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<div>We usually use the words '''Renaissance Dance''' to describe dance done in the SCA,<br />
rather than [[Medieval Dance]]. This is because we don't know very much about<br />
[[Medieval Dance]] at all. Although dance as an art form was well known in the [[middle ages]], the first recorded dance instructions and [[choreography]] date from the middle of the [[15th century]].<br />
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There are many pictures depicting dancing in earlier times, but without any [[choreography]] or more than a vague idea of how these dances went, it is impossible to recreate them.<br />
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The earliest Renaissance Dances were those done in [[Burgundy]] and [[Italy]] in<br />
the mid [[15th century]] to the early [[16th century]]. These included [[basse danses]] (bassa danze) and [[balli]].<br />
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Early Italian dancemasters include [[Domenico da Piacenza]] and his students [[Antonio Cornazano]] and [[Guglielmo Ebreo]] (Guglielmo the [[Jew]]).<br />
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Later renaissance dance became both more complex eg: [[16th Century Italian Dance]] and more simple, eg: [[16th Century French Dance]].<br />
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Dance masters of the late [[16th century]] include the Italians [[Fabritio Caroso]] and [[Cesare Negri]] as well as the frenchmen [[Thoinot Arbeau]] and [[Antoine Arena]].<br />
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==Dance Styles==<br />
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*[[Basse Dance]]<br />
*[[Pavanne]] <br />
*[[Galliard]]/[[Tourdion]] <br />
*[http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/allemandes.html Allemande]<br />
*[http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/bransles.html Bransle]<br />
*[[Country Dance]]<br />
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==Dance Sources==<br />
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*[http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/gresley.html Gresley Manuscript]<br />
*[http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/il_papa.html Il Papa]<br />
*[[Inns of Court Dances]]<br />
*[[Orchesography]]<br />
*[[Playford's Dancing Master]]<br />
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==Dance Music==<br />
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*[[modern music for medieval dance| modern music (and some stuff that you might not know is medieval) that you can do medieval dances to]]<br />
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==Dance practices==<br />
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* [[Melbourne]] / [[Barony of Stormhold]]: 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, contact Adina Hamilton (get contact details from [[Stormscroll]]).<br />
* [[Melbourne]] / [[Shire of Krae Glas]]: Friday evenings, seasonal. Contact [[College of St Monica]] for details.<br />
* [[Sydney]] / [[Barony of Rowany]]: Alternate Fridays, 7pm, Glebe Primary School (address in [[Folia Roani]]).<br />
* [[Newcastle]] / [[Barony of Mordenvale]]: Alternate Mondays, 6:30pm. University of Newcastle. Contact: ???<br />
* Pittsburgh, PA, USA / [[Barony of the Debatable Lands|Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands]]: Every Thursday, 8pm. Carnegie-Mellon University. Details [http://dance.eclecsia.org/ here].<br />
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==Some good links==<br />
* [http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/ Del's Dance Book]<br />
* [[Guild of the Silver Rondel]]'s site - http://www.sca.org.au/rondel/<br />
* [http://www.rendance.org/ The Rendance web site]<br />
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[[Category:dance]]</div>Caiorllyn