Renaissance dance

thumb|Allemande, from a dancing manual of

thumb|upright=1.35|A Pavane, Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897

thumb|upright=1.35|A courante rhythm

right|thumb|Galliard in Siena, Italy, 15th century

thumb|Dancing the Haymakers' Jig at an Irish ceilidh The jig (, ) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It first gained popularity across the British Isles in the 16th-century, and was adopted on mainland Europe where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga). Today it is most associated with Irish dance music, Scottish country dance, French Canadian traditional music and dance and the Métis people in Canada. Jigs were originally in quadruple compound metre, (e.g., t

thumb|upright|Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the plumed helmet, the "[[heroic cuirass" in armour and other conventions were still employed for opera seria in the 18th century.]]

thumb|250px|Passepied from opera-Entr'acte|interlude [[The Shagreen Bone]]

medieval social phenomena

French dance manual author and priest (1520-1595)

thumb|250px|''Branle d'Ossau'' by Alfred Dartiguenave, 1855–1856

thumb|Saltarello. Illustration by [[Bartolomeo Pinelli.]] The saltarello is a musical dance originally from Italy. The first mention of it is in Add MS 29987, a late-fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Tuscan origin, now in the British Library. It was usually played in a fast triple meter and is named for its peculiar leaping step, after the Italian verb saltare ("to jump"). This characteristic is also the basis of the German name Hoppertanz or Hupfertanz ("hopping dance"); other names include the French pas de Brabant and the Spanish alta or alta danza.

thumb|upright=1.4|Carillon of a [[morris dancer over a jeweler in Munich]] Moresca (Italian), morisca (Spanish), mourisca (Portuguese) or moresque, mauresque (French), also known in French as the danse des bouffons, is a dance of exotic character encountered in Europe in the Renaissance period. This dance usually took form of medieval wars in Spain between Moors and Christians and is related to the Spanish Moors and Christians festivals. Elements of moresca include blackening of the face, bells attached to the costumes and, in occasions, men disguised as women to portray fools. An example of t

principal court dance during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Italian/French composer and musician

Italian dancer and poet

thumb|330px|Bergamesca ('The Buffens'), Straloch MS., c. 1600 . thumb|330px|Bergamesca variant, MS. Lute Book, c. 1600 .

ballet written by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx

type of dance

Type of dance popularised during the late Renaissance

The tourdion (or tordion) (from the French verb "tordre" / to twist) is a lively dance, similar in nature to the galliard, and popular from the mid-15th to the late-16th centuries, first in the Burgundian court and then all over the French kingdom. The dance was accompanied frequently by the basse danse, due to their contrasting tempi, and were danced alongside the pavane and galliard, and the allemande and courante, also in pairs.

The passamezzo (plural: passamezzi or passamezzos) is an Italian folk dance of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Italian dancer

dancer

type of dance

dancing manual containing the music and instructions for English country dances; first published in 1651 by John Playford