Term 3 Class 1

An excellent start to the term, and best of all, two new dancers (hello! you dance very well!).

In the first hour we danced:

• Branles - circle dances
• Scots branles (or "Branles de l'Escosse")
• Washerwomen's branle (or "Branle des Lavandieres")
• Pinagay
• Old Measures - stately dances for couples in a column
• Lorrayne Almain
• Black Almain
• 15th Century Italian dances
• Petit Riens (follow-the-leader dance for three people in a line)
• Anello (for four people in a square)
• Jenny Pluck Pears (an English Country Dance, from the 17th century, for 3 couples in a circle)

In the second hour, as did several more challenging dances, as usual:

• Lioncello Vecchio - a 15th century Italian dance for a couple
• La Figlia di Guglielmino - a complex 15th century Italian dance for a couple, with many timing-changes
• Heart's Ease - a simple 17thC English Country Dance ... but with the tempo varying constantly as we danced

As always, I'm looking forward to next week, and to the rest of the term.