Letter of Dance - Volume 6 (Issues 41-48)

Chapter 1: Fifteenth Century Italy

• A Fifteenth Century Trenchmore, Judith of Northumbria
• The Six Principle Elements of Dance According to Guglielmo, Lyev Davidovitch

Chapter 2: Sixteenth Century

• An Excursion into 16th Century Courtly Entertainment, Mara Kolarova
• The Buffens for Six; Justin du Coeur, Myndroh Hibernius, and the Carolingian Buffens Team
• Why Horse's Branle Gives Dancemasters Headaches, Lyev Davidovich
• A Quick Guide to Steps in Arbeau's Orchesography (1596), Lyev Davidovitch

Chapter 3: England

• Squires Chase: An Experimental Interpretation of Some Common English Country Dance Terms, Michaela de La Chesnaye des Bois
• New Boe Peep, Katriana

Chapter 4: Other

• Dancing in Period Attire, Elin the Timid and Philip White
• How do I have to Shimmy to Get Some Respect Around Here, Tahira bint Ibrahim al-Ishbiliyya
• Review: Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918, selections, Katherine Mercer
• Excerpt from the Academy of Armory, Justin du Coeur
• Medieval and Renaissance Irish Dancing, Scott MacTiere
• Dance Any Choreography to Any Piece of Music, Lyev Davidovitch
• Reconstructing Dance, by Philip White/Craig Shupee'

Chapter 5: Dance in the Current Middle Ages

• Ballet de Cour: Recreating Greek Theater in the Renaissance, or What we Did in Carolingia on February 9th, 2002, Jennifer Kobayashi/Mistress Gwendolyn of Middlemarch
• Some Thoughts on Attending a Professional Dance Workshop, Katherine Mercer
• Review: Renaissonics and The Bones of All Men, Urraca Yriarte de Gamboa
• A Letter, Alina of Foxwood
• An Event Review, Katherine Mercer
• Review: The Dragon Scale Consort, Katherine Mercer
• Review: Three CDs by Wolgemut, Katherine Mercer
• Letter (Concerning not teaching GOOP dances), Tibicen.
• Review: Silence is Deadly by the Waits of Southwark, Katherine Mercer
• How to Record a Music CD for SCA Dance, or, What I wish we knew when we started Musica Subterranea, Sophia the Orange
• Review: Eschewynge of Ydleness: Music for Dancing from the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Misericordia & Gaita, Urraca Yriarte de Gamboa/Mary Peralta Railing

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