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There's nothing like dancing for the soul.
I can be all stressed and twitchy, and after two hours longsword practice I'm at peace with the entire world.
Southern Star are only just large enough to survive as a side, but I think we're going to make it. We're a mixed ability bunch to say the least, but the dances are starting to flow. We're moving with the music now and that's making a big difference.
The timing in longsword has to be a bit intuitive -in morris, if you make a mistake, you just nip back into the correct position. That's not possible in longsword, you have to find ways for the group to get back in sync with the music. After a while, you realise that at least some of the moves in traditional longsword dances are designed to give a bit of catch up time. Moves that can be a bit variable in length are often followed by simple circle moves that can soak up time until a new phrase of the music begins.
I can be all stressed and twitchy, and after two hours longsword practice I'm at peace with the entire world.
Southern Star are only just large enough to survive as a side, but I think we're going to make it. We're a mixed ability bunch to say the least, but the dances are starting to flow. We're moving with the music now and that's making a big difference.
The timing in longsword has to be a bit intuitive -in morris, if you make a mistake, you just nip back into the correct position. That's not possible in longsword, you have to find ways for the group to get back in sync with the music. After a while, you realise that at least some of the moves in traditional longsword dances are designed to give a bit of catch up time. Moves that can be a bit variable in length are often followed by simple circle moves that can soak up time until a new phrase of the music begins.
