[SCA-Dance] Re: pennsicdance: Period dance and modern music

[Tibicen]

Alina wrote --

> As the person who taught the Twirling to Twisted Tunes class at Pennsic, I
> feel obliged to respond. 

[snip]

> Some of the reasons that this perversion of period dance was so
> enjoyable was that it gave a really different feel to the dances,
> and made it far more obvious that differences in the styling of the
> music should affect how one performs a dance.  It was also necessary
> to know the dance really well in order to master doing it to
> completely unrelated music.  (Of course, one can also achieve this
> effect by dancing a period dance to a different period tune.)
> Doing a dance differently also gave me a new appreciation for the
> dance as it is done traditionally - it forced me to take a new look
> at it.

I think these are superb reasons, and this is a worthy class.

Would it be too difficult to hold the class out in the Loud Tent,
which has only grass, not a floor?  The whole purpose of the Loud Tent
is specifically to provide accoustic insulation for shawms and such
like noxious noises. ;)

-- Tibicen