Takes me back to my university years, when I danced this with the Renaissance Dance club!

If my future husband doesnt do this dance with me, he aint my husband anymore

Love the shameless and indecent part when the lady is... letting her ankles be seen by everybody!

@nocomment2468

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, I’m not sure how ankles were regarded in the Renaissance era

@sosborne9060

2 жыл бұрын

Ankles were fine in the Renaissance, it was knees that was astounding

@sottosopravoce

2 жыл бұрын

The truly scandalous part is that he grabs the busk of her corset to pull her around.

@adolflazary5864

2 жыл бұрын

Es un poco atrevida para mí gusto. Mentira, es una hermosa danza. Gracias. Saludos

@bulstrode1882

2 жыл бұрын

Ankles where seen a lot it was the whole leg that was considered discusting

I like at 00:36 the onlookers in the background are shocked (and rightly so! ) at the Gentleman lifting the Lady into the air with his hands on her hips. A very risque dance for its time.

My partner better start doing some push ups or something. I want this to be our wedding dance, he's be done by the second lift 😂 Lovely performance my lord and my lady

@moniquita2958

10 ай бұрын

Did you manage? :D

Looks like fun! Came across a couple learning this dance in a book and didn't know what they were doing. Thanks 😊

@kohakuaiko

4 ай бұрын

Was it "Just Stab Me Now?" 😂

Who could not love this? It's wonderful ❤

First-hand accounts and dance manuals talk about and show how the man would clasp the back of his partner with one arm while the front hand grasped the bottom of her busk thus helping him to lift her. A busk is a bone stiffener placed in the front of the corset which ran for about 16 inches, placing it at approximately the lady’s crotch. The turn of the man’s face into the woman’s bust, his hand pressing into her crotch, and the fact that they were close enough to kiss gave critics hissy fits. For, as everyone knows, dance is just horizontal sex with clothes on. Elizabeth I adored this dance. The dance in this video was very sanitized. :)

There is a beautiful example of this in the Cate Blanchett film of Elizabeth 1.

@suebursztynski2530

9 ай бұрын

Very suitable, I believe Elizabeth danced this regularly.

@paulinemegson8519

2 ай бұрын

Actually the thing they do in that movie is nothing like a Volta.

@gloriajenkins1569

2 ай бұрын

​@@paulinemegson8519 Unless we were time travellers, we'd never have an exact comparison. But I'm sure the film's research team will have been employed, allowing for some poetic licence.

the man in the back wearing yellow has the most infectious smile.

Looks super fun, especially the lifting

beautifully danced!

A fair representation of the dance. Strictly speaking, however, the lifts do not follow the directions of Thoinot Arbeau. According to him the lady essentially sits on the gentleman's thigh during the lift. In order to accomplish this, the dancer's cannot start face to face, as they do here, but rather at something like a right angle. This permits the gentleman getting his leg under the lady. The lift, coming out of a plié, is primarily achieved by his raising his leg, not by use of his arms, which are, rather, primarily used to stabilize his partner while she is up. The effect should be one of total control, rather than the woman being thrown about like a rag doll -- as is sometimes seen!

@JMarieCAlove

2 жыл бұрын

Thrown like a rag doll? Lol.. I didn’t see her get flung onto the ground or dragged like a rag doll. They’re doing the dancing, so I’m sure they know what they’re doing. And it was perfect.

@rachelmcdonough1506

2 жыл бұрын

The lift looks right to me. I see his leg used in the lift!

@adamnoman4658

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachelmcdonough1506 @ 0 34 You can see that both the gentleman's feet are planted firmly on the ground and that the lift is accomplished entirely with his arms using the usual modern ballet technique of a bilateral handhold at the lady's rib cage or higher. The relationship between the two dancers at the height of the lift is en face. With such a technique the couple do not spin together during the climax of the lift, contrary to Arbeau's description, which suggests a more fluid effect. The proper technique is further suggested by a couple of contemporary paintings of the dance, one of which is reproduced in the Wiki entry on "La Volta." The detail visualizes Arbeau's description perfectly: that is, that the man uses one hand to grab the woman's corset busk and the other hand around her back to stabilize her. As shown in the painting, the man is in releve on one leg, the other presumably serving as the seat for the woman as BOTH spin approximately a quarter turn. In this wise it may be said that there is a greater degree of equality and intimacy of movement in the historically correct version than in the "reconstruction" recorded in this video.

@adamnoman4658

2 жыл бұрын

PS. Dammit, but YT doesn't permit hot links to URLs off its own platform. However, the good news is that the first painting accompanies the W i k i entry on the dance: " Volta (dance) "

@adamnoman4658

2 жыл бұрын

PPS. You may find the following classical music upload channel of interest: kzread.info/dron/dcua0SdbX7qecolinSNIsg.html

The GASP! when he lifts her the first time!

This is soo indecent!!!

Anyone else here to look up what this dance is after reading Jill Bearup's novel? 😄

Scandalous!

Very beautiful

Great fun!

wonderful

Belíssimo

Y did the guy in the green top have to spoil that by walking across the dancers??

@adamnoman4658

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Every amateur dance video has to have someone in green spoil the shoot.

@franceshicks5337

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamnoman4658 loved the Elizabethan dance so loved by Elizabeth the 1st I felt guy in green could have waited til dance finished, but there u go ,his name probably Richard or Walter

@adamnoman4658

3 жыл бұрын

@@franceshicks5337 : A fair representation of the dance as performed here. Strictly speaking, however, the lifts do not follow the directions of Thoinot Arbeau. According to him the lady essentially sits on the gentleman's thigh during the lift. In order to accomplish this, the dancer's cannot start face to face, as they do here, but rather at something like a right angle. This permits the gentleman getting his leg under the lady. The lift, coming out of a plié, is primarily achieved by his raising his leg, not by use of his arms, which are, rather, primarily used to stabilize his partner while she is up. The effect should be one of total control, rather than the woman being thrown about like a rag doll -- as is sometimes seen!

Lovely performance!

Omg I love her dress! Anyone know where I can get a dress like that?😍

@rachelmcdonough1506

2 жыл бұрын

Etsy- but it’s very very expensive! Better to take up sewing and try to make one yourself haha

@emeraldmay9351

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachelmcdonough1506 thank you 😊 ah yes I have tried to get into sewing but sadly I find it very difficult 😞

That camera man at 0:50 didn’t know where he was going when he put on that tee shirt the night before. Wear black out of respect for the artists?

What is name of this dance?))

awkward moment when the guy in modern dress is the odd one lol

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While the nobles danced loke crickets the peasants toiled in the fields

Try this with someone Lizzo's size.

This is a saltarello.

She could’ve got hurt when dropped.

Didst thou just LIFT a lady, Sir?

@redcardinalist

8 ай бұрын

tis scandlous behaviour!

This was supposedly a scandalous dance at the time. 😂

Positively scandalous! Not only is there a physical contact between a man and a woman who are probably not married to each other, when he lifts her up, one is exposed to all kinds of ankle. Very risque.

Ein tanz für den hormongesteuerten dr vasoldt .da darf er die frauen auch anfassen und hochwirbeln .ohne dass der fürstbischof meckert pf