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« Reply #1 on: 19:12:10, 11-11-2007 » |
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Won't Janine Jansen be getting jealous, then, Byron?
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #2 on: 20:07:57, 11-11-2007 » |
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Hmmm, one man dancing with three women. I guess that looks great - if you're a man.   I've tried a bit of baroque dance. It's great fun, but is a lot harder than it looks. |
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« Reply #3 on: 20:12:36, 11-11-2007 » |
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So's playing the violin! (Harder than it looks, I mean...)
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« Reply #4 on: 20:21:25, 11-11-2007 » |
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But not the chalumeau?
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« Reply #5 on: 20:27:56, 11-11-2007 » |
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You know, I've never seen anyone playing one! Well, Peter van der Poel, Guntram Wolf and Andreas Schöni. But that was just in their respective workshops so I don't know if that counts. And, er, that looked pretty hard for them but that's fine, their job is making them... |
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« Reply #6 on: 20:42:54, 11-11-2007 » |
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I'm always amazed by instrument makers who don't/can't play the instruments they make. But maybe they're equally amazed by players who know very little about the physical construction of their own instruments...
But we seem to be hijacking m'lud's thread about cooool baroque dancing. There are early dance classes around London, m'lud, that probably have a higher proportion of women than men... but you have to be willing to look like an idiot. You could learn a lot, though. I had no idea until I danced a menuet (badly) that it's arranged in six beats with no downbeat on the second bar. Very enlightening.
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« Reply #8 on: 11:00:29, 12-11-2007 » |
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Won't Janine Jansen be getting jealous, then, Byron?
jealous of me going to see some early dance with a few friends while she flying around the world working ? |
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« Reply #9 on: 14:22:05, 12-11-2007 » |
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jealous of me going to see some early dance with a few friends while she flying around the world working ?
As Kitty mentions above, Orchesographie (1589) is charmingly frank on this subject... the author mentions that the underlying social need for dancing is so that the young men can weigh-up the physical well-being of potential amours and future brides, "that she be whole, and with hips capable of childbirth" Imagine if Janine caught you with a tape-measure around someone's hips during a Gaillard... well, the inference would be hard to deny, eh? |
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« Reply #10 on: 14:41:56, 12-11-2007 » |
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I better check her diary,ensure she is far away that night eh !
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« Reply #11 on: 15:41:06, 12-11-2007 » |
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And don't let anybody catch you on-camera copping a feel while dancing the La Volta in an unseemly manner !
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #12 on: 16:41:54, 12-11-2007 » |
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My sneaky plan involves watching the performance while sitting with friends, drinking at the pub before and at the bar with them and then......................... going home !
cackle cackle !
i am wicked beyond belief !
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