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research time!
Spent a merry afternoon in the Ralph Vaughan Williams memorial library at the English Folk Dance and Song Society; the secret sounce of all my power, and as ever they came up with the goods.
The goods, in this case, being:
1) the comforting realisation that NOBODY knows anything about the dark ages,
2) some info on a weird dance done with Reindeer horns and
3) the most amazing piece of film. It was of the Mayday festival in a little Cornish town, shot in the 40s sometime, and there was some footage of two young guys in a packed pub doing this really raw, wild looking dance (with exciting homoerotic undertones
) This is a dance so old that it could well be pre-dark ages, and it's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for for my barbarian dance for King Arthur. Joy is me!
research time!Spent a merry afternoon in the Ralph Vaughan Williams memorial library at the English Folk Dance and Song Society; the secret sounce of all my power, and as ever they came up with the goods.
The goods, in this case, being:
1) the comforting realisation that NOBODY knows anything about the dark ages,
2) some info on a weird dance done with Reindeer horns and
3) the most amazing piece of film. It was of the Mayday festival in a little Cornish town, shot in the 40s sometime, and there was some footage of two young guys in a packed pub doing this really raw, wild looking dance (with exciting homoerotic undertones
) This is a dance so old that it could well be pre-dark ages, and it's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for for my barbarian dance for King Arthur. Joy is me!VIEW 9 of 9 COMMENTS
Flat is nice, the town is good (though grey) and everything else is generally going my way. Which is rather wonderful. I'm yet to check out that pastie shop yet - I generally shy away from anything remotely vegetable in its make-up, as I'm something of a confirmed carnivore.
How's things anyway, dear? Everything going well?