Present: Caterine, William, Ludwig (Canary only), Katherina
Warmup: Black Almain
Revision
New Material (for this year, anyway)
Present: William, Ludwig, Katherina
Warmup: Rostiboli Gioioso for three (with two men and one woman, for a change)
Revision
New Material
A most productive afternoon: Elisabeth made most of a blue kirtle, Catalina has nearly finished her corset and cut out a farthingale, Caterine's Turkish is looking splendid, Karen's first pieces of tablet-weaving are gorgeous, and she's cut out a 16thC high-necked chemise. As usual, William and Katherina plotted.
Present: William, Anna, Katherina
Warm-up: Rostiboli Gioioso for three
Learned the whole of the man's 4th mutanza, on both sides (verses 11 and 12). Katherina practiced the woman's 4th mutanza, but didn't teach it.
Our first advanced-dancing session for the summer!
Present: Katherina, Anna, William, Caterine
Warm up: Pungente Dardo, Amoroso
Revision
Regular dance classes have finished for the year, and will re-start in February, but we're still dancing!
Our last class of 2010, and we have a lovely session, with both familiar faces and some new ones. Please come back next year!
We got through:
(all 16th century French branles, from the manual "Orchesography")
(all balli from 15th century Italian manuscripts)
(a variation on the galliard, in which the woman leaps, and the man spins her, while helping her to leap even higher)
Still Meyer rapier, of course:
2.77r: / Forgeng p197:"How you shall change through and thrust to the other side against an opponent who strikes out your first thrust"
2.77v: "How you shall pull back the thrust as if you intended to thrust in elsewhere, and just as he will parry it, thrust back in where you had first threatened the thrust"
[skipped "how you shall counterthrust at the same time as he cuts"]
2.78r / Forgeng p198: "How you shall catch your opponent's cuts and thrusts, and countercut"
On the Sunday of Saint Catherine's, we had a picnic in Cornwall Park, and a tournament to select our new Baronial Fencing Champion. Eleanor Hall arranged the tournament, with assistance from Don William de Cameron, last year's champion.
We had five combatants:
I tried a new format for the Ball at St Catherine's this year: dancing by request, requests in strict Order of Precedence. There are some records of renaissance festivities where the guests chose dances in order of rank like this, though they seem to have been even more formal.
