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[personal profile] hudebnik 2019-06-18 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
I did notice the lift, but was far enough away (second row balcony, whence we could see floor patterns well) that I couldn't see exactly where they were lifting from. I did wonder whether they were going to do La Volta at any point, and was disappointed that they didn't. I noticed that the galliards were made up of plausible steps, but weren't necessarily the same on each side. And there was some line dance in which I commented to [personal profile] shalmestere "It's like a catalogue of every possible way to progress, done once each." And I was sorta wondering about the Ballo del Fiore thing.

I know of two period sources for the Rosti Boli tune, both monophonic (one in Ebreo or Domenico, I forget which, and the other in the Burgundian basse-dance repertoire), but the "arrangement" was in line with what we know about 15th-century ornamentation practices, and in line with lots of recordings by professional groups that have done more research than I have. I didn't have a problem with it. It was one 15th-century dance in an otherwise 16th-century show, in 16tth-century clothes, but one can imagine 16th-century courtiers occasionally doing an out-of-date dance because the King's mother likes it. Of course, they didn't do anything that looked like Caroso or Negri, either, more Arbeau. (I'm not familiar enough with 16th-century costume to know when in the 16th century they were aiming for.)
Edited 2019-06-18 11:13 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hudebnik 2019-06-19 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
That explains a lot.

They seem to be saying "all the dances have been choreographed anew" with pride rather than apology. It could be that they wanted to give the choreographer something to do, and felt that analyzing and synthesizing multiple conflicting musical and choreographic sources was insufficiently creative.
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[personal profile] matildalucet 2019-06-21 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
A pity, because he is a good dancer and has a brain. (I saw him at "Comic Italian dancing in the time of Handel and Rameau". Which referred to research he and Gloria Giordano had done, which he could speak about convincingly. I've known good dancers with less brain.) I wonder what would happen if you wrote to him.