User:LazyStarryNights/Canary (dance)

TODO

 * Migrate interwiki links from Canarie to Canary
 * Disampage Canario and Canarie and if present edit the one for Canary
 * The evidence is shown in the original articles, some of the pages that link to them, and some of the other language pages that link to Canarie (dance), for example: Canarie, Canarie, and Canarie (danse) from which also some contents could be reused. Finally an addition to the disambiguation page Canary would be needed.

The canary (Fr., canarie; It., canario) is a dance from the renaissance and baroque eras. The dance was named for the Canary Islands, the dance's place of origin. It was popular all over Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century. It is mentioned in dance manuals from France and Italy, and is mentioned in sources from Spain and England, as well, including in plays by William Shakespeare.

The dance, which is most often choreographed for a singe couple, has been characterized as "a fiery wooing dance" with a Spanish flavor from its "rapid heel-and-toe stamps" and distinctive music. Also called frogs legs, it is a fast energetic dance that featured jumps, stamping of the feet and violent movement, accompanied by music with syncopated rhythms in 3/8 or 6/8 meter. While there are choreographies for the canary as a stand-alone dance in the dancing manuals of Fabritio Caroso, Cesare Negri, and Thoinot Arbeau, it most frequently appears as a section of a larger dance or suite of dances.

Choreographies and Reconstructions

 * Il Canario: The Canary of Cesare Negri with its Variations -- reconstructed by Delbert von Straßburg
 * Caroso's Il Canario (Il Ballarino)
 * Canario Musical Arrangements

Reconstruction Video Clips

 * Il Canario from Ballare 2010, Bauska (uploaded Jan. 5, 2011)
 * Canario for Three (uploaded May 16, 2010)
 * Canario de J.H. Kapsberger (uploaded Mar. 13, 2008)
 * Canario, performed by Saltatriculi early dance ensemble (uploaded Aug. 22, 2011)