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Hey

2006-02-23T03:44:49Z

198.77.46.54: speeling and also grammar too

The '''Hey''' is a [[dance]] figure done by a line of dancers, going each way along the line, roughly half the dancers going in each direction at any time, and alternating between passing by the right sides and by the left sides. Sometimes dancers will not be directly in line to begin with, and will go into line as they begin the hey. Heys are prominent in [[English Country Dance]] but also appear rarely in some renaisance dance forms. Some dance groups will lightly touch hands in passing (left hand when passing by left sides, then right hand, left hand, etc), a method which is often easier for beginners to learn. Others find little evidence for any hand movement in the original manuscripts, and keep their hands by their sides.

This figure is not always described as a 'hey' in period dance choregraphies, but instead instructions on how to carry out this figure (which appear to presume some familiarity with the form) are given for the particular dance. Heys most typically proceed until every dancer has returned to their original place, facing in the same direction that they started in (imagine a full figure 8 rather than an "s" or "o"). Occasionally the figure will pause halfway through the hey, but will resume after another dance figure is performed. Both lines of a partnered longways dance may perform this move at once (e. g. [[Grimstock]]) or in turn (e. g. [[Godesses]]).

To do a basic single hey, participants in the figure begin in line, facing each other in pairs; one may be left out at the end, in which case that one faces in along the line. All pairs facing pass each other by the same side (e. g. all by the right side). Then they pass the next one they meet, all passing by the other side, and so on. Each dancer, when coming to the end of the line, turns around the end of the line, turning to the same side that they passed the last person on; they have nobody to pass as they go around the end, so they miss the side they would have passed by that time, and when they come in they pass by the same side as when they went out.

Sometimes dancers are told to go around a "pole" at the end, but this can create needless confusion, as an imaginary, invisible pole is unlikely to be found in the right place. Too often it results in dancers making an additional loop because they thought the pole was beyond the end of the line.

If imaginary posts are to be used, it works better to imagine one between every dancer and the next. When passing a dancer one also passes a post; at the end of the line one continues to go forward around the post until one faces the other way along the line, and finds another dancer to pass as one finishes going around the post. This way of using the concept of posts, by the way, matches the sense of the word "hey" that the figure seems to be based upon: a fence with slats woven between posts.

Several variations on the floor pattern of the hey are done:
*the "circular hey" for four is done in the [[Bouffons]], a dance for four dancers in a square (equilateral) formation. In this variation, dancers proceed in a single direction around the formation until they return to their places, their feet having approximately described a large circle. This hey is sometimes inserted into Playford dances, but that is not likely to be correct. When a Playford dance has a hey for four dancers who begin in a rectangular position, this tends to be an elongated rectangle (which favors a transition to a linear hey), and often the figures of the dance specifically elongate the rectangle before the hey. Sometimes the hey is begun by two dancers crossing the middle on the long axis of the rectangle, which effectively leaves the four in line, and in [[Dull Sir John]] a rectangle of four is explicitly lined up before the hey.
*The Double Hey, which appears in a few longways dances, is conjectured to be like a larger version of the "circular hey", in a long oval: dancers weave along the line on both sides of the formation, but instead of turning around the end to come the other way along the line on the same side, they cross to the other side of the formation, and continue in an oval pattern. The end dancers in the line may begin along the line or by facing across the line as requred by the individual dance.
*U shaped heys - a sort of mix between circular/oval and linear heys.

Variations in the practise of the hey also occur, the dance [[Grimstock]] giving 3 variations with very similar footprints.

tips for dancing heys:
*put the experienced couple at the top, and the inexperienced dancers will generally correct which side they are on according to which shoulder the expereinced dancers present.
*practise
*If you have learnt to dance with hand touching, and must suddenly dance without, imagine you are still touching hands - cup your hand or some similar movement to remind yourself which shoulder to present next
*Neither too fast nor too slow, and all dancers should tend to match each others' speed. For english country dances, a phrase of music is often played twice, in which case the end of the first phrase denotes when you should be at your halfway point and gives you a chance to speed up of slow down.

[[category:dance steps]]

Hey

2006-02-23T03:40:55Z

198.77.46.54: link format

The '''Hey''' is a [[dance]] figure done by a line of dancers, going each way along the line, roughly half the dancers going in each direction at any time, and alternating between passing by the right sides and by the left sides. Sometimes dancers will not be directly in line to begin with, and will go into line as they begin the hey. Heys are prominent in [[English Country Dance]] but also appear rarely in some renaisance dance forms. Some dance groups will lightly touch hands in passing (left hand when passing by left sides, then right hand, left hand, etc), a method which is often easier for beginners to learn. Others find little evidence for any hand movement in the original manuscripts, and keep their hands by their sides.

This figure is not always described as a 'hey' in period dance choregraphies, but instead instructions on how to carry out this figure (which appear to presume some familiarity with the form) are given for the particular dance. Heys most typically proceed until the dancer has returned to their orignal place, facing in the same direction as they started in (imagine a full figure 8 rather than an "s" or "o"). Occasionally this figure will pause halfway through the hey, but will resume after annother dance movement is performed. Both lines of a partnered longways dance may perform this move at once (e. g. [[Grimstock]]) or in turn (e. g. [[Godesses]]).

To do a basic single hey, participants in the figure begin in line, facing each other in pairs; one may be left out at the end, in which case that one faces in along the line. All pairs facing pass each other by the same side (e. g. all by the right side). Then they pass the next one they meet, all passing by the other side, and so on. Each dancer, when coming to the end of the line, turns around the end of the line, turning to the same side that they passed the last person on; they have nobody to pass as they go around the end, so they miss the side they would have passed by that time, and when they come in they pass by the same side as when they went out.

Sometimes dancers are told to go around a "pole" at the end, but this can create needless confusion, as an imaginary, invisible pole is unlikely to be found in the right place. Too often it results in dancers making an additional loop because they thought the pole was beyond the end of the line.

If imaginary posts are to be used, it works better to imagine one between every dancer and the next. When passing a dancer one also passes a post; at the end of the line one continues to go forward around the post until one faces the other way along the line, and finds another dancer to pass as one finishes going around the post. This way of using the concept of posts, by the way, matches the sense of the word "hey" that the figure seems to be based upon: a fence with slats woven between posts.

Several variations on the floor pattern of the hey are done:
*the "circular hey" for four is done in the [[Bouffons]], a dance for four dancers in a square (equilateral) formation. In this variation, dancers proceed in a single direction around the formation until they return to their places, their feet having approximately described a large circle. This hey is sometimes inserted into Playford dances, but that is not likely to be correct. When a Playford dance has a hey for four dancers who begin in a rectangular position, this tends to be an elongated rectangle (which favors a transition to a linear hey), and often the figures of the dance specifically elongate the rectangle before the hey. Sometimes the hey is begun by two dancers crossing the middle on the long axis of the rectangle, which effectively leaves the four in line, and in [[Dull Sir John]] a rectangle of four is explicitly lined up before the hey.
*The Double Hey, which appears in a few longways dances, is conjectured to be like a larger version of the "circular hey", in a long oval: dancers weave along the line on both sides of the formation, but instead of turning around the end to come the other way along the line on the same side, they cross to the other side of the formation, and continue in an oval pattern. The end dancers in the line may begin along the line or by facing across the line as requred by the individual dance.
*U shaped heys - a sort of mix between circular/oval and linear heys.

Variations in the practise of the hey also occur, the dance [[Grimstock]] giving 3 variations with very similar footprints.

tips for dancing heys:
*put the experienced couple at the top, and the inexperienced dancers will generally correct which side they are on according to which shoulder the expereinced dancers present.
*practise
*If you have learnt to dance with hand touching, and must suddenly dance without, imagine you are still touching hands - cup your hand or some similar movement to remind yourself which shoulder to present next
*Neither too fast nor too slow, and all dancers should tend to match each others' speed. For english country dances, a phrase of music is often played twice, in which case the end of the first phrase denotes when you should be at your halfway point and gives you a chance to speed up of slow down.

[[category:dance steps]]

Hey

2006-02-23T03:39:33Z

198.77.46.54: links & punct.

The '''Hey''' is a [[dance]] figure done by a line of dancers, going each way along the line, roughly half the dancers going in each direction at any time, and alternating between passing by the right sides and by the left sides. Sometimes dancers will not be directly in line to begin with, and will go into line as they begin the hey. Heys are prominent in [[english country dance]] but also appear rarely in some renaisance dance forms. Some dance groups will lightly touch hands in passing (left hand when passing by left sides, then right hand, left hand, etc), a method which is often easier for beginners to learn. Others find little evidence for any hand movement in the original manuscripts, and keep their hands by their sides.

This figure is not always described as a 'hey' in period dance choregraphies, but instead instructions on how to carry out this figure (which appear to presume some familiarity with the form) are given for the particular dance. Heys most typically proceed until the dancer has returned to their orignal place, facing in the same direction as they started in (imagine a full figure 8 rather than an "s" or "o"). Occasionally this figure will pause halfway through the hey, but will resume after annother dance movement is performed. Both lines of a partnered longways dance may perform this move at once (e. g. [[Grimstock]]) or in turn (e. g. [[Godesses]]).

To do a basic single hey, participants in the figure begin in line, facing each other in pairs; one may be left out at the end, in which case that one faces in along the line. All pairs facing pass each other by the same side (e. g. all by the right side). Then they pass the next one they meet, all passing by the other side, and so on. Each dancer, when coming to the end of the line, turns around the end of the line, turning to the same side that they passed the last person on; they have nobody to pass as they go around the end, so they miss the side they would have passed by that time, and when they come in they pass by the same side as when they went out.

Sometimes dancers are told to go around a "pole" at the end, but this can create needless confusion, as an imaginary, invisible pole is unlikely to be found in the right place. Too often it results in dancers making an additional loop because they thought the pole was beyond the end of the line.

If imaginary posts are to be used, it works better to imagine one between every dancer and the next. When passing a dancer one also passes a post; at the end of the line one continues to go forward around the post until one faces the other way along the line, and finds another dancer to pass as one finishes going around the post. This way of using the concept of posts, by the way, matches the sense of the word "hey" that the figure seems to be based upon: a fence with slats woven between posts.

Several variations on the floor pattern of the hey are done:
*the "circular hey" for four is done in the [[Bouffons]], a dance for four dancers in a square (equilateral) formation. In this variation, dancers proceed in a single direction around the formation until they return to their places, their feet having approximately described a large circle. This hey is sometimes inserted into Playford dances, but that is not likely to be correct. When a Playford dance has a hey for four dancers who begin in a rectangular position, this tends to be an elongated rectangle (which favors a transition to a linear hey), and often the figures of the dance specifically elongate the rectangle before the hey. Sometimes the hey is begun by two dancers crossing the middle on the long axis of the rectangle, which effectively leaves the four in line, and in [[Dull Sir John]] a rectangle of four is explicitly lined up before the hey.
*The Double Hey, which appears in a few longways dances, is conjectured to be like a larger version of the "circular hey", in a long oval: dancers weave along the line on both sides of the formation, but instead of turning around the end to come the other way along the line on the same side, they cross to the other side of the formation, and continue in an oval pattern. The end dancers in the line may begin along the line or by facing across the line as requred by the individual dance.
*U shaped heys - a sort of mix between circular/oval and linear heys.

Variations in the practise of the hey also occur, the dance [[Grimstock]] giving 3 variations with very similar footprints.

tips for dancing heys:
*put the experienced couple at the top, and the inexperienced dancers will generally correct which side they are on according to which shoulder the expereinced dancers present.
*practise
*If you have learnt to dance with hand touching, and must suddenly dance without, imagine you are still touching hands - cup your hand or some similar movement to remind yourself which shoulder to present next
*Neither too fast nor too slow, and all dancers should tend to match each others' speed. For english country dances, a phrase of music is often played twice, in which case the end of the first phrase denotes when you should be at your halfway point and gives you a chance to speed up of slow down.

[[category:dance steps]]

Hey

2006-02-23T03:33:49Z

198.77.46.54: restored stuff accidentally omitted from previous edit

The '''Hey''' is a [[dance]] figure done by a line of dancers, going each way along the line, roughly half the dancers going in each direction at any time, and alternating between passing by the right sides and by the left sides. Sometimes dancers will not be directly in line to begin with, and will go into line as they begin the hey. Heys are prominent in [[english country dance]] but also appear rarely in some renaisance dance forms. Some dance groups will lightly touch hands in passing (left hand when passing by left sides, then right hand, left hand, etc), a method which is often easier for beginners to learn. Others find little evidence for any hand movement in the original manuscripts, and keep their hands by their sides.

This figure is not always described as a 'hey' in period dance choregraphies, but instead instructions on how to carry out this figure (which appear to presume some familiarity with the form) are given for the particular dance. Heys most typically proceed until the dancer has returned to their orignal place, facing in the same direction as they started in (imagine a full figure 8 rather than an "s" or "o"). Occasionally this figure will pause halfway through the hey, but will resume after annother dance movement is performed. Both lines of a partnered longways dance may perform this move at once (eg Grimstock) or in turn (eg Godesses

To do a basic single hey, participants in the figure begin in line, facing each other in pairs; one may be left out at the end, in which case that one faces in along the line. All pairs facing pass each other by the same side (e. g. all by the right side). Then they pass the next one they meet, all passing by the other side, and so on. Each dancer, when coming to the end of the line, turns around the end of the line, turning to the same side that they passed the last person on; they have nobody to pass as they go around the end, so they miss the side they would have passed by that time, and when they come in they pass by the same side as when they went out.

Sometimes dancers are told to go around a "pole" at the end, but this can create needless confusion, as an imaginary, invisible pole is unlikely to be found in the right place. Too often it results in dancers making an additional loop because they thought the pole was beyond the end of the line.

If imaginary posts are to be used, it works better to imagine one between every dancer and the next. When passing a dancer one also passes a post; at the end of the line one continues to go forward around the post until one faces the other way along the line, and finds another dancer to pass as one finishes going around the post. This way of using the concept of posts, by the way, matches the sense of the word "hey" that the figure seems to be based upon: a fence with slats woven between posts.

Several variations on the floor pattern of the hey are done:
*the "circular hey" for four is done in the [[Bouffons]], a dance for four dancers in a square (equilateral) formation. In this variation, dancers proceed in a single direction around the formation until they return to their places, their feet having approximately described a large circle. This hey is sometimes inserted into Playford dances, but that is not likely to be correct. When a Playford dance has a hey for four dancers who begin in a rectangular position, this tends to be an elongated rectangle (which favors a transition to a linear hey), and often the figures of the dance specifically elongate the rectangle before the hey. Sometimes the hey is begun by two dancers crossing the middle on the long axis of the rectangle, which effectively leaves the four in line, and in [[Dull Sir John]] a rectangle of four is explicitly lined up before the hey.
*The Double Hey, which appears in a few longways dances, is conjectured to be like a larger version of the "circular hey", in a long oval: dancers weave along the line on both sides of the formation, but instead of turning around the end to come the other way along the line on the same side, they cross to the other side of the formation, and continue in an oval pattern. The end dancers in the line may begin along the line or by facing across the line as requred by the individual dance.
*U shaped heys - a sort of mix between circular/oval and linear heys.

Variations in the practise of the hey also occur, the dance [[Grimstock]] giving 3 variations with very similar footprints.

tips for dancing heys:
*put the experienced couple at the top, and the inexperienced dancers will generally correct which side they are on according to which shoulder the expereinced dancers present.
*practise
*If you have learnt to dance with hand touching, and must suddenly dance without, imagine you are still touching hands - cup your hand or some similar movement to remind yourself which shoulder to present next
*Neither too fast nor too slow, and all dancers should tend to match each others' speed. For english country dances, a phrase of music is often played twice, in which case the end of the first phrase denotes when you should be at your halfway point and gives you a chance to speed up of slow down.

[[category:dance steps]]

Hey

2006-02-23T03:29:48Z

198.77.46.54: many changes

The '''Hey''' is a [[dance]] figure done by a line of dancers, going each way along the line, roughly half the dancers going in each direction at any time, and alternating between passing by the right sides and by the left sides. Sometimes dancers will not be directly in line to begin with, and will go into line as they begin the hey. Heys are prominent in [[english country dance]] but also appear rarely in some renaisance dance forms. Some dance groups will lightly touch hands in passing (left hand when passing by left sides, then right hand, left hand, etc), a method which is often easier for beginners to learn. Others find little evidence for any hand movement in the original manuscripts, and keep their hands by their sides.

This figure is not always described as a 'hey' in period dance choregraphies, but instead instructions on how to carry out this figure (which appear to presume some familiarity with the form) are given for the particular dance.

To do a basic single hey, participants in the figure begin in line, facing each other in pairs; one may be left out at the end, in which case that one faces in along the line. All pairs facing pass each other by the same side (e. g. all by the right side). Then they pass the next one they meet, all passing by the other side, and so on. Each dancer, when coming to the end of the line, turns around the end of the line, turning to the same side that they passed the last person on; they have nobody to pass as they go around the end, so they miss the side they would have passed by that time, and when they come in they pass by the same side as when they went out.

Sometimes dancers are told to go around a "pole" at the end, but this can create needless confusion, as an imaginary, invisible pole is unlikely to be found in the right place. Too often it results in dancers making an additional loop because they thought the pole was beyond the end of the line.

If imaginary posts are to be used, it works better to imagine one between every dancer and the next. When passing a dancer one also passes a post; at the end of the line one continues to go forward around the post until one faces the other way along the line, and finds another dancer to pass as one finishes going around the post. This way of using the concept of posts, by the way, matches the sense of the word "hey" that the figure seems to be based upon: a fence with slats woven between posts.

Several variations on the floor pattern of the hey are done:
*the "circular hey" for four is done in the [[Bouffons]], a dance for four dancers in a square (equilateral) formation. In this variation, dancers proceed in a single direction around the formation until they return to their places, their feet having approximately described a large circle. This hey is sometimes inserted into Playford dances, but that is not likely to be correct. When a Playford dance has a hey for four dancers who begin in a rectangular position, this tends to be an elongated rectangle (which favors a transition to a linear hey), and often the figures of the dance specifically elongate the rectangle before the hey. Sometimes the hey is begun by two dancers crossing the middle on the long axis of the rectangle, which effectively leaves the four in line, and in [[Dull Sir John]] a rectangle of four is explicitly lined up before the hey.
*The Double Hey, which appears in a few longways dances, is conjectured to be like a larger version of the "circular hey", in a long oval: dancers weave along the line on both sides of the formation, but instead of turning around the end to come the other way along the line on the same side, they cross to the other side of the formation, and continue in an oval pattern. The end dancers in the line may begin along the line or by facing across the line as requred by the individual dance.
*U shaped heys - a sort of mix between circular/oval and linear heys.

Variations in the practise of the hey also occur, the dance [[Grimstock]] giving 3 variations with very similar footprints.

tips for dancing heys:
*put the experienced couple at the top, and the inexperienced dancers will generally correct which side they are on according to which shoulder the expereinced dancers present.
*practise
*If you have learnt to dance with hand touching, and must suddenly dance without, imagine you are still touching hands - cup your hand or some similar movement to remind yourself which shoulder to present next
*Neither too fast nor too slow, and all dancers should tend to match each others' speed. For english country dances, a phrase of music is often played twice, in which case the end of the first phrase denotes when you should be at your halfway point and gives you a chance to speed up of slow down.

[[category:dance steps]]

Boat-man

2006-02-23T02:14:44Z

198.77.46.54: /* Steps and Movements Used */ comma

'''Boat man''' is a [[dance]] from [[Playford's Dancing Master]].

==Steps and Movements Used==

* [[Double]]s forward, with left and right ('''DL''' and '''DR'''), and back ('''DLb''' and '''DRb''')
* [[Set and Turn]] left and right ('''STL''' and '''STR''')
* [[Hey]]
* [[Turn your own]]
* [[Sides]] ('''SdR''' and '''SdL''')
* [[Arms]] ('''AR''' and '''AL''')

==Choreography==

[[image:Longsix.PNG]]

This dance starts with three couples facing up the hall, one after the other.

===First Verse===

:Holding customary hands with partners, do a double forward, then a double back again. Set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

DL, DRb 
STL 
DL, DRb 
STR 

===First Chorus===

The first couple and the second man perform a hey with each other. This hey starts with the first couple taking right hands. While this is happening the third couple and second woman also perform a hey. This hey starts with the third couple taking right hands.

Each couple then turns their own.

The first couple and the second woman perform a hey with each other. This hey starts with the first couple taking left hands. While this is happening the third couple and second man also perform a hey. This hey starts with the third couple taking left hands.

Each couple then turns their own.

===Second Verse===

:Couples side by the right with each other; set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

SdR 
STL 
SdL 
STR 

===Second Chorus===

The first couple and the second man take hands in a circle and go half way around. At the same time, the third couple and the second woman take hands in a circle and go half way around. This will leave the men on the right hand side and the women on the left, and everyone will have new partners.

Each couple then turns their own.

The first couple and the second woman take hands in a circle and go half way around. At the same time, the third couple and the second man take hands in a circle and go half way around. This will leave the men on the left hand side and the women on the right, and everyone will have new partners.

Each couple then turns their own.

===Third Verse===

:Couples arm by the right with each other. Set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

AR 
STL 
AL 
STR 

===Third Chorus===

The first and last man and second woman all take hands and go around in a full circle.

The second couple turn each other.

The first and last woman and second man all take hands and go around in a full circle.

The second couple turn each other.

==Music==

The music is usually played through three times.

==External links==

* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/011small.html Facsimile of the 1651 instructions]

[[category:dances]]

Boat-man

2006-02-23T02:14:16Z

198.77.46.54: /* Steps and Movements Used */ clarified that doubles are forward by default

'''Boat man''' is a [[dance]] from [[Playford's Dancing Master]].

==Steps and Movements Used==

* [[Double]]s forward, with left and right ('''DL''' and '''DR''') and back ('''DLb''' and '''DRb''')
* [[Set and Turn]] left and right ('''STL''' and '''STR''')
* [[Hey]]
* [[Turn your own]]
* [[Sides]] ('''SdR''' and '''SdL''')
* [[Arms]] ('''AR''' and '''AL''')

==Choreography==

[[image:Longsix.PNG]]

This dance starts with three couples facing up the hall, one after the other.

===First Verse===

:Holding customary hands with partners, do a double forward, then a double back again. Set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

DL, DRb 
STL 
DL, DRb 
STR 

===First Chorus===

The first couple and the second man perform a hey with each other. This hey starts with the first couple taking right hands. While this is happening the third couple and second woman also perform a hey. This hey starts with the third couple taking right hands.

Each couple then turns their own.

The first couple and the second woman perform a hey with each other. This hey starts with the first couple taking left hands. While this is happening the third couple and second man also perform a hey. This hey starts with the third couple taking left hands.

Each couple then turns their own.

===Second Verse===

:Couples side by the right with each other; set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

SdR 
STL 
SdL 
STR 

===Second Chorus===

The first couple and the second man take hands in a circle and go half way around. At the same time, the third couple and the second woman take hands in a circle and go half way around. This will leave the men on the right hand side and the women on the left, and everyone will have new partners.

Each couple then turns their own.

The first couple and the second woman take hands in a circle and go half way around. At the same time, the third couple and the second man take hands in a circle and go half way around. This will leave the men on the left hand side and the women on the right, and everyone will have new partners.

Each couple then turns their own.

===Third Verse===

:Couples arm by the right with each other. Set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

AR 
STL 
AL 
STR 

===Third Chorus===

The first and last man and second woman all take hands and go around in a full circle.

The second couple turn each other.

The first and last woman and second man all take hands and go around in a full circle.

The second couple turn each other.

==Music==

The music is usually played through three times.

==External links==

* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/011small.html Facsimile of the 1651 instructions]

[[category:dances]]

Boat-man

2006-02-23T02:13:27Z

198.77.46.54: Corrections: sides, arms; set & turn L, then R

'''Boat man''' is a [[dance]] from [[Playford's Dancing Master]].

==Steps and Movements Used==

* [[Double]]s left and right ('''DL''' and '''DR''') and back ('''DLb''' and '''DRb''')
* [[Set and Turn]] left and right ('''STL''' and '''STR''')
* [[Hey]]
* [[Turn your own]]
* [[Sides]] ('''SdR''' and '''SdL''')
* [[Arms]] ('''AR''' and '''AL''')

==Choreography==

[[image:Longsix.PNG]]

This dance starts with three couples facing up the hall, one after the other.

===First Verse===

:Holding customary hands with partners, do a double forward, then a double back again. Set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

DL, DRb 
STL 
DL, DRb 
STR 

===First Chorus===

The first couple and the second man perform a hey with each other. This hey starts with the first couple taking right hands. While this is happening the third couple and second woman also perform a hey. This hey starts with the third couple taking right hands.

Each couple then turns their own.

The first couple and the second woman perform a hey with each other. This hey starts with the first couple taking left hands. While this is happening the third couple and second man also perform a hey. This hey starts with the third couple taking left hands.

Each couple then turns their own.

===Second Verse===

:Couples side by the right with each other; set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

SdR 
STL 
SdL 
STR 

===Second Chorus===

The first couple and the second man take hands in a circle and go half way around. At the same time, the third couple and the second woman take hands in a circle and go half way around. This will leave the men on the right hand side and the women on the left, and everyone will have new partners.

Each couple then turns their own.

The first couple and the second woman take hands in a circle and go half way around. At the same time, the third couple and the second man take hands in a circle and go half way around. This will leave the men on the left hand side and the women on the right, and everyone will have new partners.

Each couple then turns their own.

===Third Verse===

:Couples arm by the right with each other. Set and Turn left. Repeat to the other side.

AR 
STL 
AL 
STR 

===Third Chorus===

The first and last man and second woman all take hands and go around in a full circle.

The second couple turn each other.

The first and last woman and second man all take hands and go around in a full circle.

The second couple turn each other.

==Music==

The music is usually played through three times.

==External links==

* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/011small.html Facsimile of the 1651 instructions]

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Dances from Playford

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The following dances appear in [[Playford's Dancing Master|The English Dancing-Master by John Playford]].

* [[Adsons Saraband]]
* [[Al-a-Mode de France]]
* [[All in a Garden Green]]
* [[An old man is a bed full of Bones]]
* [[Argeers]]
* [[Aye me, or the Simphony]]
* [[Bath]]
* [[Beggar Boy]]
* [[Blew Cap]]
* [[Boat-man]]
* [[Bobbing Joe]]
* [[Broome]]
* [[Castbella]]
* [[Cheerily and Merrily]]
* [[Chestnut (dance)|Chestnut]]
* [[Chirping of the Larke]]
* [[Chirping of the Nightingale]]
* [[Confesse his Tune]]
* [[Country Coll]]
* [[Cuckolds all a row]]
* [[Daphne]]
* [[Dargason, or Sedany]]
* [[Dissembling Love]]
* [[Drive the cold winter away]]
* [[Dull Sir John]]
* [[Fine Companion]]
* [[Faine I would if I could]]
* [[Fryar and the Nun]]
* [[Gathering Peascods]]
* [[Glory of the west]]
* [[Godesses]]
* [[Graies Inne Maske]]
* [[Greenwood]]
* [[Grimstock]]
* [[Gun]]
* [[Halfe Hanikin]]
* [[Have at thy coat old woman]]
* [[Health to Betty]]
* [[Healths]]
* [[Hearts ease]]
* [[Hide Parke]]
* [[Hit or misse]]
* [[Hockley i'th hole]]
* [[If all the World were Paper]]
* [[Irish Lady]]
* [[Irish trot]]
* [[Jack-o-Lent]]
* [[Jack Pudding]]
* [[Jenny pluck Pares]]
* [[Jog on]]
* [[Kemps Jeg]]
* [[Kettle Drum]]
* [[Lady Cullen]]
* [[Lady lye neare me]]
* [[Lady spillers]]
* [[Lavana]]
* [[London Gentlewoman]]
* [[Lord of Carnarvons Jeg]]
* [[Lulling beyond thee]]
* [[Mage on a Cree]]
* [[Mayd peept out of the window]]
* [[Mayden Lane]]
* [[Merry Merry Milke Mayds]]
* [[Milke Mayds Bob]]
* [[Millisons Jegge]]
* [[Millfield]]
* [[Mundesse]]
* [[New Boe peepe]]
* [[Newcastle]]
* [[New Exchange]]
* [[New New Nothing]]
* [[Night Peece]]
* [[Nonesuch]]
* [[An old man is a bed full of Bones|old man is a bed full of Bones, an]]
* [[Old Mole]]
* [[Once I loved a Mayden faire]]
* [[Parsons farewell]]
* [[Pauls Steeple]]
* [[Pauls Wharfe]]
* [[Peppers black]]
* [[Petticoat wag]]
* [[Picking of sticks]]
* [[Prince Ruperts March]]
* [[Punks delight]]
* [[Rose is red, and Rose is white]]
* [[Row well ye Marriners]]
* [[Rufty, tufty]]
* [[Saint Martins]]
* [[Saraband]]
* [[Saturday Night and Sunday Morne]]
* [[Scotch Cap]]
* [[Shepheards Holyday]]
* [[Skellamsago]]
* [[Slip]]
* [[Souldiers Life]]
* [[Spanish Jepsies]]
* [[Spanyard]]
* [[Staines Morris]]
* [[Step Stately]]
* [[Stingo]]
* [[Tom Tinker]]
* [[Upon a Summers day]]
* [[Up tayles all]]
* [[Whirligig]]
* [[Whish]]
* [[Woodycock]]

[[Category:dance]]

Dances from Playford

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The following dances appear in [[Playford's Dancing Master]].

* [[Adsons Saraband]]
* [[Al-a-Mode de France]]
* [[Argeers]]
* [[All in a Garden Green]]
* [[Aye me, or the Simphony]]
* [[And old man is a bed full of Bones]]
* [[Blew Cap]]
* [[Boat-man]]
* [[Beggar Boy]]
* [[Bobbing Joe]]
* [[Bath]]
* [[Broome]]
* [[Confesse his Tune]]
* [[Chirping of the Larke]]
* [[Castbella]]
* [[Chirping of the Nightengale]]
* [[Cherrily and Merrily]]
* [[Country Coll]]
* [[Cuckolds all a row]]
* [[Chestnut (dance)|Chestnut]]
* [[Daphne]]
* [[Drive the cold winter away]]
* [[Dissembling Love]]
* [[Dargason, or Sedany]]
* [[Dull Sir John]]
* [[Fine Companion]]
* [[Faine I would if I could]]
* [[Fryar and the Nun]]
* [[Grimstock]]
* [[Greenwood]]
* [[Gun]]
* [[Godesses]]
* [[Glory of the west]]
* [[Gathering Peascods]]
* [[Graies Inne Maske]]
* [[Hit or misse]]
* [[Health to Betty]]
* [[Have at thy coat old woman]]
* [[Halfe Hanikin]]
* [[Hearts ease]]
* [[Healths]]
* [[Hockley i'th hole]]
* [[Hide Parke]]
* [[If all the World were Paper]]
* [[Irish trot]]
* [[Irish Lady]]
* [[Jog on]]
* [[Jack Pudding]]
* [[Jack-o-Lent]]
* [[Jenny pluck Pares]]
* [[Kemps Jeg]]
* [[Kettle Drum]]
* [[Lady spillers]]
* [[Lord of Carnarvons Jeg]]
* [[Lady Cullen]]
* [[London Gentlewoman]]
* [[Lavans]]
* [[Lady lye neare me]]
* [[Lulling beyond thee]]
* [[Mage on a Cree]]
* [[Milisons Jeg]]
* [[Merry Merry Milke Mayds]]
* [[Milifield]]
* [[Mayd peept out of the window]]
* [[Mayden Lane]]
* [[Milke Mayds Bob]]
* [[Mandesse]]
* [[Night Peece]]
* [[New Exchange]]
* [[None such]]
* [[Newcastle]]
* [[New New Nothing]]
* [[New Boe peepe]]
* [[Old Mole]]
* [[Once I loved a Mayden faire]]
* [[Parsons farwell]]
* [[Picking of sticks]]
* [[Peppers black]]
* [[Prince Ruperts March]]
* [[Petticoat wag]]
* [[Pauls Steeple]]
* [[Punks delight]]
* [[Pals Wharfe]]
* [[Rose is red, and Rose is white]]
* [[Rufty, tufty]]
* [[Row well ye Marriners]]
* [[Stingo]]
* [[Saraband]]
* [[Spanish Jepsies]]
* [[Skellamfago]]
* [[Spanyard]]
* [[Souldiers Life]]
* [[Saints Martins]]
* [[Saturday Night and Sunday Morne]]
* [[Staines Morris]]
* [[Scotch Cap]]
* [[Step Stately]]
* [[Shepheards Holyday]]
* [[Slip]]
* [[Tom Tinker]]
* [[Upon a Summers day]]
* [[Up tayles all]]
* [[Whish]]
* [[Whirligig]]
* [[Woodycock]]

[[Category:dance]]

Double

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The '''double''', along with the [[single]], is the most common step in [[Renaissance dance]]. The double may be done with either the left foot or the right.

The standard forward double left is performed by doing three steps walking forward, first with the left foot, then the right foot, then the left foot again. In a style that seems to have originated in the later Renaissance, it is finished by closing the feet: bring the right foot forward to meet the left foot. A double right is the same, but with opposite feet. This kind of double can also be done walking backwards, as is sometimes specified in choreographies.

==Variants==

* [[Allemand double]]
* [[double left (branle)|Branle double left]]
* [[double right (branle)|Branle double right]]
* [[doppio]]

[[category:dance steps]]

Double

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The '''double''', along with the [[single]], is the most common step in [[Renaissance dance]]. There are two types of double; the double left and the double right.

The standard forward double left is performed by doing three steps walking forward, first with the left foot, then the right foot, then the left foot again. In a style that seems to have originated in the later Renaissance, it is finished by closing the feet: bring the right foot forward to meet the left foot. A double right is the same, but with opposite feet. This kind of double can also be done walking backwards, as is sometimes specified in choreographies.

==Variants==

* [[Allemand double]]
* [[double left (branle)|Branle double left]]
* [[double right (branle)|Branle double right]]
* [[doppio]]

[[category:dance steps]]

Double

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The '''double''', along with the [[single]], is the most common step in [[Renaissance dance]]. There are two types of double; the double left and the double right.

The standard (forward) double left is performed by taking a step forward onto the left foot, another with the right, the left again, and then bringing right foot forward to meet the left. A double right is the same, but with opposite feet. This kind of double can also be done walking backwards, as is sometimes specified in choreographies.

==Variants==

* [[Allemand double]]
* [[double left (branle)|Branle double left]]
* [[double right (branle)|Branle double right]]
* [[doppio]]

[[category:dance steps]]

Double

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The '''double''', along with the [[single]], is the most common step in [[Renaissance dance]]. There are two types of double; the double left and the double right.

The standard double left is performed by taking a step forward onto the left foot, another with the right, the left again, and then bringing right foot forward to meet the left. A double right is the same, but with opposite feet.

==Variants==

* [[Allemand double]]
* [[double left (branle)|Branle double left]]
* [[double right (branle)|Branle double right]]
* [[doppio]]

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Hearts ease

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'''Hearts Ease''' is a dance from [[Playford's Dancing Master]].

==Steps and Movements Used==

* [[Double]]s forward by the left foot and right ('''DL''' and '''DR''') and back ('''DLb''' and '''DRb''')
* [[Turn Other]] using either the left or right hands ('''ToL''' and '''ToR''')
* [[Sides]] ('''SdR''' and '''SdL''')
* [[Arms]] ('''AR''' and '''AL''')

==Choreography==

[[Image:forfour.PNG]]

This dance starts with two couples facing each other.

===First Verse===

:Couples do a double in to each other, then double back. Repeat

DL, DRb 
DL, DRb 

===Chorus===

:Everybody turns to face their partners, (a common variant here is to take the hand of their contrary), then double back and double forward. Taking right hands contraries turn each other. Turning face to face with contraries (and taking hands with partners in the variant), everybody does a double back and double forward. Taking left hands partners turn each other.

DLb, DR 
ToR 
DLb, DR 
ToL

===Second Verse===

:Sides by the right with patrners, then left with contraries.

SdR 
SdL

===Chorus===

As first chorus.

===Third Verse===

:Armings by the right with patrners, then left with contraries.

AR 
AL

===Chorus===

As first chorus.

==External Links==

* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/061small.html Instructions from 1561 edition]
* [http://sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/english_country_dance15.html Reconstruction from Del's Dance Book]

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Hearts ease

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'''Hearts Ease''' is a dance from [[Playford's Dancing Master]].

==Steps and Movements Used==

* [[Double]]s left and right ('''DL''' and '''DR''') and back ('''DLb''' and '''DRb''')
* [[Turn Other]] using either the left or right hands ('''ToL''' and '''ToR''')
* [[Sides]] ('''SdR''' and '''SdL''')
* [[Arms]] ('''AR''' and '''AL''')

==Choreography==

[[Image:forfour.PNG]]

This dance starts with two couples facing each other.

===First Verse===

:Couples do a double in to each other, then double back. Repeat

DL, DRb 
DL, DRb 

===Chorus===

:Everybody turns to face their partners, (a common variant here is to take the hand of their contrary), then double back and double forward. Taking right hands contraries turn each other. Turning face to face with contraries (and taking hands with partners in the variant), everybody does a double back and double forward. Taking left hands partners turn each other.

DLb, DR 
ToR 
DLb, DR 
ToL

===Second Verse===

:Sides by the right with patrners, then left with contraries.

SdR 
SdL

===Chorus===

As first chorus.

===Third Verse===

:Armings by the right with patrners, then left with contraries.

AR 
AL

===Chorus===

As first chorus.

==External Links==

* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/061small.html Instructions from 1561 edition]
* [http://sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/english_country_dance15.html Reconstruction from Del's Dance Book]

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English Country Dance

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'''English Country Dance''' is the common name for [[dance]]s propagated by [[John Playford]] and later his sons and other heirs in the book titled ''[[Playford's Dancing Master|The English Dancing Master]]'' (later renamed to ''The Dancing Master''). This style of dancing evolved in [[England]], and eventually spread to [[France]] and [[Germany]] and later to the [[New World]], and even [[Australia]]. Bush dances such as ''Strip the Willow'' are included in later editions of ''The English Dancing Master''.

It was published in 1651 and is theoretically outside of the [[SCA]] [[period]] but is commonly done in the [[SCA]] anyway. English Country Dance can be classified as early [[Baroque Dance]] rather than [[Renaissance Dance]], although it is not clear that the dances in The English Dancing-Master are more closely allied to most Baroque dances than to Renaissance dances. There are references to dances with some of the same names as those in ''Playford'' before 1600, although from the description of a couple of these it is clear that the dance was significantly different from those later printed by Playford.

Many of these dances are somewhat similar in form, often being for formations of two, three, or four couples, often consisting of what modern teachers often call a verse-and-chorus structure. The three "verse" sections are typically leading forward and back or circling two doubles around in the first verse, [[sides]] in the second, and [[arms (dance)|arms]] in the third. However, this is at best a general guideline.

There is also the '''[[Morris dance]]''', (originally ''[[Moor]]ish'') brought back during the [[Crusades|Crusading]] period, danced by small groups of men, bearing [[bell]]s, sticks, handerchiefs and the like, and frequently alleged to have been linked to certain [[England|English]] [[pagan]] [[tradition]]s. See ([[mundane]]ly) the works (''passim'') of '''[[wikipedia:Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett]]''', and accounts of the Helston Furry Dance, and the Padstow May Dance.

== Some English country dances ==

* '''[[Dances from Playford|List of dances from Playford]]'''

== External Links ==

* [http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/ Del's Dance Book], contains many English Country Dance reconstructions with their music.
* [http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~flip/contrib/dance/playford.html Transcription of the first edition of The English Dancing Master].

[[Category:dance]]

English Country Dance

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'''English Country Dance''' is the common name for [[dance]]s propagated by [[John Playford]] and later his sons and other heirs in the book titled ''[[Playford's Dancing Master|The English Dancing Master]]'' (later renamed to ''The Dancing Master''). This style of dancing evolved in [[England]], and eventually spread to [[France]] and [[Germany]] and later to the [[New World]], and even [[Australia]]. Bush dances such as ''Strip the Willow'' are included in later editions of ''The English Dancing Master''.

It was published in 1651 and is theoretically outside of the [[SCA]] [[period]] but is commonly done in the [[SCA]] anyway. English Country Dance can be classified as early [[Baroque Dance]] rather than [[Renaissance Dance]], although it is not clear that the dances in The English Dancing-Master are more closely allied to most Baroque dances than to Renaissance dances. There are references to dances with some of the same names as those in ''Playford'' before 1600, although from the description of a couple of these it is clear that the dance was significantly different from those later printed by Playford.

Many of these dances are somewhat similar in form, often being for formations of two, three, or four couples, often consisting of what modern teachers often call a verse-and-chorus structure. The three "verse" sections are typically leading forward and back or circling two doubles around in the first verse, [[sides]] in the second, and [[arms (dance)|arms]] in the third. However, this is at best a general guideline.

There is also the '''[[Morris dance]]''', (originally ''[[Moor]]ish'') brought back during the [[Crusades|Crusading]] period, danced by small groups of men, bearing [[bell]]s, sticks, handerchiefs and the like, and frequently alleged to have been linked to certain [[England|English]] [[pagan]] [[tradition]]s. See ([[mundane]]ly) the works (''passim'') of '''[[wikipedia:Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett]]''', and accounts of the Helston Furry Dance, and the Padstow May Dance.

== Some English country dances ==

* '''[[Dances from Playford|List of dances from Playford]]'''

* [[Dargason]]
* [[Gathering Peascods]]
* [[Heart's Ease]]
* [[Hyde Park]]
* [[If all the world were paper]]
* [[Jenny Plucks Pears]]
* [[Mage on a Cree]]
* [[Parsons Farewell]]
* [[Picking of Sticks]]
* [[Rufty Tufty]]
* [[Upon a Summer's Day]]

From the [[Carolingia|Carolingian]] dance book(?):
* [[Chestnut (dance)|Chestnut]]
* [[Grimstock]]

== External Links ==

* [http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/ Del's Dance Book], contains many English Country Dance reconstructions with their music.
* [http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~flip/contrib/dance/playford.html Transcription of the first edition of The English Dancing Master].

[[Category:dance]]

Playford's Dancing Master

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[[Image:Playford.PNG|right]]

'''The English Dancing Master''' by [[John Playford]] was first printed in 1651. This edition contained the tunes and (at times limited) instructions for 105 dances, and is the main source for [[English Country Dance]] in the SCA. The book was reprinted many times over the next 150 years, with new dances being added and old ones being removed as fashions changed.

==Playford in the SCA==

Despite the fact that Playford's book is out of [[period]], many dances from first addition are danced within the [[SCA]]. There are even a few dances that only appear in later editions, such as ''Strip the Willow'', that are danced in some regions.

==See Also==

*[[Dances from Playford]]
*[[Dance steps from Playford]]

===Offsite Links===

* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/ Facsimile of the 1651 edition]
* [http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~flip/contrib/dance/playford.html Transcription of the 1651 Edition]

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