Galliard 

I just foolishly accepted a challenge to learn this as a techno dancer. I can, and I will, but that is no joke of a dance. You think it hurts looking at? It hurts more understanding what I'm in for. Without dedicated core and balance and *ankle* training, how were people expected to be able to do that?

I don historical dances and just started to learn this. Well maybe in one year I will be able to make the step somehow.

The basic galliard does get you out of breath, but isn’t too hard. It’s when you do the variations that it gets more exhausting. It’s fun, though.

No Christmas trees during the renaissance unfortunately

Mate, I can galliard and can arrest it is. Constant leg tension and a controlled upper body. I used to use it for fighter training. And for fun.

I would have leg cramps. 😸

When I play the music, I always end up getting up and doing some galliard steps myself! It does rather make me lose my focus on writing… 😂

Thank you!

There are other version for bandora, cittern, keyboard and consort. Some of them are called Noel's galliard after Henry Noel - believed to have been the famous Bonny Boots.

@@rainerausdemspring3584 yes indeed. I didn't know about Henry Noel possibly being Bonny Boots. Thanks for that.

@@NotThePaperClip See David Greer, THOU COURT'S DELIGHT': BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON HENRY NOEL, The lute Society Journal, 1975, page 49. Other musicologist have doubts - I can't find the articles. By the way, I am the editor of the Complete critical edition of Holborne's music for lute and bandora published by the English Lute Society.

Lucky.

I audibly laughed at that one, thank

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If there’s a similar dance where the dancers sing along to it at the top of their voices at 3am, then start threatening to stab each others an hour later, that’s my upstairs neighbours 🤣

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There is no gravity, just density of the bodies, which are heavier than the air.

I was thinking the same thing.

It's all in the nimble feet.

Arms are a bit effeminate in dancing sometimes. Keeps things more strait-laced and form-like.,

I don't think it's actually a double jump, or at least not meant to be. When they bring their feet together on the fifth beat, before the cadenza, they're so light and graceful that it flows better to keep on their toes and sort of turns into a spring.

@@helenyoung3733 ok, so i mean why bring feet on 5th beat... cadenza is taking two beats so they should be up on 5th beat not on the floor with two feet. just wondering, because it looks like double jump and cinque passi di gagliarda looks a bit different.

@@erdem___yildiz They're following the instructions of Arbeau, 1588, which also matches brief references in English 16th-cent manuscripts e.g. 'One two three four *and* five'. There are variants as you point out. Agree with Helen -- wonderfully light and springy and they don't even appear out of breath!

​@@annhinchliffe8314 @Erdem Yildiz There are of course NUMEROUS galliard variations, but I have never come across this one with the extra bringing of feet together on count 5. This must be from one of the lesser known manuscripts. I wish I knew the source. Doing it the more usual way, hovering in the air on count 5, is more difficult. Arbeau says that one does 4 hopped kicks on counts 1,2,3,4, then one is IN THE AIR on count 5, and lands on count 6 (either both feet land on count 6, which is what the Italian sources prefer, or with one foot landing a bit earlier, on count "and", between the 5 and the 6, which is what Arbeau prefers). The momentum from the rebound from the hop on count 4, is what carries the dancer into the air. Because one is in the air, it does not count as a "step," which is why the sequence was called the "five-steps" (cinque pas, cinque passi, cinquepace) even though there are 6 counts of music. The very brief English source confirms this: "one, two, three, four, and five" rather than "one, two, three, four, five, six." But it's always good to learn about a new source and see it performed!!! So Thank You!!!

I also wondered about that. See my reply to Ann Hinchliffe, above.

Reminds me of Morris Dancing a bit but without the sticks.

Found this dance after reading on tritones and the Galilei family.

I just googled it myself, how in the world did you find this searching porco’s name 😭

@@j.t.9175 I know that you commented a year ago, I apologize for replying now 💀, but how did Galliard tie into that?

@@zacurragazzo9432 We legit just typed in “Porco Galliard” on RU-vid when he was just introduced in the manga (I think) and we found this! We wanted to see what would pop up lmao

3 years late to the game but I'm guessing we read the same book. Legend status at Lepanto.

Galliards are typically improvisational.

This particular dance was in a 16th century manuscript about recommended dances in English courts. There were just illustrations and maybe some notations, don't quite remember.

@@Oceananswer You could look up (Google) a bloke called Arbeau who wrote about galliards and other dances in a book called Orchesographie, 1588. As Russell and Michael will know, you choose your music then choose any of a range of the movements Arbeau describes. If 2 dancers, they take turns dancing then change places & repeat, as in video. A good wooden floor helps -- it's very energetic!

Dancetime Publication in US produces sets of instructional videos books and music DVDs including How to Dance Through Time. Vol. III Majesty of Renaissance Dance (but Gaillard( only has man's part?!) Perhaps the book has references to others ? Good luck!!

@@tymanung8058 Thank you!

Cry harder.

The Renaissance, but I am no expert and cannot narrow it down any more than that. I do know that the gailliard was a favourite dance of Elizabeth I.

16th century

@@JohnSmith-oe5kx Yup. Danced all across most of Europe in the 1500s. Evidence is mostly for courtly settings but there are a couple of references to 'lower classes' having a go. More info if you want from the Historical Dance Society, who tutored for this video, and the Early Dance Circle (both UK).

so which one？I try to find out the BGM～

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@@Camilorto jajajajaajajja camilo

Pensé en lo mismo. Además, es divertido.

Yes, pretty rigid especially when you consider that the clothes of the time didn't allow bending in the middle. They were also expected to demonstrate control and a noble bearing.( Their arms could have moved just a little though).

@@helenyoung3733 You should know, Helen! how many times have you and Steve danced splendid galliards and canarios for HDS?

mind you, most of the 16thC illustrations I can think of show the chap with sword in scabbard, and often a short cloak on one shoulder. So one hand would have to hold the sword still wouldn't it?

Sure, why not?

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GALLIAAAARD

Not as goofy as the modern shite dancing.

Imagine how dances nowadays will be seen as archaic 100 years from now. Get off your high horse.

And how would you dance to this music? We dance the way we do now because it suits the music we listen to

In two hundred years.. 'can't believe they sacrificed Travis Scott fans for Lucifer in that primitive age'

You had to have skill and poise to dance back then, instead of mincing about to jungle music.