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====== Cheshire Rounds ======

Playford's Dancing Master of 1701.\\ 
Adapted by Charles Bolton in 2000.\\
Proper duple minor dance.
<code>
A1    1-4    W1 cast down around both 2s up to partner's place, M1 follows up middle to her place
A2    1-4    M2 cast up around both 1s, W2 follows
B1    1-2    1s cross go below, 2s two hand turn half, lead up
    3-4    Partner two hand turn
B2    1-4    Four changes of rights and lefts
</code>

music?\\
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lte3LiXo_Wg

More information on the dance:\\
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Cheshire_Rounds_(1)\\
"Cheshire Rounds" was a celebrated tune and dance sometimes danced by a couple (whose gyrations resembled the movements of the sun and moon) and sometimes by a single person. The only known portrait of Doggett (who founded the celebrated waterman's badge) shows him dancing the "Cheshire Round."