Two Renaissance Dances played on Early Instruments.

Phil playing kortholt, crumhorn, recorders, lute and tabor.

Dancing was a favourite pastime in the Renaissance. Dancing was an elegant form of exercise and an expected social skill for the noble. There were basically two types of social dances in the Renaissance. The first type were simple dances that were performed by an unlimited number of people. These dances were usually performed in circles or lines. The second type were more complex dances that required a dancing master and practice. These complex dances were usually performed for an audience. The important part of the 16th century dance was the footwork. The bulky clothing of the Renaisssance limited the upper body movement, both in men and women. Women wore corsets at this time, and the men's clothing had tight lacing on the upper body.
The Renaissance produced three improtant dance masters who wrote a treatises on dancing: Thoinot Arbeau, Cesare Negri, and Fabritio Caroso. All three wrote detailed explanations of the different kinds of dances and how they were to be performed. All three treatises describe similar dances and steps, which shows that the court dances throughout Europe at that time were international.
Dancing in the Renaissance also brought about some new instrumental compositions written primarily for dancing. The dance music of the Renaissance was written for instruments such as the sackbutt, lute, viol, pipe and the tabor.Some of the music was still improvised, but a good portion of the dance pieces were published in collections by Pierre Attaingnant.

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[artemissalena]

I can't believe how formal the dance is compared to today's Cheers for posting this^^

[speardock]

My pleasure

Regards

Phil

[cocolovestwilight]

Is this a renaissance country, or court dance?

[speardock]

It is a court dance as far as I know.

Regards

Phil

[velvetsnape]

Those Elizabethans really knew how to party. Jokes aside, loved this.

[speardock]

Glad you enjoyed my old recording.

Regards

Phil

[logovora]

Would be lovely to see this done with the appropriate historical costume.

[ooerme]

looks like fun!

[foliasaluso]

@artemissalena Actually the dancers are doing an educational demo of the steps for a pavane, complete with conversion - a processional dance (think bride going down the aisle and the like). That part is from one of the videos published by the American Library of Congress. Some dances were formal, some were flirty or downright silly (miming dances, for example).