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'''Febus''' is a [[15th Century Italian Dance]] which appears in seven different manuscripts. It is classified as a [[bassadanza]].

==Reconstruction==

This dance is performed by three people. The original instructions call for one man and two women. 

===Steps used===

* [[continentia]] left and right ('''CL''' and '''CR''')
* [[sempio]] left and right ('''SL''' and '''SR''')
* [[doppio]] left and right ('''DL''' and '''DR''')
* [[riverentia]] ('''Rv''')
* [[ripresa]] left and right ('''RpL''' and '''RpR''')
* [[mezavolta]] right ('''MzvR''')
* [[saltarello step|saltarello]] left and right ('''SlL''', '''SlR''')
* [[voltatonda]] left ('''VtL''')

===Choreography===

:The three dancers begin in a line, side by side facing up the hall, and holding hands. The man is standing in the centre.

:The dancers perform a continentia left and then right. They then perform two sempi, one doppio left and a ripresa right. This sequence is performed again, however while the women perform the final ripresa the man performs a mezavolta to face down the hall.

1 CL, CR<br>
2-3 SL, SR, DL<br>
4 RpR

5 CL, CR<br>
6-7 SL, SR, DL<br>
8 RpR (women) - MzvR (man)

:Everybody perfoms two dopi, so that the man moves away from the two women. Everybody perform a mezavolta to face each other again, and then perfome two sempi and two dopi, with the man passing between the two women. All perform a mezavolata right again, a ripresa left then right and a riverentia.

9-10 DL, DR<br>
11-12 MzvR, SL, SR<br>
13-14 DL, DR<br>
15-16 MzvR, RpL<br>
17-18 RpR, RvL

:With the man passing between the women again, all perform 2 saltarelli. Next perform another mezavolta to face each other again, and perform three ripresa, left, right and left. Perform a voltatonda by doing a sempi right and sempio right and a sempio left turing in a full circle over your left shoulder, and then perform a ripresa right.

19-20 SlR, SlL<br>
21-22 MzvR, RpL<br>
23-24 RpR, RpL<br>
25-27 VtL, RpR

:To complete the dance everybody performs two sempi to come into a straight line. The women then perform a mezavolta right. Joing hands everybody perform a ripresa left, a ripresa right and a riverenita left.

28-29 SL, SR, women MzvR<br>
30-31 RpL, RpR<br>
32 RvL

==Music==

This dance is 31 bars long, and so theoretically any bassadanza music 31 bars long should be able to be used for this.

* [[Media:febus.mid|A two part arrangement of music especially written for this dance in 2005]]
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