The Gamester Tieth Hith Tongue in Knoths

[jducoeur]

Last night's interesting project was teaching some easy games to the Elizabethan English group, at the request of madamebuttery. The teaching was easy (I was deliberately teaching just straightforward gambling games); the language less so. It was a little disconcerting, since I have *written* a fair amount of period English in The Ace's Boke. But coming up with the right words at speaking speed proves much harder for me. I didn't even attempt an appropriate accent -- I think my head would have exploded. Something to play with and practice a bit.

Dance practice was more straightforward. I finally got around to reintroducing Alta Regina: as ladysprite had pointed out to me, that's really one of the easier dances in the 16th c. Italian repertoire, and pretty much all of dance practice seemed to be more or less getting it. I should work that one a bit over the next few weeks: it's a good combination of bouncy, fun and not too hard, so it might stick...

Comments

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

Do you think you might want Alta Regina on the fourth? The Waytes have not played it recently but there is certainly enough time between now and then to find our copies and run through it again.

[jducoeur]

Probably, but I'm not sure what you mean by "on the fourth"...

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

June 4? Also (by my count) the last official practice before summer break.

The difficulty with Alta Regina for me was the spinny factor. Definitely not safe for those prone to dizziness.

[jducoeur]

Ah, right -- I've been thinking of it so much as the last of the season, it hadn't even occurred to me that it was a first week. Yeah, if you can do it, that would be great.

And yeah, the spinniness is significant. It's definitely a non-Davey dance...

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

Isn't June 4th the next live music night?

[jducoeur]

Oh, right -- entirely forgot about that. Yes, it would be great to have...