From: sherman@trln.lib.unc.EDU ("Dennis R. Sherman")
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: dance videos
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:48:24 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Greetings to the Rialto from Robyyan.

Bjalfi Thordharson responds to the suggestion of making dance videos:

>You betcha!  (I may not be the first, and I sure won't be the last.)
>In principle, it sounds like a good idea.  I can see a bunch of dance
>mavens having fun with it, too.  But there are problems.

Sure are -- lots of problems.  Bjalfi's list of them is a good one.  
But why should we duplicate effort?  Since Vashti mentioned a 
facsimile of IL BALLARINO, I've been hunting around a bit, and ran 
across the following at MELVYL.  (That's the University of California 
combined libraries online catalog, available via TELNET at 
melvyl.ucop.edu -- a great place to research)

1. VIDEORECORDING
Title:         Il Ballarino : 16th century step vocabulary and dances /
                 interpreted, produced by Julia Sutton ; directed by Julia
                 Sutton & Johannes Holub. Pennington, NJ : Dance Horizons
                 Video, 1991, c1990.
Description:   1 videocassette (33 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Notes:         VHS format.
               Title on cassette: Il ballarino (The dancing master) : the art
                 of renaissance dance.
               Title on container: Il ballarino : the art of renaissance dance.
               Credits:  Reconstruction of steps and dances, Julia Sutton.
               Performers:  Julia Sutton.
               Performers:  Featured dancers, Patricia Rader, Charles Perrier.
               Performers:  Musicians, Tom Zajac (recorder, flute, percussion),
                 Grant Herreid (lute), Karen Hansen (violin), Paul Shipper
                 (plucked instruments)
               Italian Renaissance court dances and the gestures and step
                 vocabulary associated with them are demonstrated by dancers in
                 period costume and described by dance historian and
                 musicologist Julia Sutton from dance manuals of the 16th
                 century Italian masters Fabritio Caroso and Cesare Negri.

Subjects:      Caroso, Fabritio.
               Negri, Cesare, b. 1536?
               Dancing -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
               Dancing -- History -- 16th century.
               Choreography -- History -- 16th century.
               Choreographers -- Italy.
               Renaissance -- Italy.

Other entries: Sutton, Julia.
               Caroso, Fabritio.
               Negri, Cesare, b. 1536?
               Holub, Johannes.
               Dance Horizons Video (Firm)
               Il ballarino, the art of renaissance dance.
               The art of renaissance dance.
               The dancing master.

Anyone have a phone number handy for Dance Horizons that can find out 
what this tape costs?  Might give us an idea what we're looking at if 
someone actually attempts this in the SCA.

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* Robyyan Torr d'Elandris  Kapellenberg, Windmaster's Hill  Atlantia *
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* Dennis R. Sherman  	         Triangle Research Libraries Network *
* dennis_sherman@unc.edu       Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill *
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