Most of the blog is going to be about what I have seen in the SCA. Even when I first started going to the SCA, I was exposed to the combination of dance and music. I only started dancing the courting dances of pre-1600 Europe in the last year. My stepfather, Dave, is the only one in the local area that will teach them. We usually use a cassette player for the music, but there is the wonderful and rare occation that we have a live performer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC1at92jfvo this is a popular dance we do. This group is not us and they do not play the music very loud, but I have put the idea to video tape our group forward. Hopefully before too long, I will have dance cheat sheets and a few of the cd's.
The woman to your left is Baroness Delia the Flammable. She is my main teacher when it comes to belly dancing. I sort of get taught by which ever woman is standing the closest to me, but that is another story.
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The best part of an event can often be when everyone settles around the fire and the drums start going. It is a familiar dum dum teka teka dum teka tek... with the jingling hip scarves of the experianced dancers. The problem with the dancers like me is our jingles do not sound just right yet. The way we learn the moves is by the sound the scarf makes.
Since I started getting more interested in the Japanese culture I have found a most interesting way to show sword form. The dance Oni-Ken-Bai is a sword and fan dance (that I should really get around to learning). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5emNyKSiup4 The music in this link is actually loud enough to hear.
Does anyone else find the dance... similar to something they have seen before?
This last link is just for fun-It is our local SCA group doing a modern comedy version of how belly dancing came to the world. It is hard to hear so if you find me later I'll tell you what was going on. The two "babes" he grabs from the audience... yeah... one of them is me... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84wSRt2EvtU
-Lynn
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