Count | Steps |
The first movement of the music repeats three times. | |
1-12 | Start proper, holding hands, and do a Riverenza grave with the left foot. |
13-24 | Do two Continenze, first to the left and then to the right. |
1-12 | Do two Passi gravi and one Doppio presto, starting with the left foot. |
13-24 | Do two Passo backward, starting with the right foot, and then two Riprese to the right. |
25-48 | Repeat the sequence. |
Change to the second movement of the music for three repeats. | |
1-12 | Take right hands and do two Passi gravi and one Doppio to the left, starting with the left foot. |
13-24 | Take left hands and do two Passi gravi and one Doppio to the right, starting with the right foot. |
25-36 | Release hands and turn to the left with two Seguiti ordinarii; atthe end bend at the knees a little to perform a meza Riverenza. |
37-48 | Do two more Seguiti ordinarii turning to the right. |
1-48 | Same as the previous verse except take arms (up to the elbow) instead of hands when turning your partner. |
1-12 | Take both hands with your partner and do two Passi gravi and one Doppio presto to the left. |
13-24 | Do two Passi gravi and one Doppio presto back to the right. |
25-48 | Releasing hands, the lady turns as in the previous two verses, but the man will do four Seguiti flanked: two back and two forward. At the end, turn to stand proper and take hands. |
Change to the first movement of the music for two repeats. | |
1-48 | Walk forward together doing eight Seguiti ordinarii. |
Change to the second movement of the music for three repeats. | |
1-12 | Riverenza to your partner. |
13-24 | Do two Continenze gravi, left then right. |
25-48 | Turn to the left with two Seguiti ordinarii; then do two more Seguiti ordinarii turning to the right. |
1-12 | The man does two Passi gravi, and one Doppio presto forward, starting with the left foot: the lady will do the same backward, starting with the right foot; |
13-24 | The lady will do the same forward, and the man back. |
25-48 | Both do turns with Seguiti ordinarii as before. |
1-12 | The man alone will do the Riverenza with the left foot: |
13-24 | The lady alone will do the Riverenza with the left foot; |
25-48 | The lady will do the two said turns as before. The man will do four Seguiti ordinarii: 2 flanked back, and 2 forward. |
Riverenza |
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Contrapasso Video
Lord Lorenzo Petrucci made this video at the Kingdom Arts and Sciences event in June 2006, but Blogger only recently made it easy to put up here.
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