quite sure on the spelling on that. Or most of the ones in other languages, as I don't often see them written, but mostly hear them spoken!-

We recently did Canarios, and I just couldn't get the hang of them! (The only Canario music we have is really, really fast.) The teacher of our group has been saying that we're going to learn Spagnoletto soon. And Ooooh, but I want so very badly to learn Buffins!!! whee xd

Hehe, I don't know about other groups, but mine calls both Tufty-Tufty and Hearts Ease, 'The Syke game dances'. blaugh  

[Isildo]

That made me laugh.

I love English Country dances, cause they're all the same but all different. Whirligig and Heralds in Love are just too much fun. rofl  

[Nerienda]

English Country dances are lots of fun, though it's rare whe we have enough of us together to do any of the four-couple dances (like Hyde Park and Goddesses), or the "as many as will" (like New Bo Peep and Female Sailor). Our local group's next event has a dance scheduled; I can't wait! whee  

[Dragostae]

That was entertaining. Not gonna lie.  

[Berzerker_prime]

Oh, I adore dances! Like a lot of Northshielders, I like the Black Alman a lot, but Toss-the-Wench, Horses' Bransle, and Heralds in Love all hold special places in my heart.

Oh! Any of you up in the Principality of Avacal who run into my household sister and brother, Heregyth Kettilsdottir and her lord Heinrich (whose last name, I'm ashamed to admit, is escaping me at the moment), should ask them about the "Heinrich Maneuver." mrgreen

Sarah T. Foole.  

[Sayfia]

My barony hosts a dance event every year, and you can find dance "cheat sheets" here http://downloads.cynnabar.org/

Hope this helps somebody!