rennaissance dance and fencing event
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rmI am going to an event next Saturday, June 11 that I suspect will be of interest to some of you in the area, and if you can make it, would love to have you attend.
It's in New Haven and costs only $10 (and getting to New Haven is $25 RT on Metro North).
For that $10 you get:
Dance and fencing workshops from 12-6pm
You do not need any prior experience at either (and Renaissance dance is uniquely suited in some ways to non-dancers), although those with experience are welome.
Additionally, this is _not_ an SCA event, but SCA people are also very welcome.
Practice weapons will be available to those new to fencing and/or without gear.
Fencing details:
The fencing workshop will present the basic techniques of rapier combat as described in Giacomo di Grassi's Italian treatise of 1570, an English version of which was published in 1594. This material has been developed for classes at the Higgins Armory, and has not, to our knowledge, been taught in this way anywhere else. The two instructors, Patri J. Pugliese and Mark Millman, have been working with this material for several years and bring to it extensive experience in combat movement and in historical movement reconstruction. The class will focus on rapier and dagger, but will include some instruction in single rapier, rapier and cloak, rapier and buckler, and case of rapiers (i.e. two rapiers). Practice weapons will be available if you do not have your own.
Dancing details:
The dance workshop will briefly present the basic step repertoire for dances of late 16th-century Italy followed by a series of dances, drawing primarily on Caroso's 1581 manual, Il Ballarino as well as other sources possibly including Negri, Chigi, and the Firenze manuscript. Dances will be a mix of easy and more difficult, depending on the mix of attendees. The dance workshop will be taught by Susan de Guardiola.
Then we will have a dinner break (food on your own, but there's lots of cheap stuff in the area, and sometimes a group of us will order in pizzas) and from 8 - 11 there will be a Renaissance dance. Costume is utterly optional but appreciated. Period refreshments (some baked by me) will be served.
All the details are here: http://www.elegantarts.org/caroso/
Please, please come. It's very cheap, very fun, a great workout and a opportunity to learn from really great instructors in very small group sizes.
It's in New Haven and costs only $10 (and getting to New Haven is $25 RT on Metro North).
For that $10 you get:
Dance and fencing workshops from 12-6pm
You do not need any prior experience at either (and Renaissance dance is uniquely suited in some ways to non-dancers), although those with experience are welome.
Additionally, this is _not_ an SCA event, but SCA people are also very welcome.
Practice weapons will be available to those new to fencing and/or without gear.
Fencing details:
The fencing workshop will present the basic techniques of rapier combat as described in Giacomo di Grassi's Italian treatise of 1570, an English version of which was published in 1594. This material has been developed for classes at the Higgins Armory, and has not, to our knowledge, been taught in this way anywhere else. The two instructors, Patri J. Pugliese and Mark Millman, have been working with this material for several years and bring to it extensive experience in combat movement and in historical movement reconstruction. The class will focus on rapier and dagger, but will include some instruction in single rapier, rapier and cloak, rapier and buckler, and case of rapiers (i.e. two rapiers). Practice weapons will be available if you do not have your own.
Dancing details:
The dance workshop will briefly present the basic step repertoire for dances of late 16th-century Italy followed by a series of dances, drawing primarily on Caroso's 1581 manual, Il Ballarino as well as other sources possibly including Negri, Chigi, and the Firenze manuscript. Dances will be a mix of easy and more difficult, depending on the mix of attendees. The dance workshop will be taught by Susan de Guardiola.
Then we will have a dinner break (food on your own, but there's lots of cheap stuff in the area, and sometimes a group of us will order in pizzas) and from 8 - 11 there will be a Renaissance dance. Costume is utterly optional but appreciated. Period refreshments (some baked by me) will be served.
All the details are here: http://www.elegantarts.org/caroso/
Please, please come. It's very cheap, very fun, a great workout and a opportunity to learn from really great instructors in very small group sizes.
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Date: 2005-06-06 02:12 pm (UTC)It was just a funny blip to read your entry today because I went to college with Mark Millman. I didn't know him well, but it's nice to see he's still pursuing his avocation/vocation as he did in those days.
Enjoy your event!
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Date: 2005-06-06 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-06 11:50 pm (UTC)Susan in particular seems to be one of those nexus point people -- I know about three people who all know her peripherally from like totally different social circles.
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Date: 2005-06-07 03:27 pm (UTC)(If it comes up in conversation and she happens to ask, I'd be "Jenny from high school and Harvard." Not at all meaning to burden you with communiques from near-total strangers, of course.)
I'll go back to lurking now. Again, hope you have fun at the workshop.
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Date: 2005-06-07 09:44 am (UTC)Wacky.