Comments on: Emma 2009 Episode 3

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:12:06 +0000

Hello Vintage Dancer, I know this is off topic of your comment, but you mentioned that you danced in the Ball scene from BBC’s Emma! Wow! That’s just the kind of thing I want to do! How exactly do you find out about these dances, and how can you become an extra for one? I know alot of dances, and I’ve tried to learn the one’s off Emma, simply by watching, but I can’t quite get them. I’d love to have the dance steps if you have them?! I’d also love to be a dance extra for a period type movie, but I don’t know how to get involved.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:06:27 +0000

I truely loved this series and thought both JLM and Romola Garai did a very nice job.
After watching that dance scene that “teased my heart” I proclaim those two be forever Emma and her Mr. Knightly to me.
I adored the part at the beginning of the dance where she raised her eyebrows at him in a playful girlish way but by the end of the dance she seemed to have flounderingly awakened into the more mysterious feelings of being a woman.
After all Frank was but a boy, something like a playmate but Mr. Knightly was a mature man who was viewing her with different eyes.

On the other hand if by chance that was just a faux pas because the scene was funny to film I am glad it was left in because that is what I picked up from it.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:41:07 +0000

I would LOVE the instructions (and music, for that matter) for “Ginny’s Market.” I loved that dance (it was so romantic and rather sensual, I think) and would love to be able to learn it. If anyone knows them, please email me at thegreatsporkwielder@gmail.com

Thank you!

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:49:26 +0000

We do mainly just period dancing, waltzing, and some folk dancing like Virginia reel, Postes Jig that kind of stuff. Nothing in particular. Email me at forpetessake93@gmail.com if you get the dance steps. We prefer these kind of folf dances to the more formal ones.

By: Arlen Donald

Arlen Donald — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:04:26 +0000

My dance class would LOVE the cribs for it, too. I can get the music easily enough. (Pete, you can download it from itunes here http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emma-music-from-bbc-television/id340396690 )

We’ve tried watching over again but there are a few parts missed out so there’s no way to be sure.

P.S. Pete, what kind of dancing do you do in general? We do Scottish Country Dancing at our class but this is the kinda dance that was all over the U.K at that time.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:38:02 +0000

The music would be great too.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:04:46 +0000

Does anyone have the instructions for Ship’s Cook dance? We do period dancing in my group and this one looks fun.

By: Ansubel

Ansubel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:32:24 +0000

Gosh, I’ve read so many different viewpoints in these blogs! Have to say I agree with the comments by Jen K about the emotionally honesty of this production. With all due respect to the traditionalists (I won’t call them pendants!), I think its important to take a broad view of this new series. Jane Austin wrote Emma as a satire with significant comic elements, and I think that this production and casting captures that really well. I very much like the protrayal of Mr Knightley by Jonny Lee Miller – pretty much how I imagined from the book. Romola Garai’s change from slightly manic, frivolous Emma to the chastened post-Box Hill Emma is finely drawn, and even knowing the story, I was still moved to tears by the emotional tension in the proposal scene.
JA uses the story to highlight the poor lot of women in the nineteenth century: it comes over well in this series that Emma, with all her apparent wealth and privilege, is so limited in what she can do and who she can mix with, in a way which is incomprehensible for us in the 21st century – that’s why Frank Churchill’s arrival in Highbury is such a big event! If JA were alive, I’m sure she wouldn’t expect dramatisations of her novel to be ‘pickled in aspic’ by sticking rigidly to all period details, but would be delighted that her story of the human condition still appeals nearly 200 years later!

By: BBC One’s Emma 2009 – Episode Three Slideshow « Austenprose

BBC One’s Emma 2009 – Episode Three Slideshow « Austenprose — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:54:43 +0000

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By: Vintage Dancer

Vintage Dancer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:41:48 +0000

Yes Kiki, I guess a few months yet. It was a very small job ! Nothing like ‘Emma’ or P&P in terms of scale and production values I’m afraid !