Damnes

a bassadanza for 3

Source: AW Smith (10 mms), reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr

Music: Alta Danza (no intro - doesn't *quite* work by 2 measures)

Starting position: side by side, holding hands (woman between two men, by the instructions)

Section 1:

1

2 continentie, left and right

2&3

Ends switch with 2 sempi, left and right, and a ripresa left - End 1 going in front of the Middle, End 2 behind

4&5

Ends return to their places with 2 sempi, right and left, and a ripresa right - End 2 in front, End 1 behind

6&7

All do a volta del gioioso (2 sempi, right and left, and a ripresa right)

8

Riverentia (left)

Section 2:

9-13

Middle weaves around the ends (End 1 first) with 2 sempi, left and right, and 4 doppi, starting left

14&15

Together, 2 riprese, left and right

16

Riverentia (left)

Section 3:

17-19

Middle goes forward with 2 sempi, left and right, and 2 doppi, left and right, mezavolta

as the Ends go backwards 3 riprese portogallesi (flanking), left, right, left

20&21

Ends volta del gioioso (2 sempi, right and left, and 1 ripresa right)

as the Middle does 2 riprese, left and right

22-24

Ends meet the middle with 2 sempi, left and right, and 2 doppi, left and right; at the end, mezavolta

as the Middle does a large circle with the same steps

25&26

All do 2 riprese, left and right (because of the mezavoltas, the ends have "switched" places)

Section 4:

27

2 continentie, left and right; everyone make a quarter turn to the left to form a column

28-31

4 saltarelli, starting left; mezavolta at the end

32

Ripresa, left

33

2 sempi, right and left

34

1 doppio, right; everyone make a quarter turn to the left to face the same way they were before the column

35

Ripresa, left

36&37

Volta del gioioso (2 sempi, right and left, and a ripresa right) -- note, leave this out in Alta Danza

38

Riverentia (left)

Alta Danza does not repeat, though the instructions suggest that the dance should