Re: playing in period societies? Re: [h-cost] why renaissance...

2005-09-26 Thread Kahlara
/whatis/ and a list of links to Contra Dance groups from all over the world. http://www.contradancelinks.com/ Annette M -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:24:42 -0700 From: Kimiko Small Subject: Re: playing in period societies? Re: [h-cost] why

Re: playing in period societies? Re: [h-cost] why renaissance...

2005-09-26 Thread Lavolta Press
English country dance is an even better place to meet people with historical interests. There are many branches of the Country Dance and Song Society in the US. Their website is: http://www.cdss.org/ Despite being a historically inauthentic revival, English country dance is easy, fun, full

Re: playing in period societies? Re: [h-cost] why renaissance and not 18th century?

2005-09-25 Thread Kimiko Small
At 11:26 AM 9/22/2005, you wrote: Or, if not, if there's a group that focuses on the Irish/Celtic/Welsh (I think they are all different and distinct groups) history, language and costuming, I'd also love to know about them, too. Elena/Gia I don't know about your area, but in my area we

playing in period societies? Re: [h-cost] why renaissance and not 18th century?

2005-09-22 Thread elena_o_tighearnaigh
Personally, I play in the SCA because I can dress up alot... What I'd prefer to do is to play dress up for several periods, and (I'm sorry) for brevity let's just say from 1650 through 1900. I love each of the different fashions that evolved and exploring each development and their fabrics,