Dancing workshop by Mari Voipio

Images of food and feasting

• http://www.godecookery.com/afeast/feasts/feasts.html

Images of dance and dancing

• http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/arbeau_inline.html
• http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/caroso/all_images.html

Dance instruction

• Bransles (circle dances)
• Petit Vriens, the three-person 'running' dance
• Lorayne Almain, the first of the English dances (I taught part B slightly differently, but this works, too)

Music

Our ensemble, La Primavera:

• http://www.la-primavera.nl/

Helsinki Early Music Society has some dance music on its website:

• http://www.cmah.org/Eng/recordings.html

This is the combo to which I'm used to dancing (I use these gagliardas to practice with). The instrumentation for the dances is slightly older in style than La Primavera's.

Costume

The paintings that inspired my Italian dress, by Domenico Ghirlandaio:

(note the maid in the background; that's how I look when working in this dress)

Additional information

• http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/
• http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rowen/renbk/rendressbook.html
• http://ilaria.veltri.tripod.com/italiandress.html
• http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/library/drawers.htm - this text is on Renaissance women's underpants; Figure B is the one of a courtesan that I mentioned (it is actually a really modern "cut-through" figure where some of the skirt hasn't been drawn so one can see underneath)