Spanish dance in the 16th and 17th centuries

[volcanohunter]

This concert by the Ensemble La Danserye features Spanish-style dance music of the 16th and 17th centuries, as imagined primarily by foreigners. In several pieces Diana Campóo, who reconstructed the choreography on the basis of dance manuals, and Jorge Vicedo perform the dances.

1. anonymous: La base danse du roy d'Espagne

5. Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro: La bassa Castiglia (Falla con misuras)

9. Fabritio Caroso: Balletto "Amor mio"

10. Michael Praetorius: Pavane de Spaigne

11. Praetorius: Galiarda

13. Fabritio Caroso and Cesare Negri: Il Canario

16. Praetorius: Spagnoletta

17. Andrea Falconieri: Folías hechas para mi señora doña Tarolilla de Carallenos

 

[Helene]

That was gorgeous!

[volcanohunter]

In this interview Diana Campóo describes the reconstruction of dances from centuries past on the basis of written sources. In Spanish with English subtitles. 

 

[Helene]

That was a great interview:  Campoo describes many of the same challenges that people who try to reconstruct Petipa ballets face, even with Stepanov being a professional and with much more scholarship, the advent of photography, the phonograph, and film, and performances of different arts genres from the 19th and early 20th century that are available for historical context.  Many of us alive today had great-grandparents and grandparents we knew who were adults in the early 20th century, people who could describe the social context.