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Canario (Negri): First mutanza for a man

Source: 
Negri, Le Gratie d'Amore (1602)
Dance Type: 
improvisatory
Number of dancers: 
As many as will
About this choreography: 
Katherine Davies, December 2010
Choreography: 

9-16turning passeggio (B)

172 passi, cadenza

 

ADVANCING MUTANZA

 

1-2Four stamped steps forwards, LRLR*

3two stamps, LL, turning the left flank forwards; 1st - knee high, 2nd - behind

4two stamps, RR, turning the right flank forwards; 1st - knee high, 2nd - behind


5-62 seguiti battuti LL, left flank forwards

7ripresa minuita L “  “

8seguito battuto L “   “

 

- repeat on right side -

1-2Four stamped steps forwards, RLRL

3two stamps, RR, turning the right flank forwards; 1st - knee high, 2nd - behind

4two stamps, LL, turning the left flank forwards; 1st - knee high, 2nd - behind


5-62 seguiti battuti RR, right flank forwards

7ripresa minuita R “  “

8seguito battuto R



RITIRATA

 

1stamp backwards onto the left foot, as first move in ripresa minuta (heels together)

2-4rest of ripresa minuta, L, flankingly backwards (3 movements: toes, heels, toes)

 

- repeat on right -

5stamp backwards onto the left foot, as first move in ripresa minuta (heels together)

6-8rest of ripresa minuta, L, flankingly backwards (3 movements: toes, heels, toes)

 

then:

9-102 slow stamped steps backwards, LR

11-123 faster stamped steps backwards, LRL

 

- repeat on right -

13-142 slow stamped steps backwards, RL

15-163 faster stamped steps backwards, RLR

17 pause

 

1-8turning passeggio (A)

-8-riverenza

 

Music: 

This takes two repetitions of Negri's canario music: one for the advance and one for the retreat.

About this translation: 

Katherine Davies, Decemember 2010

Translation: 

The gentleman does the turning passage, as above, and then with the left foot four beats going forwards, and turning that flank one high from the ground and the other beating the stamp with the middle of the left foot at the heel of the right foot, and these two beats they will do another time with that foot, and then two seguiti battuti and one ripresa minuta and one seguito battuto and all this mutanza is done with the left foot, and then another time with the right, and that is done turning the right flank. Then he does the ritirata beating the left foot behind the with a ripresa doppia minuta he does the same with the right foot flankingly then he will do five passi stamping backwards, two slow, and the other three fast, with the left, and with the right, it is done another time with the right foot returning to his place, and he then does the turning passage to the left and together the riverenza.

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