A rather dispirited performance of one of the livelier, and more unusual, dances from the High Renaissance by two ill-matched dancers in anachronistic costumes that impede doing the lifts correctly, the main impulse for which is the man's right thigh under the lady's bum!
Also the costumes are all wrong - they look as though from Henry VIII's court but La Volta was barely known until after his death and even then not in England. Surprised at BM.
Here's a good more enthusiastic performance of La Volta. The costumes aren't too active but the performance is quite lively. ua-cam.com/video/uHWlfte2YiY/v-deo.html
La Volta was Queen Elizabeth's favorite dance in the 1500s, as referenced by Jasper Ridley's book Elizabeth I, The Shrewdness of Virtue (published 1989).
Nice to see the dance being performed in the British Museum. We can watch with a certain sense of assurance that this was indeed how the dance was performed. Good work!
Hardly. A rather dispirited performance of one of the livelier, and more unusual, dances from the High Renaissance by two ill-matched dancers in anachronistic costumes that impede doing the lifts correctly, the main impulse for which is the man's right thigh under the lady's bum!
LOL! There is much nonsense in this performance, but it is not the music, which is from the period, not the movie!. Further, snare drums were used in the period. For a live performance of La Volta, listen here: ua-cam.com/video/d5Vl8o8f0dQ/v-deo.html For reproductions of historical drums, visit here: www.harmsperc.com/tabor.htm
Take a look at actual Renaissance times ladies and think again. It's not a theatrical dance where only the special trained ones do perform, it's a social dance for real people, whose main living purpose wasn't dance. This times beauty standart actually prefers her body shape, not the modern slender one. These dancers are just not performing the lift in the right way. Period manuals told that a man should also use his leg while lifting a lady, and this sir didn't. This is the mistake. Period accurate technique of the lift actually works for period accurate women.
A rather dispirited performance of one of the livelier, and more
unusual, dances from the High Renaissance by two ill-matched dancers in
anachronistic costumes that impede doing the lifts correctly, the main
impulse for which is the man's right thigh under the lady's bum!
Also the costumes are all wrong - they look as though from Henry VIII's court but La Volta was barely known until after his death and even then not in England. Surprised at BM.
Here's a good more enthusiastic performance of La Volta. The costumes aren't too active but the performance is quite lively. ua-cam.com/video/uHWlfte2YiY/v-deo.html
@@Oceananswer : The version referenced is livelier, true, but not much more accurate and the video quality is awful.
La Volta was Queen Elizabeth's favorite dance in the 1500s, as referenced by Jasper Ridley's book Elizabeth I, The Shrewdness of Virtue (published 1989).
@@editostrom7432these are not Elizabethan outfits shown in the video. The outfits are a poorly fitting version of the henrician court
Dear young girls ....your trip to Ibiza is cancelled !!! In replacement you are cordially invited to attend a work shop of Volta.
Nice to see the dance being performed in the British Museum. We can watch with a certain sense of assurance that this was indeed how the dance was performed. Good work!
Hardly. A rather dispirited performance of one of the livelier, and more unusual, dances from the High Renaissance by two ill-matched dancers in anachronistic costumes that impede doing the lifts correctly, the main impulse for which is the man's right thigh under the lady's bum!
Yeah I doubt ladies were kicked in the butt to make them volta. It was hard to watch.
Wrong wrong wrong 😂 costumes are anachronistic and the dancing was just plain wrong
This is nonsense. This music was written and recorded for the movie Elizabeth, they didn't use snare drums in real 16th Century volta.
That's right but it sounds beautiful too.
LOL! There is much nonsense in this performance, but it is not the music, which is from the period, not the movie!. Further, snare drums were used in the period.
For a live performance of La Volta, listen here:
ua-cam.com/video/d5Vl8o8f0dQ/v-deo.html
For reproductions of historical drums, visit here:
www.harmsperc.com/tabor.htm
This music is by Tielmann Susato's for one of his dance books in the 1560s.
they dance so gracious as cows on ice
Tanečnica je obézna, tanečník ju nedokáže zodvihnúť vysoko ako sa to pri volte má robi🤦♀️🤦♂️
Take a look at actual Renaissance times ladies and think again. It's not a theatrical dance where only the special trained ones do perform, it's a social dance for real people, whose main living purpose wasn't dance. This times beauty standart actually prefers her body shape, not the modern slender one. These dancers are just not performing the lift in the right way. Period manuals told that a man should also use his leg while lifting a lady, and this sir didn't. This is the mistake. Period accurate technique of the lift actually works for period accurate women.